Wachovia Spectrum
Location	3601 S Broad St Philadelphia, PA 19148
Broke ground	June, 1966
Opened	October 19, 1967
Owner	Comcast-Spectator, L.P.
Operator	Global Spectrum
Construction cost	$7 million
Former names
The Spectrum (1967-1994) CoreStates Spectrum (1994-1998) First Union Spectrum (1998-2003)
Tenants
Philadelphia Phantoms (AHL) (1996-present) Philadelphia KiXX (MISL) (1995-present) Philadelphia Soul (Arena Football) (2004-present; Saturday home games) Philadelphia Flyers (NHL) (1967-1996) Philadelphia 76ers (NBA) (1967-1996) Philadelphia Wings (NLL) (1987-1996) Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Spectrum1. ... Comcast-Spectacor is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based sports and entertainment company. ... The Philadelphia Phantoms are an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. ... The Philadelphia Kixx is a soccer team, founded in 1995 as a NPSL expansion. ... Philadelphia (or Philly) soul, sometimes called the Philadelphia Sound, is a style of soul music characterized by lush instrumental arrangements often featuring sweeping strings and horns. ... The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Philadelphia Wings are a member of the National Lacrosse League, a professional sports league in North America, since the 1997-1998 season. ...
Capacity
18,169 (basketball) 17,380 (hockey & AFL)

The Wachovia Spectrum (formerly known as the Spectrum (1967-1994), CoreStates Spectrum (1994-1998) and First Union Spectrum (1998-2003)) is an indoor arena located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Completed in 1967, it seats 18,136 for basketball and 17,380 for ice hockey, arena football, indoor soccer, and indoor lacrosse. The following is a list of indoor arenas. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Look up Football in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... The Dive Shot. Lacrosse is a team sport that is played with either ten players (men field) six players (men box,indoor) or twelve players (women), each of whom uses a netted stick (the crosse) in order to pass and catch a very hard rubber ball with the aim of...

History

Opened as "The Spectrum" in the Fall of 1967, Philadelphia's first modern indoor sports arena was originally built to be the home of the expansion Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL, and also to accommodate the existing Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA. The building was the second major sports facility built at the South end of Broad Street in an area previously known as "East League Island Park" and now referred to simply as the South Philadelphia "Sports Complex." ARENA may refer to either: Nationalist Republican Alliance, a political party in El Salvador. ... The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... NHL redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... Broad Street is a major street in Philadelphia. ... South Philadelphia district, highlighted on map of Philadelphia County. ...

The Spectrum was conceived and built to accommodate expansion of the NHL into Philadelphia which was awarded an expansion team for the 1967-68 season. Ground was broken on the arena in June, 1966, and finished in 16 months at a cost of $7 million. The 76ers moved there from Convention Hall. On March 1, 1968, high winds blew a portion of the covering of the Spectrum's roof off during a performance of the Ice Capades forcing the building to close for a month while the damage was repaired. While the 76ers were able to move their home games to Convention Hall or to the Palestra, neither of those arenas had ice rinks at the time and there were no other NHL-quality sites in the Philadelphia area. Thus the Flyers hurriedly moved their next home game (against the Oakland Seals) to Madison Square Garden in New York followed by a meeting with the Boston Bruins played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto before establishing a base at Le Colisée in Quebec City, home of their top minor league team, the AHL Quebec Aces, for the remainder of their regular season home schedule. (The roof was repaired in time to permit the Flyers to return to the Spectrum to open their first ever Stanley Cup play-offs against the St. Louis Blues on April 4, 1968.) Because of its location the Flyers of the 1970s soon became popularly known as the "Broad Street Bullies." The 1967-68 NHL season was the 51st regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Philadelphia Civic Center was a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... The Ice Capades was a traveling entertainment show featuring theatrical performances involving ice skating. ... For the Greek and Roman sports arenas, see Palaestra The Palestra is a historic arena and the home gym of the University of Pennsylvania Quakers mens and womens basketball teams as well as the volleyball and wrestling teams at Penn. ... The Oakland Seals were a team in the National Hockey League (NHL). ... Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Maple Leaf Gardens, 2006 Exterior signage as of 2006, with letters missing Maple Leaf Gardens was an indoor arena in Toronto, on the northwest corner of Carlton Street and Church Street. ... Colisée Pepsi (formerly the Colisée de Québec) is an indoor arena in Quebec City, Quebec. ... Motto : « Don de Dieu feray valoir Â» (I shall put Gods gift to good use) Site in the province of Quebec Official logo Country  Canada Province Québec Agglomeration Quebec City Statute of the city Capitale-Nationale Administrative Region Capitale-Nationale Constitution date 1833 Geographical code 24 23027 Founder Foundation... The American Hockey League (AHL) is regarded as the top professional hockey league in North America outside the National Hockey League (NHL) for which it serves as the primary developmental circuit. ... The Quebec Aces are a defunct ice hockey franchise from Quebec, Quebec that played in the Quebec Senior Hockey League (1944-1953), Quebec Hockey League (1953-59) and American Hockey League (1959-71). ... The Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL), the major professional ice hockey league in Canada and the United States. ... The St. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...

