Kia Forum
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Sep 13, 2026
Ric FlairSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Make them pay.
Ric FlairSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Because you can bet your life on this, I'm not walking into the Los Angeles Forum with Debra Schel de Merm- Jack Nicholson leading the way.
Ric FlairSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Magic, James, and Kareem sitting in the front row-
Jim CornetteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah
Ben MallerHOST
It was like half the season before being excommunicated Barry Melrose.
Ben MallerHOST
At that time, I was a teenage reporter who occasionally, didn't do it all the time, occasionally was assigned to the Fabulous Forum.
Ben MallerHOST
wandering around with a microphone and enough confidence which i don't have anymore to compensate for the fact that i absolutely had no idea what i was doing the fake it till you make it situation belong there and a hockey guy and but yet i was out there and i I remember that year because it was kind of a big deal because I watched the Kings in the Stanley Cup a couple years earlier than that.
Ben MallerHOST
And so I stuck that microphone in Barry Melrose's face when I was out covering the Kings.
David McLaneGUEST
One half of caged heat.
David McLaneGUEST
And what a tag team championship they had at the Great Western Forum with all the popping pyro and explosions when they won the first ever tag team championship of WOW.
Nigel ZaneHOST
That is amazing.
Nigel ZaneHOST
I cannot wait for that.
Ben MallerHOST
It was like half the season before being excommunicated Barry Melrose.
Ben MallerHOST
At that time, I was a teenage reporter who occasionally, didn't do it all the time, occasionally was assigned to the Fabulous Forum.
Ben MallerHOST
wandering around with a microphone and enough confidence, which I don't have anymore, to compensate for the fact that I absolutely had no idea what I was doing.
Ben MallerHOST
The fake it till you make it situation belonged there.
Mike TenaySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
...
Mike TenaySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
in Los Angeles, and tickets are available at the Great Western Forum box office and Ticketmaster.
Mike TenaySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then it's my hometown, Nitro, Monday June the 30th in Las Vegas, the MGM Grand Garden box office, all Ticketmaster outlets as well in Vegas.
Mike TenaySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Big, big month of June for WCW.
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Bobby HeenanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
World-class arm wrestling champion.
Tony SchiavoneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One of the strongest ever.
Tony SchiavoneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Once again, a very special hello to our great fans in Southern California, in Los Angeles, the Great Western Forum.
Tony SchiavoneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They're gonna be part of the scene on a very special Saturday night, June 29th.
Karlyn BatheHOST
Yeah, I was like six months old.
John KellyGUEST
But the bottom line is the old arenas, the old rinks, including the Great Western Forum.
Karlyn BatheHOST
Yeah.
John KellyGUEST
The broadcast positions were much lower, much better nowadays.
Paul Francis SullivanHOST
He doesn't have to buy the land that he has in Anaheim.
Paul Francis SullivanHOST
There's plenty of land to buy that he already owns to develop a stadium and to develop that area around Inglewood that would include what used to be The Great Western Forum, which is where the, you know, the Showtime Lakers played, and it's now a giant music venue.
Paul Francis SullivanHOST
And that's where the massive football stadium is.
Paul Francis SullivanHOST
It could become an athletic center, build the apartments, build a city within a city in Inglewood.
Miles GrayHOST
I think any person can probably draw a line through their experience being a lover of their sports team in their city.
Miles GrayHOST
I grew up being able to go to the Great Western Forum to see the Lakers play.
Miles GrayHOST
When they moved and the money got a little bit tighter, I went to the sports arena to catch a Clippers game because I wanted to see NBA basketball and I could get to see like Dominique Wilkins when he played for the Clippers.
Miles GrayHOST
Charles Smith for a second.
Kevin SheehanHOST
My number one is a runaway number one.
Kevin SheehanHOST
And that is Marvin Gaye from the 83 All-Star game in the LA Forum.
Paul CharchianGUEST
Well, we're going the other two other directions.
Paul CharchianGUEST
I'm going...
Eleanor KerriganGUEST
compare
Nigel ZaneHOST
those two pressures? I said, can you compare those two pressures? So you're opening up for Dice Clay, but in the other aspect of your life, you were having your first professional wrestling match theater in the round at the Kia Forum or the Great Western Forum as it was back then.
Eleanor KerriganGUEST
Where the Lakers were playing, the Sparks were playing.
Eleanor KerriganGUEST
Michael Cooper was their coach at the time.
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