The arena has hosted top performers, including Britney Spears and Aerosmith, as well as rodeos, ice shows, and children's entertainment.

The 2005 Red River Classic PRCA Rodeo to be hosted at the CenturyTel Center was cancelled due to the arena being used as a shelter for Hurricane Katrina evacuees.

The Saddledome replaced the Corral as the city's top sporting arena, and both facilities hosted hockey and figure skating events at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

The same year, the arena hosted its only international match, where Norway beat Saudi Arabia 6 – 0.

The arena opened in 1970 and has previously hosted Hampton University basketball along with NBA and NHL preseason exhibition games.

The arena also hosted the final phase of the 1974 World Basketball championship

The arena also hosted SummerSlam 1999, as well as the July 19, 2011 episode of Friday Night SmackDown that aired on July 22, 2011.

The 1995 NBA All-Star Game was played in the arena as well as the 2000 WNBA All-Star Game, and the arena hosted the 2009 NBA All-Star Game.

The arena hosted WWE Money in the Bank on July 15, 2012 and is scheduled to host WWE Royal Rumble on January 27, 2013.

In bull riding, the PBR hosted a Built Ford Tough Series ( at the time, called the Bud Light Cup ) event at the arena each year between 1999 and 2002 ; in 2004 the event was moved to the Glendale Arena ( later Jobing. com Arena ).

On the next night, the arena hosted the last show of Michael Flatley's Feet of Flames tour.

The arena hosted the 9th Annual Latin Grammy Awards on November 13, 2008.

On December 19, 2010 the arena hosted TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs.

* December 26, 2008 – January 5, 2009-The arena hosted many of the games ( including the gold medal game ) of the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

* The arena hosted WCW Uncensored 2000, WWE's Royal Rumble event on January 29, 2006, Survivor Series on November 18, 2007, and Survivor Series on November 21, 2010.

During the week of July 2 – 8, 2007, the arena hosted the International Convention and Contests of the Barbershop Harmony Society, a men's singing organization.

The arena also hosted the 2008 Democratic National Convention, although the party's presidential nominee, then-Senator Barack Obama, made his acceptance speech at the nearby INVESCO Field at Mile High.

During the Cold War, the East German national shooting arena was located at Suhl, and hosted many top-level competitions, including the 1986 ISSF World Championships.

The arena has also hosted many World Wide Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment / WWE events over the years.

On February 1, 2006, the arena hosted the first concert by The Rolling Stones, in Baltimore, since 1969, which was at the arena.

On February 11, 2008, the arena also hosted a rally for presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Work on the LG Arena was finished mid October 2009 and the arena hosted its first concert with Tom Jones.

Prior to its first concert, the arena hosted the 2009 Horse of the Year show.

The NCAA Men's ice hockey Frozen Four tournament was held at the arena on April 10 and April 12, 2008.

In 1995, the arena was host to the NCAA Men's Basketball Division 1 games ( Rounds 1 & 2 ).

As North Carolina is a hotbed for college basketball, it is expected that the arena will host many NCAA basketball games.

The arena has also hosted many major national sporting events including the 1999, 2003, and 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball regional first and second rounds, the 2009 and 2012 Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight, the 1998 Frozen Four, the 2004 Frozen Four, and the 2006 Women's Final Four.

* Women's sports enter NCAA arena

College basketball first arrived at the arena with the opening rounds of the 1984 NCAA basketball tournament.

In odd-numbered years, the arena was regularly one of eight sites to host the first and second rounds of the men's NCAA Basketball Tournament for the first ten years of its existence, though it was taken out of the rotation for several years ( the arena hosted the event again in 2012 ), partly due to the obsolete octagonal mid-1990s-style scoreboard that hung above the arena floor.

The arena hosted games in the second and third rounds of the 2011 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament on March 18 and March 20, 2011.

Ford Field is transformed into a basketball arena in preparation for the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament | 2008 Midwest Regional Finals.

The arena in Oakland hosted the West Regional of the 2006 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

The arena hosted the NCAA Frozen Four finals in 1993, 1997 and 2006 and the Great Midwest Conference men's basketball tournament in 1995.

In March 2010, the arena hosted the first and second-round games in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, for the fifth time since 1992.

* Villanova University Wildcats of the NCAA Big East Conference ; some high-attendance men's basketball home games which the on-campus arena, The Pavilion, is inadequate to accommodate.

The arena has also hosted the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament five times, as the West Regional site-1998, 2001, 2003, 2008, and 2011.

It is the second-largest arena in the ACC and the tenth-largest in the NCAA.

The Palestra has hosted more regular season or post-season NCAA men's basketball games, more visiting teams, and more NCAA tournaments than any other U. S. arena.

* Villanova University Wildcats of the NCAA Big East Conference ; some high-attendance men's basketball home games which the on-campus arena, The Pavilion, was too small to accommodate.

Since its opening day, the arena has hosted the 1960 Democratic National Convention, the 1968 and 1972 NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four, the 1992 NCAA Women's Basketball Final Four, the 1963 NBA All-Star Game, and the boxing competitions during the 1984 Summer Olympics.

The arena was the site of the largest crowd ever to see an NCAA college ice hockey game in the State of Colorado, as the University of Denver defeated Colorado College, 3 – 2, for the Denver Cup championship in 1995, with over 16, 000 fans in attendance.