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Paycom Center (previously Ford Center, Oklahoma City Arena and Chesapeake Energy Arena) is a multi-purpose arena, located in downtown Oklahoma City.
It is the home of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder. The arena also served as home for the CHL's Oklahoma City Blazers, until the team folded in July 2009, as well as the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz arena football team, which relocated to the Cox Convention Center. Of special note, it served as the temporary home for the NBA's New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets, during the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons.
It also plays host to major concerts, family and social events, conventions, ice shows, civic events and sporting events from local universities and high schools.
It has hosted many WWE events such as Raw, SmackDown, and Unforgiven 2005. A record-setting Raw was held in the arena on June 30, 2008 with 11,560 fans on hand. This was the most WWE tickets sold in Oklahoma in WWE history. Raw came to the Chesapeake Energy Arena on September 25, 2006 and March 1, 2010 with Cheech & Chong appearing as the evening's guest hosts. During the show on September 25, 2006, the opening of the show suffered a blackout, but lights were restored shortly after the night began. The March 1 show was the first-ever WWE sell out of the Chesapeake Energy Arena with 14,708 fans on hand. Also on October 1, 2010, WWE came back to the Chesapeake Energy Arena to do the first live SmackDown on Syfy. WWE returned in March 2011 to do a Raw house show. WWE came back to do a live Raw SuperShow on October 10, 2011. WWE returned for a Raw SuperShow on February 6, 2012.
Events[]
- RAW - December 23, 2002
- Heat - December 29, 2002
- SmackDown - April 29, 2004
- Velocity - May 1, 2004
- RAW - January 24, 2005
- Heat - September 18, 2005
- Unforgiven 2005 - September 18, 2005
- RAW - September 25, 2006
- Heat - September 29, 2006
- RAW - June 30, 2008
- RAW - March 1, 2010
- SmackDown - October 1, 2010
- RAW - October 10, 2011
- RAW - February 6, 2012
- RAW - October 1, 2012
- Main Event - February 27, 2013
- SmackDown - March 1, 2013
- Saturday Morning Slam - March 23, 2013
- RAW - December 2, 2013
- Superstars - December 6, 2013
- Main Event - December 2, 2014
- SmackDown - December 5, 2014
- RAW - July 27, 2015
- Superstars - July 30, 2015
- RAW - June 6, 2016
- Superstars - June 9, 2016
- RAW - January 21, 2019
- Main Event - January 23, 2019
- RAW - January 6, 2020
- Main Event - January 8, 2020
- RAW - August 30, 2021
- Main Event - September 2, 2021
- SmackDown - February 4, 2022
- RAW - October 17, 2022
- Main Event - October 20, 2022
- RAW - October 16, 2023
- Main Event - October 19, 2023
- SmackDown - September 27, 2024
- Speed - October 2, 2024