The Flyers won their first Stanley Cup at the Spectrum on May 19, 1974, defeating the Boston Bruins, 1-0, in game six of the finals. Perhaps the most important and emotional hockey game -- or sporting event of any kind -- ever held there, however, came at the height of the Cold War on January 11, 1976, when the Flyers became the first NHL team to defeat (by 4-1) the then vaunted hockey team of the Soviet Central Red Army (ЦСКА)[1]. Ten NHL or NBA play-off championship series were hosted at the Spectrum with the Flyers competing in the Stanley Cup Finals in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1985, and 1987, and the 76ers playing in the NBA Finals in 1977, 1980, 1982, and 1983. The 1976 and 1992 NHL, and 1970 and 1976 NBA, All-Star Games were also held here. The AHL Phantoms also won their first Calder Cup title on Spectrum ice before a sell-out crowd of 17,380 on June 10, 1998, by defeating the Saint John Flames, 6-1. The Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL), the major professional ice hockey league in Canada and the United States. ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ... January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Image:Stanleycuptrophy. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Logo of the NBA Finals The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association, played under a best-of-seven playoff format. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... An all-star game is an exhibition game played by the best players in their respective sports league. ... The Calder Cup is awarded annually to the playoff champion of the American Hockey League. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... Saint John Flames logo, 1994-1998 The Saint John Flames were an American Hockey League team from 1993 to 2003 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. ...

The Spectrum is frequently used for many basketball tournaments, including Big Five games, eight Atlantic Ten Conference tournaments (1977, 1983, 1997-2002), the 1992 NCAA East Regional (site of the famous last-second shot by Christian Laettner of Duke to beat Kentucky), and the 1976 and 1981 Final Fours (both won by Bobby Knight's Indiana Hoosiers). Smaller conferences still prefer holding tournament games at this venue over the larger Center nearby. For other uses of the term Big Five and its variants, see Big five (disambiguation). ... The Atlantic 10 Conference (A10) is a college athletic conference which operates mostly on the United States eastern seaboard. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced N-C-Double-A ) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Christian Donald Laetnner // Laettner is especially known for his game-winning last-second jump shot in Dukes dramatic 104-103 victory over Kentucky in the East regional final of the 1992 NCAA Tournament, acclaimed by many as the greatest college basketball game ever played.[1] [2] [3] [4] Footage... Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Duke was founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, moved to Durham in 1892. ... The University of Kentucky, also referred to as UK, is a public, co-educational university located in Lexington, Kentucky. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Final Four is a sports term that is commonly applied to the last four teams remaining in a playoff tournament. ... Bob Knight Robert Montgomery (Bobby or Bob) Knight (born October 25, 1940 in Massillon, Ohio, USA), known as The General, is the head mens basketball coach at Texas Tech University. ... Indiana University is the principal campus of the Indiana University system. ...

The Spectrum was an important venue for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), due to the fact that Philadelphia was and still is a hotbed for wrestling. The WWF hosted shows on a more or less monthly basis for over fifteen years including SummerSlam in 1990, King of the Ring in 1995 and various live events featuring stars like Hulk Hogan. The Grateful Dead played the Spectrum 53 times, by far the most of any musical act. World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ... SummerSlam 1990 was the third annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by the World Wrestling Federation. ... King of the Ring logo (1999-present) King of the Ring is an annual World Wrestling Entertainment tournament first held in 1985. ... Terrence Gene “Terry” Bollea (born on August 11, 1953) is an American actor and semi-retired professional wrestler better known as Hulk Hogan. ... The Grateful Dead were an American rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. ...

