Bojangles Coliseum

Right.

So that's, you know, I mean, you know, the ticket prices are bigger and the dolls are in Walmart, but you don't have heat and you don't have 10,000 people in the Mid-South Coliseum every Monday night or Charlotte Coliseum or whatever repeatedly over and over until Dusty finally wins, the rock and roll finally wins, Jerry Lawler finally wins.

You could run the same match in a town 13 weeks in a row until a babyface won.

Now it's, okay, we saw that one, we'll wait until they do something else.

But see, once again, Dusty did not micromanage because he booked talent that he knew could draw money and sell tickets.

So he wouldn't sit down with you and for 20 minutes drill into your head, you've got to say this and this and this and this and this.

He would say, okay, last time at the Charlotte Coliseum, It was no disqualification, and Cornette, you rolled in.

You whacked Ricky Morton with the racket, so this time they've asked for a cage.

so good.

Well, let's talk about it because this episode of WCW Nitro took place at the Independence Arena.

In beautiful Charlotte, North Carolina, the Queen City.

Yes, you have to salute when you walk in the doors of the Independence Arena.

Are they promoting independence? Is that like a company? Is that an A.I.

company? Oh, I hope so.

I don't know.

Attendance of around 6,000 with a rating of 3.3. Just the facts.

Greg Valentine and Tully Blanchard were both in the 89 Rumble.

March 18th, 1984, in North Carolina in Charlotte, at the Charlotte Coliseum, Greg Valentine and Wahoo McDaniel defeated Don Cronodle and Tully Blanchard in a tag match.

And the only other time they ever touched, Tully Blanchard and Tiger Conway Jr. lost.

This was September 28th of 1977 to Greg Valentine and also Horseman member Ric Flair.

A lot of familiar faces still on that roster too.

So yeah, They should be walking into the Bojangles Coliseum, home of Greasy Keys, my favorite AHL guy.

I love Greasy Keys.

They should be walking in there with a little bit of swagger, a little bit of chip on their shoulder.

Um, and those, uh, man, those workouts, it was even worse than, cause I used to go to them as a kid and dad would hold them.

down at the Coliseum when they had run on a Saturday night, they'd have, I guess you'd have, usually, I guess it was corn like bill would have the ring set up early and they would do workouts there, make them run the back of the old Charlotte Coliseum, Bojangles arena.

Now, and you know, I'd be like eight, nine, 10 years old and they would beat the shit out of these guys.

And, Um, I mean, I just remember hearing squealing and I hate, like I would go somewhere cause I just like, it was too much for me as a kid to see, you know, but that was dad's way of making me tough, you know? Um, and then of course, yeah, like I said, when I finally started getting in there, I got called so many names by my dad for, you know, just doing amateur removes and not like trying to like kind of, injure the guy you know because I mean they want to protect the business and you know if they saw something in somebody but if it was just somebody that was sitting on the couch and said hey I can be a wrestler and they knew that they would punish him and he'd go home and know okay this is not what I thought it was these guys are for real that's how they protected the business

... and, you know, and those type events.

And, and to be honest, it, the, the pe- the places like the old Charlotte Coliseum, and Greensboro, and Atlanta, the buildings that were, like, 10,000, 12,000 seat capacity, for me, that was the biggest electricity that you could have.

Because they could be so loud, it turned into, like, a white noise.

It's so loud it w- it, it, it...

The show draws more than 100,000 visitors a year.

The project also creates a parking challenge for Bojangles Coliseum and Ovens Auditorium, which rely on about 2,000 nearby parking spaces currently located at the Park Expo property.

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Championship Wrestling is a weekly sports spectacular under the management and promotion of Jim Crockett.

Matches are presented each Monday evening at either the Charlotte Park Center or Charlotte Coliseum.

This program is subject to change.

The promoter is not responsible if contestants fail to appear in the ring due to conditions beyond control, and reserves the right to change the order of events.

But the most confusing part, if there was one, out of all this, people are asking, why is it that the county is loaning money for otter habitats and things like that? For me, and Larkin...

he can parse this out all he wants, but I think a pretty good analogy that kind of clears that up is this is the county's building, right? Has been, is they, they, it's just like the city owns Bojangles Coliseum.

And while they might outsource some of the management to CRVA, They have a tenant who's responsible for a lot of the operations, and that's Charlotte Checkers.

When there was a leak in the roof, unexpectedly, nobody was like, oh, Charlotte Checkers, we'll give you a loan that you can pay back to fix our roof.