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==Cobo Arena==
{{Infobox venue
| name = Cobo Arena
| image = CoboArena2.jpg
| built = 1960
| closed = 2010
| capacity = 12,000
| tenants = [[Detroit Pistons]] ([[National Basketball Association|NBA]]) (1961–1978)<br>[[NCAA Division I Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships]] ([[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]]) (1965–1981)<br>[[Detroit Loves]] ([[World Team Tennis|WTT]]) (1974)<br>[[Michigan Stags]] ([[World Hockey Association|WHA]]) (1974–1975)<br>[[Detroit Mercy Titans men's basketball|Detroit Mercy Titans]] (NCAA) (1989–1994; 1997–1999)<br>[[Detroit Ambassadors]] ([[Ontario Hockey League|OHL]]) (1990–1992)<br>[[Detroit Rockers]] ([[National Professional Soccer League (1984–2001)|NPSL]]) (1990–2001)<br>[[Motor City Mustangs]] ([[Roller Hockey International|RHI]]) (1995)<br>[[Detroit Dogs]] ([[American Basketball Association (2000–present)|ABA]]) (2000–2001)
}}

'''Cobo Arena''' was an arena built in 1960 with seating for 12,000 that served as the home court of the [[Detroit Pistons]] of the [[National Basketball Association]] from 1961 to 1978 and the host of the [[NCAA Division I Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships]] from 1965 to 1981.<ref name=Kit/><ref>{{cite web| first=Daniel| last=McFadin| title=A half-century of memories| url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/trackfield-indoor-men/50th-di-mitf/2014-02-21/half-century-memories| website=[[NCAA]]| date=February 21, 2014| access-date=August 26, 2019| archive-date=August 26, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826205921/https://www.ncaa.com/news/trackfield-indoor-men/50th-di-mitf/2014-02-21/half-century-memories| url-status=live}}</ref> The short-lived [[Michigan Stags]] of the [[World Hockey Association]] and the [[Detroit Loves]] of [[World TeamTennis]] called Cobo Arena home in 1974, as did the [[Detroit Rockers]] of the [[National Professional Soccer League (1984–2001)|National Professional Soccer League]], the [[Detroit Mercy Titans]] basketball team of the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]], and the [[Motor City Mustangs]] of [[Roller Hockey International]].<ref>{{cite news| title=Detroit Loves sign No. 1 pick, Casals| url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=29671528&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjIxMDIxMzMxNCwiaWF0IjoxNjE1ODUyMzI3LCJleHAiOjE2MTU5Mzg3Mjd9.RugXgE3aFPol_prZBr7hq3GeKM3j1NawLvMSdSaeSMs| newspaper=[[The Times Herald]]| location=Port Huron| date=November 7, 1973| access-date=March 16, 2021| archive-date=August 7, 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807233224/https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=29671528&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjIxMDIxMzMxNCwiaWF0IjoxNjE1ODUyMzI3LCJleHAiOjE2MTU5Mzg3Mjd9.RugXgE3aFPol_prZBr7hq3GeKM3j1NawLvMSdSaeSMs| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| first=Larry| last=O'Connor| title=Finnerty family sees soccer legacy remain in safe hands| url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/soccer/2019/05/08/finnerty-family-sees-soccer-legacy-remain-safe-hands/1125151001/| newspaper=The Detroit News| date=May 8, 2019| access-date=March 16, 2021| archive-date=July 28, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728172337/https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/soccer/2019/05/08/finnerty-family-sees-soccer-legacy-remain-safe-hands/1125151001/| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| first=Milt| last=Northrop| title=RHI TAKES SMALL STEP BACK ROLLER HOCKEY LEAGUE SHRINKS BY FIVE TEAMS| url=https://buffalonews.com/news/rhi-takes-small-step-back-roller-hockey-league-shrinks-by-five-teams/article_c048bc66-a07a-54fa-a21d-8b6df99b2ad0.html| newspaper=[[The Buffalo News]]| date=June 1, 1995| access-date=March 16, 2021| archive-date=November 2, 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102073653/https://buffalonews.com/news/rhi-takes-small-step-back-roller-hockey-league-shrinks-by-five-teams/article_c048bc66-a07a-54fa-a21d-8b6df99b2ad0.html| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=Mike| last1=Stone| first2=Art| last2=Regner| title=The Great Book of Detroit Sports Lists| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FzhXDgAAQBAJ|year=2008| page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FzhXDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT44&lpg=PT44 44]| publisher=Running Press| isbn=978-0-7867-4171-7}}</ref>

