Norfolk Scope - Hostings

Hostings

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Norfolk Scope is currently home to the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League, seating 8,725 for hockey. It has hosted the Admirals since the team began in the East Coast Hockey League in 1989, and stayed as the home arena as the franchise moved up to the AHL in 2000. Also 2011 the Scope will be the home of the Norfolk SharX that will play in the MISL.

In previous years, Norfolk Scope was home to an arena football team, the Norfolk Nighthawks and the now-defunct American Basketball Association (ABA) professional basketball franchise Virginia Squires.

The Squires played at Scope, the Roanoke Civic Center, Richmond Coliseum and Hampton Roads Coliseum (now Hampton Coliseum) – all within the state of Virginia – from 1971 to 1976. Norfolk Scope also served as the venue of the 1974 ABA All-Star Game. The Virginia Squires played their first game at Scope on November 27, 1970 (versus the Dallas Chapparals, now known as the San Antonio Spurs) and their last game on April 7, 1976, versus the New York Nets.

The arena was home to Old Dominion University men's college basketball, until the campus' own 8,639-seat (basketball) arena, the Ted Constant Convocation Center, opened in Norfolk in October 2002.

Wrestling

WCW Starrcade – 1988 & 1991
WCW World War 3 – 1995 & 1996
WWE The Great American Bash – 2004
Scope is also famous in professional wrestling for hosting the edition of WCW Monday Nitro which was invaded by rival company WWE's D-Generation X stable.
TNA Destination X- 2008
WWE SmackDown - 2003,2006,2008,2010,2012
WWE Slammy Awards - 2011
WWE Raw- 2002
WWE ECW- 2006
Ring of Honor - 2012
WWE Tribute to the Troops - 2012

Basketball

1974 American Basketball Association All-Star Game - January 30, 1974
The First NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship (Women's Final Four) – March 29, 1982
NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship (Women's Final Four) – April 3, 1983
McDonald's All-American Game - March 21, 1998
1991-1993 MEAC Men's Basketball Tournaments

Boxing Heavyweight

Larry Holmes against Eric "Butterbean" Esch (Holmes' last fight) – 2002 Promoted by Daryl DeCroix and Frank Azzalina along with Don DeBias Jr, in which designed the Slogan and Name of the Title Match as "Respect..One will give it, One will get it"

Welterweight