Pink Floyd performed two nights at this venue on their 1977 Animals tour. On the second night, Floyd member Roger Waters fell ill and did most of the show after a painkiller injection. However, the painkiller wore off and was taken to the hospital and missed the final encore of "Us and Them" where second guitarist Snowy White had to fill in on bass guitar. Unbeknownst to the crowd, this was the first time that the rest of Pink Floyd (guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboard player Rick Wright) performed a song live without Waters (they would go on without him as of 1986). Roger's experience whilst performing ill at this venue would be documented on "Comfortably Numb". Pink Floyd are an English rock band that earned recognition for their psychedelic rock music, and, as they evolved, for their avant-garde progressive rock music. ... Animals is a concept album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on January 23, 1977 in the UK and on February 2 in the U.S.. Although the album proved a success in America, reaching #3 on the Billboard album charts, it got very little radio play, due to... George Roger Waters (born September 6, 1943) is an English rock musician; singer, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and composer. ... For the Shinedown album, see Us and Them (album) Us and Them is the seventh track[1] from British progressive rock band Pink Floyds 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon. ... Snowy White (born Terence Charles White, 3 March 1948, in Barnstaple, Devon) is an English guitarist, mostly known for having played for Thin Lizzy (permanent member from 1979 to 1981) and for Pink Floyd (as a back-up player; he was first invited to join the band through Europe and... David Jon Gilmour CBE (born March 6, 1946 in Cambridge) is an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a member of the band Pink Floyd. ... Nicholas Berkeley Nick Mason (born January 27, 1944 in Birmingham, England) is the drummer for Pink Floyd. ... Richard Wright, also known as Rick Wright (born July 28, 1945), is the keyboard player of Pink Floyd. ... Music sample: Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb (1979) ( file info) — 30 second sample of Comfortably Numb from the album The Wall (1979). ...

Although both the Flyers and 76ers moved across the parking lot to the new and larger Wachovia Center in 1996, the arena remains in place and is still used by the Philadelphia Phantoms of the AHL, the Philadelphia Kixx of the MISL, the Philadelphia Soul of the Arena Football League for Saturday home games, and a variety of other sporting events and concerts. The Wachovia Center (formerly known as the CoreStates Center and the First Union Center) is an indoor arena located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The Philadelphia Phantoms are an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. ... The American Hockey League (AHL) is regarded as the top professional hockey league in North America outside the National Hockey League (NHL) for which it serves as the primary developmental circuit. ... The Philadelphia Kixx is a soccer team, founded in 1995 as a NPSL expansion. ... Misl refers to a fighting clan. ... Philadelphia (or Philly) soul, sometimes called the Philadelphia Sound, is a style of soul music characterized by lush instrumental arrangements often featuring sweeping strings and horns. ... The Arena Football League (AFL) (not to be confused with The Australian Football League) was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. ...

The four decade old Wachovia Spectrum (center), the oldest (1967) of the four venues which now make up Philadelphia's massive "Sports Complex," Citizens Bank Park (right), its newest (2004) facility, tree lined S. Broad St. (left), and the city's expansive skyline along the horizon to the North, as viewed from the roof of the Wachovia Center (1997). (Composite panoramic digital image by DigitalImageServices.com,)

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The Spectrum's "Sports Complex" Neighbors

The Spectrum is now the oldest of the four currently existing arenas and stadiums (of the six built overall between 1926 and 2004) which make up Philadelphia's massive "Sports Complex" located at the South end of Broad Street. The Complex now occupies roughly a quarter of the 1926 site of Philadelphia's Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, a massive 184-day World's Fair which ran from May 31 to November 30, 1926, on grounds bounded by 10th Street, Packer Ave., 23rd Street, and the U.S. Navy Yard (Terminal Avenue). The Spectrum now occupies the portion of the original Exposition grounds located on the south side of Pattison Avenue between Broad and 11th Streets that in 1926 was the site of the fair's expansive main trolley station operated by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... The Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition of 1926 was a worlds fair hosted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and the 50th anniversary of the 1876 Centennial Exposition. ... Worlds Fair is any of various large expositions held since the mid-19th century. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... SEPTA redirects here. ...

When opened in 1967, the Spectrum sat just north of the then existing 100,000+ seat John F. Kennedy Stadium (originally known from 1926 to 1964 as "Municipal Stadium"^[1]) which had been built more than four decades earlier (opened April 15, 1926). On September 23, 1926, an announced crowd of 120,557 packed the then new Stadium -- in the rain -- to witness Gene Tunney capture the world's heavyweight boxing title from Jack Dempsey, and for decades the monolith also served as the "neutral" venue for a total of 42 annual Army-Navy Games. JFK Stadium was demolished in 1992 to make way for a new indoor arena, the Wachovia Center, which opened in August, 1996. Originally known as the "CoreStates Center" (1996-1998) and then the "First Union Center" (1998-2003), the 20,000+ seat facility replaced the Spectrum as home to the NHL Philadelphia Flyers, NBA Philadelphia 76ers and NLL Philadelphia Wings. 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... JFK Stadium (1925-1992) John F. Kennedy Stadium (originally known as Philadelphia Municipal Stadium, later also referred to as JFK Stadium) was an open-air stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that stood from 1925 to 1992. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... James Joseph Gene Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-28 who defeated Jack Dempsey in 1926 and 1927 in what became known as The Long Count Fight and retired undefeated after winning against Tom Heeney in 1928. ... William Harrison Jack Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983) was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title between 1919 and 1926, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest champions of all time. ... The Army-Navy Game, an annual college football game generally played on the last weekend of the regular season in early December, pits the football teams of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York (Army), and the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland (Navy), against one... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The Wachovia Center (formerly known as the CoreStates Center and the First Union Center) is an indoor arena located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ... The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... NLL redirects here. ... The Philadelphia Wings are a member of the National Lacrosse League, a professional sports league in North America, since the 1997-1998 season. ...

