Top Ten Venues in SoCal History – #3 Staples Center
For the last two decades, The Staples Center has been home of the biggest pro-wrestling events in Los Angeles. In fact, the venue has already been home to more major…
Top Ten Venues in SoCal History
Top Ten Venues in SoCal History – #4 Hollywood Legion Stadium
Located at 1628 El Centro Avenue, the Hollywood Legion Stadium saw a who’s-who of the biggest stars of its day come through its doors, both in and out of the…
Top Ten Venues in SoCal History – #5 The San Diego Coliseum
#5 The San Diego Coliseum On April 5, 1938, a packed house in San Diego saw George Zaharias wrestle Killa Shikuma to a draw. Max Baer, the former boxing world heavyweight…
Top Ten Venues in SoCal History – #6 The San Bernardino Arena
#6 The San Bernardino Arena Professional wrestling had been promoted in the San Bernardino area since the 1800s. When the San Bernardino Athletic Club opened on May 28, 1897, in…
Top Ten Venues in SoCal History – #7 American Legion Post #308
#7 American Legion Post #308 For the last twenty years a small Legion hall on Canby Avenue in Reseda has been the site of some of the greatest (and strangest)…
Top Ten Venues in SoCal History – #8 The Bakersfield Dome
#8 The Bakersfield Dome Located at 22nd and V Street, Strelich Stadium , or The Bakersfield Dome as it is now known, has been the center of Bakersfield’s wrestling scene…
Top Ten Venues in SoCal History – #9 Ocean Park Arena
#9 – Ocean Park Arena In the 1930s, the place to find pro-wrestling on a Friday night was the Ocean Park Arena in Santa Monica. Located at 140 Pico Boulevard,…
Top Ten Venues in SoCal History – #10 The EWF Arena
Southern California has a long pro-wrestling history, stretching back well over a century. In that time there have been thousands of places that have housed a pro-wrestling in Southern California….