Where is WWE Raw Tonight (7/14/25)?: Get to Know Birmingham’s Legacy Arena

On October 22, 1984, WWE made its debut at the Legacy Arena for a live event under the WWF banner. The first card featured top stars of the time, including guys like Iron Sheik, Paul Orndorff, Roddy Piper, Junkyard Dog, Kamala, Chief Jay Strongbow, and Andre the Giant. A year later, they held a second live event featuring the US Express (Mike Rotunda and Barry Windham), Jerry Brisco, Wendi Richter, and Nikolai Volkoff to name a few.

Two years passed before any wrestling promotion would run at the Legacy Arena as in 1987, Jim Crockett Promotions held their first and only event there under that banner. Though JCP’s successor, WCW would run the arena a handful of times over the years. The JCP card featured an NWA World Television Championship match between Tully Blanchard and Dusty Rhodes, NWA United States Heavyweight Championship match between Nikita Koloff and Arn Anderson, and an NWA World Tag Team Championship match between the Awesome Twosome (Rick Rude and Manny Fernandez) vs Rock ‘n’ Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson). Also on the card were Bobby Eaton, Lex Luger, Jimmy and Ron Garvin, Barry Windham, The Barbarian, and Jimmy Valiant, among others.

In classic fashion, shortly after JCP ran the arena, WWE struck back, running a show there five months later before holding four events there in 1989, including their first TV taping on January 4 of that year. An astonishing 27 matches were taped, carrying over much of WWE’s content for the remainder of the month. Future Hall of Famers and legends such as Mr. Perfect, Arn Anderson, Paul Roma, Ted DiBiase, Tully Blanchard, Rick Martel, Jim Neidhart, Koko B. Ware, Jake Roberts, Big Boss Man, the Blue Blazer, Jacques and Raymond Rougeau, Demolition, Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, the Bushwhackers, Haku, Brutus Beefcake, Greg Valentine, Tito Santana, the Brooklyn Brawler, and so many others made up the event card. It truly was a who’s who of both the top stars of the time and those who would go on to become all-time greats. WWE ran a second taping there in 1990, which in addition to some of the above names including matches by the Ultimate Warrior, Hulk Hogan, Dusty Rhodes, Rick Rude, Randy Savage, and Jim Duggan.

Following one more live event later in 1990, WWE took a nine-year break from running the Legacy Arena, allowing WCW to take over the region for a period between 1996 – 1998. WCW ran four consecutive events, all of which were TV, during that time.

On February 15, 1999 WWE brought Raw to the Legacy Arena for the first time for RAW is WAR #299. Attended by nearly 14,000, the card featured Val Venis successfully defending his Intercontinental Championship against Billy Gunn, Bob Holly retaining his Hardcore Championship against Steve Blackman, Triple H and X-Pac defeating Kane and Shane McMahon in a European Championship tag team match, and a main event of Mankind vs the Rock in a ladder match with Mankind’s world title on the line. Non-title matches featuring D-Lo Brown, Jeff Jarrett, the Corporation, Ministry of Darkness, and Ivory made up the rest of the card.

Armageddon, Raw, and SmackDown Tapings in the 2000s

WWE and WCW continued to trade shows at the Legacy Arena until 2000, when WWE booked the venue for a PPV for the first time in the form of Armageddon 2000. Held on December 10, 2000, this was WWE’s last Armageddon under the WWF banner and last before the brand split in 2002. The centerpiece of the event saw Kurt Angle defend his world title against Undertaker, Triple H, Steve Austin, the Rock, and Rikishi inside of Hell in the Cell. In a card that largely featured a lot of subpar matches, the 32-minute Hell in a Cell was exceptional, receiving 4.5 (out of a then just five) stars from Wrestling Observer. The card also featured the Radicalz (Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn, and Eddie Guerrero) winning over Team Xtreme (Hardy Boys and Lita), William Regal successfully defending his European Championship against Hardcore Holly, Chris Jericho over Kane in a last man standing match, and title changes for the Intercontinental Championship (Chris Benoit over Billy Gunn) and tag team championship (Edge and Christian over the Dudley Boys, K-Kwik and Road Dogg, and Right to Censor). Armageddon 2000 was WWE’s largest ever gate at Legacy Arena, just shy of 15,000.

In 2001, WWE ran its first SmackDown taping from Legacy Arena for the special SmackDown 100. It was the first of two special SmackDown episodes the company would run from the venue in addition to 2019’s SmackDown Thanksgiving. In all, WWE has run nine episodes of SmackDown from the Legacy Arena, the most recent coming last year. This in addition to several TV tapings where matches were used for SmackDown, Velocity, Main Event, Superstars, and other shows.

After holding Raw #299 there in 1999, WWE returned six years later for Raw #617. From 2005 onward, WWE would hold nine total episodes of Raw at Legacy Arena including Raw #1090, the Ultimate Warrior tribute show. The show featured 12 total matches including Rob Van Dam defeating Alberto Del Rio, Cesaro defeating Mark Henry, Sheamus defeating Jack Swagger, and Bad New Barrett defeating Dolph Ziggler in the quarterfinals of the #1 contender’s tournament for the Intercontinental Championship. Batista and Randy Orton teamed to defeat the Usos and an 11-on-3 match that pitted members of the roster against the Shield ended in a no contest.

In all, WWE hosted 11 cards from 2000-10 and another 19 between 2011-24.

WWE Raw Card (7/14/25)

WWE brings Raw to the Legacy Arena following a huge weekend of shows . With those shows came some landscape altering moments such a a new Raw Women’s Champion and the question of who is next for the World Heavyweight Champion. WWE announced that tonight’s Raw will center around a huge gauntlet match that pits CM Punk vs Jey Uso vs Bron Breakker vs Penta vs LA Knight. The winner goes on to face Gunther at SummerSlam. In addition, Nikki Bella will wrestle Chelsea Green in Bella’s first match on Raw in seven years.