For thirty-three years, Veterans Stadium (opened 1971, closed 2003, demolished 2004), the third facility built at the complex to accommodate the MLB Philadelphia Phillies and NFL Philadelphia Eagles, was located immediately north of the Spectrum directly across Pattison Avenue. The "Vet" was replaced by two new facilities: a purpose built football/soccer stadium, Lincoln Financial Field (opened 2003), which is located directly across 11th Street from the Wachovia Center, and a new dedicated baseball stadium, Citizens Bank Park (opened 2004), located at the northeast corner of Pattison Ave. and Citizens Bank Way (11th St.) immediately east of the former Veterans Stadium site which is now occupied by a parking lot for the sports complex. Philadelphia Veterans Stadium (or The Vet) was located at the northeast corner of Broad Street and Pattison Avenue in Philadelphia. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in North America. ... Major league affiliations National League (1883–present) East Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1,14,20,32,36,42 Name Philadelphia Phillies (1883–present) unofficially Philadelphia Blue Jays (1944-1945) Philadelphia Quakers (1882) (Commonly referred to as Blue Jays 1944-1945 despite formal name remaining Phillies) Ballpark Citizens... NFL logo For other uses of the abbreviation NFL, see NFL (disambiguation). ... City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Team colors Midnight Green, Black, White, and Silver Head Coach Andy Reid Owner Jeffrey Lurie General manager Tom Heckert Fight song Fly, Eagles Fly Mascot Swoop League/Conference affiliations National Football League (1933–present) Eastern Division (1933-1949) American Conference (1950-1952) Eastern Conference (1953-1969) Capitol... Lincoln Financial Field, familiarly known as The Linc, is the home stadium of the National Football Leagues Philadelphia Eagles. ... Citizens Bank Park is a 43,500-seat baseball-only stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that opened on April 3, 2004 and hosted its first regular season baseball game on April 12. ...

The "Rocky" Statue

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A statue of Sylvester Stallone, depicting him in his famous role of Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa, stood for many years in front of the main (Pattison Avenue) entrance of the Spectrum which had been represented in the movie to be the site of Rocky's first and second fights with Apollo Creed. (The arena in which the fight sequences were actually filmed was the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.) The statue was removed several times over the years to be used in the filming of sequels to the original film. In September, 2006, however, it was given a permanent new home in an area near the base of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art not far from where it had appeared in a spot on the plaza at the top of the Museum's steps in the original movie. Liberty Bell; public domain. ... Sylvester Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an American Academy Award-nominated actor, director, producer and screenwriter. ... Professional boxing bout featuring Ricardo Domínguez (left) versus Rafael Ortíz Boxing, called pugilism (from Latin), prizefighting (when referring to professional boxing) or the sweet science[1] is a sport and martial art in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists in a series... Rocky is a 1976 film written by and starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by John G. Avildsen. ... The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena is an indoor arena in Los Angeles, California. ... The Philadelphia Museum of Art, located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphias Fairmount Park, was founded in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year and is now among the largest and most important art museums in the United States. ...

Notable Events

• NBA All-Star Game, 1970
• NHL Stanley Cup Finals, 1974
• NHL Stanley Cup Finals, 1975
• NHL All-Star Game, 1976
• NBA All-Star Game, 1976
• NCAA Tournament, Men's Final Four, 1976 (won by Indiana University)
• NHL Stanley Cup Finals, 1976
• NBA Finals, 1977
• NHL Stanley Cup Finals, 1980
• NBA Finals, 1980
• NCAA Tournament, Men's Final Four, 1981 (won by Indiana University)
• NBA Finals, 1982
• NBA Finals, 1983
• NHL Stanley Cup Finals, 1985
• NHL Stanley Cup Finals, 1987
• MILL Championship, 1989
• WWF SummerSlam '90, 1990
• NHL All-Star Game, 1992
• NCAA Tournament, East Regional (won by Duke University), 1992
• MILL Championship, 1992
• MILL Championship, 1994
• MILL Championship, 1995
• WWF King of the Ring, 1995
• AHL Calder Cup Finals, 1998
• NPSL Championship, 2001
• MISL Championship, 2002

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References

1. ^ E.L Austin and Odell Hauser. The Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (Chapter XXX "MUNICIPAL STADIUM") pp 419-423; Philadelphia, PA (1929). 

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