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The Smoothie King Center (formerly New Orleans Arena) is an indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is located in the city's Central Business District, adjacent to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
It has been home to the New Orleans Pelicans of the NBA since 2002, and is also home to some Tulane University basketball games as well as some high school basketball games and other special events. The now-defunct New Orleans Brass of the ECHL played in the New Orleans Arena their last three seasons before their demise in 2002. Since February 2004, the New Orleans VooDoo, of the Arena Football League (AFL), played their home games in the arena until the team folded in 2008. The VooDoo resumed play at the Arena in March 2011.
The arena was completed in 1999 at a cost of $114 million and officially opened on October 29, 1999. The Brass was the main tenant for its first three years until the team was forced to fold after Hornets management demanded priority upon moving. The arena seats 19,000 for concerts, over 18,500 for Hornets games and 16,500 for arena football and has 2,538 club seats and 56 luxury suites.
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- Monday Nitro - December 13, 1999
- SmackDown - August 24, 2000
- Heat - August 27, 2000
- Heat - January 21, 2001
- Royal Rumble - January 21, 2001
- SmackDown - December 20, 2001
- Heat - December 23, 2001
- SmackDown - September 4, 2003
- Velocity - September 6, 2003
- ECW - July 10, 2007
- SmackDown - July 13, 2007
- RAW - July 7, 2008
- RAW - January 5, 2009
- ECW - January 6, 2009
- Extreme Rules - June 7, 2009
- RAW - December 13, 2010
- Hell in a Cell - October 2, 2011
- RAW - May 28, 2012
- Elimination Chamber - February 17, 2013
- RAW - April 7, 2014
- Superstars - April 11, 2014
- RAW - January 12, 2015
- Superstars - January 15, 2015
- RAW - June 8, 2015
- Superstars - June 11, 2015
- RAW - January 11, 2016
- Superstars - January 14, 2016
- RAW - June 13, 2016
- Superstars - June 16, 2016
- RAW - January 9, 2017
- Main Event - January 10, 2017
- SmackDown Live - June 13, 2017
- 205 Live - June 13, 2017
- NXT TakeOver: New Orleans - April 7, 2018
- RAW - April 9, 2018
- SmackDown Live - April 10, 2018
- 205 Live - April 10, 2018
- Main Event - April 11, 2018
- NXT - April 11, 2018
- RAW - September 10, 2018
- Main Event - September 12, 2018
- SmackDown Live - February 19, 2019
- 205 Live - February 19, 2019
- RAW - August 26, 2019
- Main Event - August 28, 2019
- SmackDown - February 11, 2022
- SmackDown - February 18, 2022
- SmackDown - October 14, 2022
- SmackDown - July 28, 2023
- RAW - January 22, 2024
- Main Event - January 25, 2024
