Nashville Municipal Auditorium
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| Location | 417 Fourth Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
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| Coordinates | 36°10′03.29″N 86°46′56.08″W / 36.1675806°N 86.7822444°WCoordinates: 36°10′03.29″N 86°46′56.08″W / 36.1675806°N 86.7822444°W |
| Owner | Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County, Tennessee |
| Operator | Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County, Tennessee |
| Capacity | 9,700 in the round, 8,000 (basketball), 9,432 reserved in the round |
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Hockey - 85x185 ft Basketball - 120x60 ft |
| Surface | concrete |
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| Broke ground | 1959 |
| Built | 1959–1962 |
| Opened | October 7, 1962 |
| Renovated | 1993 |
| Construction cost | $5 million dollars |
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Nashville Dixie Flyers (EHL) (1962–1971) Nashville South Stars (CHL) (1981–1983) Nashville Knights (ECHL) (1989–1996) Nashville Stars (WBL) (1991) Nashville Nighthawks/Ice Flyers (CHL) (1996–1998) Nashville Noise (ABL) (1998) Belmont Bruins (NCAA) (2001–2003) Nashville Rollergirls (WFTDA) (2006–present) Nashville Venom (PIFL) (2014–2015) |
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The Nashville Municipal Auditorium is an indoor sports and concert venue in Nashville, Tennessee, which also houses the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum. Constructed in 1962, the Auditorium was the first public assembly facility in the Mid South with air conditioning.
The NMA hosted the 1994 United States Gymnastic Championships as well as the 1996 Tour of World Figure Skating Championships. The Auditorium has hosted minor league hockey, with the teams known as the Dixie Flyers, South Stars, Knights, Nighthawks, and Nashville Ice Flyers. It has also hosted minor league basketball – the former Nashville Stars and Music City Jammers, and women's professional basketball – the Nashville Noise of the former (Women's) American Basketball League. It was a home court for the Belmont University basketball teams while Striplin Gym was demolished to make way for the Curb Event Center. Additionally, the NMA has hosted several Ohio Valley Conference basketball tournaments, and the Auditorium hosted the OVC again in 2008. From 2011 to 2015, the NMA again hosted the men's and women's OVC basketball tournaments in a new four-day tournament format, subsequently reduced back to a three-day affair featuring only the top eight teams for 2016 and 2017. The capacity is set around 8,000 during these tournaments. It currently hosts the annual Magnet Madness basketball game between rivals Hume-Fogg High School and Martin Luther King Magnet.
Many Professional wrestling events were hosted in the arena including the NWA's Wrestle War 89 which featured a world title change and voted match of the year by PWI, Ric Flair vesus Ricky Steamboat. It also was the home for the World Wrestling Federation's No Holds Barred: The Match/The Movie PPV special held in December 1989 as well as the World Wrestling Federation's second In Your House PPV in 1995. It was a favorite venue over the years for World Championship Wrestling, which hosted its supercard show Starrcade there from 1994 to 1996 and its final Clash of the Champions show there in 1997, as well as its penultimate pay-per-view event, SuperBrawl Revenge, in 2001. Masato Tanaka won his only ECW Heavyweight Championship by defeating Mike Awesome at Municipal at an ECW on TNN taping in December 1999. Total Nonstop Action Wrestling held their first events there June 2002 before moving to the Tennessee State Fairgrounds. The arena also hosted TNA Wrestling's TNA Slammiversary in June 2007 and Lockdown pay-per-view on April 15, 2012.
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