We see the light at the end of the tunnel and have no doubt that we can rebound from all of this. If you are able to support the arena, please visit the GoFundMe campaign here.
Shows All Shows. The Wrstling Podcast Every Friday. Inside The Games Every Saturday. Wrestling Roast Every Sunday. Monday Night Live Every Monday. What's Going Down? Every Tuesday. Power Slam Every Wednesday. Queen Street Posse Every Wednesday. The warehouse was given the name Viking Hall in the s after it was bought by the South Philadelphia Viking Club, a local chapter of mummers. They used the building for storage and to rehearse for the annual Mummers Parade.
Through the mid s, the Viking Club would also stage midnight bingo games at the venue to raise funds for their organization. South Philadelphia fans were prominent in the rise of ECW from a local promotion to a national promotion. A dollar store was located next to the venue on South Swanson Street, allowing ECW fans to buy cookware and bakeware that they would hand to wrestlers during shows to be used as weapons.
ECW broadcast Barely Legal , their first live pay-per-view event from the venue in Immediately following this broadcast, a blown transistor caused the building to lose power. To this day, Barely Legal remains the only wrestling event to be broadcast live on television from the venue. Following the demise of Extreme Championship Wrestling in , many wrestling promotions ran shows at the venue. Controversy arose when Xtreme Pro Wrestling XPW signed an exclusive lease with the venue in late , renaming the building XPW Arena and preventing other promotions from utilizing it.
XPW went out of business in , and the lease was voided. The name was suggested by J. Russell Peltz, who began co-promoting professional boxing cards at the venue with Joe Hand Promotions in It paid homage to the original Alhambra Movie Theater in South Philadelphia that hosted boxing in the s and s. In March the venue became home to Wrestle Factory, the wrestling school for Chikara.
The ECW brand of World Wrestling Entertainment ran a house show at the venue in June , with tickets for the event selling out in under four minutes. New Jack was banned from the venue following an incident during a Pro Wrestling Xplosion show in September He famously ordered Sprite at the venue's concession stand and was instead given 7 Up, prompting him to verbally harass the stand attendant. Joe Hand Promotions announced in January that after a five-year partnership, it would stop promoting boxing cards at the venue.
The venue was then renamed to The Arena by general manager Roger Artigiani.
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