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Roberto Clemente Coliseum
Location	Roosevelt Ave. San Juan, Puerto Rico
Opened	February, 1973
Owner	San Juan Municipality
Operator	San Juan Municipality
Tenants
Capacity
18,000+

The Roberto Clemente Coliseum (or Coliseo Roberto Clemente in Spanish) is a sporting events and concert arena in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was, for many years, Puerto Rico's largest event facility, and it continues being one of the largest. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 467 pixelsFull resolution (2297 × 1341 pixel, file size: 856 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... For other uses, see San Juan. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... For other uses, see San Juan. ... For other uses, see San Juan. ... For other uses, see San Juan. ...

General information

The Coliseum is named after baseball hall of famer Roberto Clemente, who died in a plane crash off Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina in 1972, while flying with relief articles to be given to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. Construction of the facility began in the early 1970s, it was finished in January 1973, and inaugurated in February of that year by the Fania All Stars. This article is about the sport. ... Roberto Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Major League Baseball right fielder and right-handed batter. ... SJU redirects here. ... Nickname: Gentilic: Carolinenses Location Location of Carolina, Puerto Rico within Puerto Rico Coordinates , , Government Founded Mayor José Aponte, Jr. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ...

The coliseum has been host to a variety of events, including world championship boxing and basketball, business expos, circus, concerts and other things. Many Puerto Rican and international performers have been there, including Antonio Aguilar, Menudo, Marco Antonio Solis, Saga, Wilkins, Whitesnake, Duran Duran, Mötley Crüe, Kiss, and others. It has been the home of three different BSN professional basketball teams and the BSN has also used it as a neutral site for their most important games, including game 7 of the championship finals, several times. For other senses of these words, see boxing (disambiguation) or boxer (disambiguation). ... This article is about the sport. ... Pascual Antonio Aguilar Barraza (May 17, 1919 – June 19, 2007), also known as Tony Aguilar, was a Mexican singer, actor, producer, and writer. ... This article concerns the boy band Menudo. ... Marco Antonio Solis is a Mexican singer. ... Saga is a progressive rock quintet, formed in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. ... Wilkins or Wilkin is a name variant of William (name). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Duran Duran are an English pop group notable for a long series of popular singles and vivid music videos. ... Mötley Crüe (pronounced Motley Crew) is an American Hard Rock band from Los Angeles, California. ... Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973. ... The National Superior Basketball League of Puerto Rico —or Liga Baloncesto Superior Nacional De Puerto Rico (BSN) in Spanish— was established in 1933 and has produced a handful of Puerto Ricos larger towns. ... This article is about the sport. ...

The Coliseum has also been used by religious leaders for conferences and religious services.

Most of the world championship boxing bouts fought in Puerto Rico during the late 1970s and early 1980s were fought at the Roberto Clemente coliseum, including Roberto Duran's world title defense versus Mexican Leoncio Ortiz, Wilfredo Gómez's knockout win against Carlos Zarate, many of Samuel Serrano's title defenses, and the fight where Muhammad Ali defended his title against Jean Pierre Coopman, the only time a world Heavyweight championship fight has been held in Puerto Rico. George Foreman had his last fight (and experienced the vision that led him to become a born-again Christian in one of its dressing rooms) before announcing his first retirement there, and Julio César Chávez had one of his first important fights there, on the undercard of Edwin Rosario's world Lightweight championship win against Jose Luis Ramirez. Because of all the boxing action going on during that era, many observers call the period from the middle '70s to the middle '80s as the golden age of boxing in Puerto Rico. Roberto Duran (b. ... Wilfredo Gómez (born October 29, 1956) is a former boxer and three time world champion. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Samuel Serrano (born November 7, 1952), nicknamed Sammy and El Torbellino, is a Puerto Rican who won boxings world jr. ... For other persons named Muhammad Ali, see Muhammad Ali (disambiguation). ... George Edward Foreman (born January 10, 1949) is an American two-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion. ... In Christianity, the term born again or regenerated is synonymous with spiritual rebirth—salvation. ... For this mans son, also a boxer, see Julio César Chávez, Jr. ... Edwin El Chapo Rosario (1961-1997) could be considered a boxing version of the Puerto Rican plant Mori-vivi (Mori-Vivi means dead-alive in Spanish). ... José Luis Ramírez (born circa 1960) is a Mexican national who was a boxer and a two time world Lightweight champion. ...

The Clemente coliseum has also been the place of large political rallies, and Puerto Rico's electoral commission uses its facilities to count votes after each election.

See also

• List of notable Puerto Rican buildings and structures.