Cobo also hosted rock concerts, by such artists as [[Van Halen]], [[The Doors]], [[J. Geils Band]], [[Jefferson Starship]], [[Queen (band)|Queen]], [[Black Sabbath]], [[Journey (band)|Journey]], [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[The Rolling Stones]], [[Alice Cooper]], [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]], [[Iron Maiden]] (twice in 1982), [[David Bowie]], [[Ted Nugent]], [[Prince (musician)|Prince]], [[The Tragically Hip]], [[The Who]], [[Grateful Dead]],[[Judy Garland]], [[Led Zeppelin]], [[Bruce Springsteen]], [[Parliament-Funkadelic]], [[Duran Duran]], [[the Cure]], [[Phish]], [[Sex Pistols]], [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]], [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]], [[Exodus (American band)|Exodus]], [[Green Day]], and [[Helloween]].<ref name=Woods>{{cite news| first=Ashley C.| last=Woods| title=End of an era: Looking back at Cobo Arena's storied history| url=https://www.mlive.com/music/2012/04/goodbye_cobo_arena_demolition.html| newspaper=MLive| date=April 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611051755/https://www.mlive.com/music/2012/04/goodbye_cobo_arena_demolition.html|archive-date=June 11, 2019|access-date=August 29, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Prince plays Detroit: 30+ years of concert reviews| url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/04/22/prince-concerts-reviews-detroit-free-press/83375360/| newspaper=Detroit Free Press| date=April 22, 2016| access-date=September 2, 2019| archive-date=September 2, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902150104/https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/04/22/prince-concerts-reviews-detroit-free-press/83375360/| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title=Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI, USA Concert Setlists|url=https://www.setlist.fm/venue/cobo-arena-detroit-mi-usa-3bd638c4.html| website=Setlist.fm| access-date=September 2, 2019| archive-date=September 2, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902150103/https://www.setlist.fm/venue/cobo-arena-detroit-mi-usa-3bd638c4.html| url-status=live}}</ref>

Notable live albums that have been recorded at the arena include:

[[Bob Seger]] recorded all of ''[[Live Bullet]]'' and part of ''[[Nine Tonight]]'' at Cobo Arena.<ref>{{cite news| first=Gary| last=Graff|title=Remembering Bob Seger's key tours before his final road trip| url=https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2018/11/19/remembering-bob-segers-key-tours-before-his-final-road-trip/| newspaper=[[The Oakland Press]]| date=November 19, 2018| access-date=September 2, 2019| archive-date=August 5, 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805061005/https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2018/11/19/remembering-bob-segers-key-tours-before-his-final-road-trip/| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| first=Donielle| last=Flynn| title=Live Bullet – The Story Behind The Album| url=https://wcsx.com/2022/12/11/live-bullet-the-story_behind_the_album/| website=[[WCSX]]| date=December 11, 2022| access-date=December 28, 2023| archive-date=December 28, 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228052747/https://wcsx.com/2022/12/11/live-bullet-the-story_behind_the_album/| url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Yes (band)|Yes]] recorded two songs at Cobo Arena for their ''[[Yesshows]]'' album, released in 1980.

Kiss recorded most of live album ''[[Alive! (Kiss album)|Alive!]]'' and video ''[[Animalize Live Uncensored]]'' at the arena and it is featured in their video for "[[Modern Day Delilah (song)|Modern Day Delilah]]".<ref name=Woods/>

On August 4 and 5, 1980, Journey recorded most of their live album ''[[Captured (Journey album)|Captured]]'' at Cobo Arena.<ref>{{cite web| first=Bobby|last=Guy| title=Classic Michigan Concerts: Journey Live at Cobo Hall 1980| url=https://wrkr.com/journey-live-detroit/| website=WRKR| date=November 18, 2021|access-date=November 4, 2022| archive-date=November 4, 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104111103/https://wrkr.com/journey-live-detroit/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Tragically Hip recorded their ''[[Live Between Us]]'' live album at the arena in November 1996 during the band's ''[[Trouble at the Henhouse]]'' tour.

As the venue for [[Big Time Wrestling (Detroit)|Big Time Wrestling]] on every other Saturday night in the 1960s and 1970s, it was considered to be "The House [[Ed Farhat|the Sheik]] built."<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.candgnews.com/news/local-man-preserves-detroit-wrestling-through-photographs| title=Local man preserves Detroit wrestling through photographs| first=Robert| last=Guttersohn| date=May 8, 2013| work=Royal Oak Review| access-date=January 23, 2018| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529165158/http://www.candgnews.com/news/local-man-preserves-detroit-wrestling-through-photographs| archivedate=May 29, 2014 }}</ref> It also hosted [[Skate America]] in [[1995 Skate America|1995]].<ref>{{cite news| first=Philip| last=Hersh| title=Bobek, Bonaly Fall Short Of Mark| url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-10-28-9510280021-story.html| newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]| date=October 28, 1995| access-date=August 27, 2019| archive-date=August 27, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827130103/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-10-28-9510280021-story.html| url-status=live}}</ref>

