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Does anybody have a comprehensive idea as to how each of the regular monthly buildings were ranked as far as...
1. Capacity
2. Importance to the federation
3. Attendance
It goes w/o saying that MSG would be #1 in all categories. I would assume(correct me if wrong) the Spectrum was probably #2 in each category.
From there, what are your opinions?
DC Cap Centre, Balt. Civic Center, Boston Garden and Pittsburgh should be in the next grouping, but were there others? Springfield? The Mid-Hudson? New Haven Coliseum ? Nassau Coliseum?
Where would a place like the Zembo in Harrisburg or the Portland Civic Center fit in?
What am I missing?
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Should size of television market be taken into consideration? It wasn't uncommon (given the size, population, and number of large and mid size cities in thd Northeast) to be able to catch WWF tv in those days on different station's, (within an hour from one another) with each promoting different house shows.
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Quoted from: SuplexDeficiencyJones, May 26th, 2015 01:18 GMTShould size of television market be taken into consideration? It wasn't uncommon (given the size, population, and number of large and mid size cities in thd Northeast) to be able to catch WWF tv in those days on different station's, (within an hour from one another) with each promoting different house shows.
Yes. Take everything into consideration.
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The Meadowlands in E.Rutherford, NJ became a major arena that would run 6 times a year or more starting in 1980 and was an even bigger venue than MSG.
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Boston Garden would be near the top as far as importance and being a big attendance arena.
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This message was edited by executioner1333 on May 26th, 2015 15:53 GMT
Immediately after Bruno ran a program with someone (for instance Koloff) at Madison Square Garden, that program would immediately be shipped out to the other big-city arenas like Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and Pittsburgh. At the same time program was also shipped out to the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island and the New Haven Coliseum in Connecticut. So if Madison Square Garden is class A, other big cities are class B, then Nassau and New Haven would probably be class C. I imagine class D would include some of the smaller arenas where the champion would occasionally defend the title and class E would include high school gyms and such.
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Where would Scranton CYC rank? Prior to Bruno's second reign, the champ headlined virtually every card. Bruno rarely missed, Koloff defended there, Pedro was a regular. It stopped in Bruno's second reign.
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This message was edited by glaz on May 26th, 2015 22:51 GMT
The Springfield Civic Center (now MassMutual Center) opened in September 1972. The Hartford Civic Center (now XL Center) opened in January 1975. Would these venues be classified as B or C? The Hartford building seats nearly twice as many as the one in Springfield. Both were regularly hosts to Backlund title defenses -- no surprise, since they're practically in his backyard. I wasn't living in this area during either of Bruno's reigns, or Graham's, so I have no idea how often those champions appeared on their cards.
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This message was edited by Spoiler on May 26th, 2015 23:24 GMT
Imo
A list
MSG , Boston Garden , Philadelphia Spectrum , Baltimore Civic Center , Philadelphia Arena , Washington National Arena
B list
Sunnyside Gardens , Hartford , Springfield , Nassau Coliseum , Providence .. CYC Scranton.
C list.
HS gyms
Skating rinks
Bingo halls
Outdoor fairs
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My rankings by memory are A. Msg, Spectrum, Boston Garden, Meadowlands Arena, Nassau Coli, Capital Center, Your B. types halls such as Hartford civic, Atlantic City B.Hall, Wildwood convention Hall, Baltimore Civic, Asbury park convention hall other similiar..C. HS Gyms, Bingo halls, etc.
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Living in the Baltimore/DC area I would say the Baltimore Civic Center and Capital Centre were treated equally. Very small overlaps in what was run in each venue. Certain programs would run in Baltimore and others at the Capital Centre. Huge things like Bruno vs. Zbyszko or Muraco vs. Snuka would play both buildings though.
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A list
MSG
A minus(-) List Boston Garden , Philadelphia Spectrum , Baltimore Civic Center , Nassau Coliseum
B list
Hartford , Springfield , , Providence .. CYC Scranton, New Haven
C list.
TV Tapings
Sunnyside Garden
Witchi's
HS gyms
Skating rinks
Bingo halls
Outdoor fairs
Armories
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This message was edited by edbeta1 on May 27th, 2015 13:37 GMT
I would agree with all the respondents here, and would like to add one bizarre occasion when the tag-team championship changed hands one night, in of all places, the Teaneck, NJ Armory......This was before my time, and I do not have any details, but I can only imagine that someone might have been suddenly leaving the territory and maybe there was not enough time to stage the event at a better venue, or to have it occur on TV..........Having something "important" occur in Teaneck was certainly not going to get the message out around the horn, but I guess announcing it on the Washington TV show was considered "good enough" in those days........ And that unusual tag-team championship title change that supposedly occurred in Atlantic City in 1967 is equally bizarre, because I was faithfully following the Washington TV show in those days and attending all MSG shows, and I do not remember hearing anything about it back then........I can only vaguely recall that the tag-team titles just seemed to disappear at the time.........I had no way of realizing it at the time, but in retrospect it is obvious that 1966/67 were rather dark days for Capitol.........
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I was never impressed with the Nassau, Baltimore and Landover cards. To me they were definitely B arena's.
Hartford CC roof colapsed back in '78 so Srpingfield and New Haven ran until Hartford CC was rebuilt bigger and reopened in '80. Backlund would headline almost every Springfield and Hartford show unless he was in Japan.
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