Topic summary
Grand Ballroom
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Manhattan Center.
Events
WWE Raw recorded its inaugural episode at the Grand Ballroom on January 11, 1993. A special Raw 25th anniversary special was co-hosted with the Barclays Center on January 22, 2018. The Hammerstein Ballroom has hosted Extreme Championship Wrestling events in the years before its closing and in its revivals in 2005 and 2006. Since 2006, the Manhattan Center has played host to yearly Ring of Honor events, both in the Grand Ballroom and the Hammerstein Ballroom. In 2014, TNA taped multiple episodes of their Impact Wrestling TV program at the Grand Ballroom on June 25–27, and then again August 5–7 and in 2015 also held their debut on Destination America and taped upcoming episodes on January 7–9. Game Changer Wrestling held their first event at the Hammerstein Ballroom on January 23, 2022.