[[WWE]] and [[World Championship Wrestling|WCW]] hosted numerous house shows at the arena during the 1980s and 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cobo Arena|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&view=search&sEventName=&sPromotion=&sDateFromDay=01&sDateFromMonth=01&sDateFromYear=1984&sDateTillDay=31&sDateTillMonth=12&sDateTillYear=2010&sRegion=&sEventType=&sLocation=&sArena=Cobo+Arena&sAny=|website=Cagematch.net|access-date=December 25, 2024}}</ref> Additionally, WWE returned to the arena for a ''[[Saturday Night's Main Event]]'' special on March 18, 2006.<ref>{{cite web|title=Saturday Night's Main Event to air on TV20 in Detroit|url=https://www.wwe.com/inside/news/archive/tv20detroit|website=WWE.com|access-date=December 25, 2024|archive-date=May 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240529223133/https://www.wwe.com/inside/news/archive/tv20detroit|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Chris|last=Schramm|title=Reflections on SNME's return from Cobo|url=https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2006/03/19/reflections-on-snmes-return-from-cobo/|website=Slam Wrestling|date=March 19, 2006|access-date=December 25, 2024|archive-date=July 14, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240714014159/https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2006/03/19/reflections-on-snmes-return-from-cobo/|url-status=live}}</ref>

On June 23, 1963, following the [[Detroit Walk to Freedom]] civil rights march, [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] delivered the original version of his "[[I Have a Dream]]" speech at Cobo Arena to a full house.<ref name=Woods/><ref>{{cite web| title=Address at the Freedom Rally in Cobo Hall| url=http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_speech_at_the_great_march_on_detroit/| publisher=The King Institute| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830014801/http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_speech_at_the_great_march_on_detroit/| archivedate=August 30, 2009| access-date=January 23, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| first=Morgan| last=Whitaker| title=MLK's first 'I have a dream' speech| url=http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/mlks-first-i-have-dream-speech| work=MSNBC| date=June 21, 2013| access-date=August 27, 2019| archive-date=August 27, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827131304/http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/mlks-first-i-have-dream-speech| url-status=live}}</ref>

In January 1994, during the [[1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships|U.S. Figure Skating Championships]] at Joe Louis Arena, skater [[Nancy Kerrigan]] was [[Assault of Nancy Kerrigan|bludgeoned in her right lower thigh]] by an assailant in a corridor of Cobo Arena, which was being used as a practice facility. The assault, which was dubbed "the whack heard 'round the world",<ref>{{cite news|first=Richard|last=Deitsch|title=Kerrigan opens up about 'the whack heard 'round the world'|url=https://www.si.com/olympics/2014/02/21/nancy-kerrigan-tonya-harding-nbc-documentary|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=February 21, 2014|access-date=August 27, 2019|archive-date=July 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712214859/https://www.si.com/olympics/2014/02/21/nancy-kerrigan-tonya-harding-nbc-documentary|url-status=live}}</ref> was planned by rival [[Tonya Harding]]'s ex-husband [[Tonya Harding#Nancy Kerrigan|Jeff Gillooly]] and co-conspirator Shawn Eckardt, in a plot to prevent Kerrigan from competing at the championships and the [[1994 Winter Olympics]].<ref>{{cite news| last=Brennan| first=Christine| url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2014/01/02/christine-brennan-tonya-harding-nancy-kerrigan/4294753/| title=Tonya, Nancy reflect on The Whack heard 'round the world| newspaper=[[USA Today]]| date=January 3, 2014| access-date=January 23, 2018| archive-date=January 18, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118030043/https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2014/01/02/christine-brennan-tonya-harding-nancy-kerrigan/4294753/| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1994/02/14/130460/anatomy-of-a-plot-even-in-their-version-of-events----which-differs-from-tonya-hardings----the-confessed-conspirators-in-the-nancy-kerrigan-assault-were-at-once-goons-and-buffoons |first=E. M. |last=Swift |title=Anatomy of a Plot |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |date=February 14, 1994 |access-date=August 7, 2018 |archive-date=June 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623141054/https://www.si.com/vault/1994/02/14/130460/anatomy-of-a-plot-even-in-their-version-of-events----which-differs-from-tonya-hardings----the-confessed-conspirators-in-the-nancy-kerrigan-assault-were-at-once-goons-and-buffoons |url-status=live }}</ref>

Cobo Arena closed in 2010 as part of a major renovation completed in 2015. The space was used to construct new facilities, including the {{convert|40000|sqfoot|adj=on}} Grand Riverview Ballroom, a new atrium area, 21 additional meeting rooms, and an outdoor terrace.<ref>{{cite news| first=John|last=Gallagher| title=Latest Cobo upgrade will be an eye-popper| url=https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2015/05/30/detroit-cobo-video-downtown/28087343/| newspaper=Detroit Free Press| date=May 30, 2015| access-date=August 24, 2019| archive-date=August 24, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824183544/https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2015/05/30/detroit-cobo-video-downtown/28087343/| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| first=AJ| last=Williams| title=Cobo Center Unveils Grand Riverview Ballroom And Atrium|url=https://michiganchronicle.com/cobo-center-unveils-grand-riverview-ballroom-and-atrium/| newspaper=[[Michigan Chronicle]]| date=September 11, 2013| access-date=August 24, 2019| archive-date=August 24, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824183554/https://michiganchronicle.com/2013/09/11/cobo-center-unveils-grand-riverview-ballroom-and-atrium/| url-status=live}}</ref>