Roberto Clemente Coliseum (Spanish: Coliseo Roberto Clemente) is a sports and concert arena located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was, for many years, Puerto Rico's largest indoor event facility, and remains one of the largest.
The coliseum has been host to a variety of events, including world championship boxing and basketball, business expos, circus, concerts and other things.
Many Puerto Rican and international performers have been at the arena, among others.
Concerts that have been held there include:
Saga/FM: Silent Knight/City Of Fear Tour
January 10, 1981 (The photo that appears on the Worlds Apart Album was shot there)
Santana: Zebop! Tour - April 18, 1981 and April 19, 1981
Judas Priest: Point Of Entry Tour - December 15, 1981
Quiet Riot: Metal Health Tour - December 3, 1983
Chicago - August 17, 1984
José José - May 10, 1985
Bon Jovi/Ratt: The World Infestation Tour '85 - December 13, 1985
W.A.S.P./Kiss: Asylum Tour - January 12, 1986
John Butcher Axis/Night Ranger: Seven Wishes Tour - February 8, 1986
Hall & Oates - May 16, 1986
Loverboy/Dokken: Under Lock And Key Tour - July 26, 1986
Rough Cutt/Dio: Sacred Heart Tour - October 11, 1986
Cyndi Lauper: True Colors Tour - January 3, 1987
38 Special/Kansas: Drastic Measures Tour - January 31, 1987
Duran Duran: Strange Behavior Tour - August 7/8, 1987
Def Leppard: Hysteria Tour - January 19, 1988
Triumph: A Sport Of Kings Tour - March 25, 1988
Saga - April 22, 1988
R.E.O. Speedwagon/Information Society - January 7, 1989
Jetboy/Stryper: Against The Law Tour - October 20, 1990
Meat Loaf/Extreme: Pornograffitti Tour - January 31, 1992
Chicago - February 29, 1992
Gloria Estefan: Into The Light World Tour - March 14–15, 1992
Sting: Ten Summoner's Tales Tour - March 9, 1993
INXS: Full Moon, Dirty Hearts Tour - March 23, 1994
Gloria Estefan: Evolution World Tour - January 17–18, 1997
The Cranberries: Wake Up And Smell The Coffee Tour - June 9, 2002
Firehouse/R.E.O. Speedwagon/Journey - May 8, 2004
Boston - August 27, 2004
Stryper - August 19, 2005
Judas Priest: Angel Of Retribution - September 16, 2005
Incubus - December 5, 2005
Firehouse/Slaughter/Poison:20 Years Of Tour - August 31, 2006
Metal Church/Queensryche - August 16, 2008
R.E.O. Speedwagon/Kansas - October 18, 2008
Puya/Sebastian Bach/Guns N'Roses: Chinese Democracy World Tour - April 15, 2010
Air Supply: 2012
Soulfly/Fear Factory: The World Industrialist Tour - August 28, 2012
Stryper/Tesla/Bret Michaels: Get Your Rocks On Tour - October 6, 2012
Van Halen were scheduled to perform during their III Tour on September 20 and December 11, 1998, but the shows were cancelled.
It has been the home of three different BSN professional basketball teams and the BSN has also used it as a neutral site for their most important games, including game 7 of the championship finals, several times.
The Coliseum has also been used by religious leaders for conferences and religious services.
Most of the world championship boxing bouts fought in Puerto Rico during the late 1970s and early 1980s were fought at the Roberto Clemente coliseum, including Roberto Durán's world title defense versus Mexican Leoncio Ortiz, Wilfredo Gómez's knockout win againstCarlos Zarate, many of Samuel Serrano's title defenses, and the fight where Muhammad Ali defended his title against Jean Pierre Coopman, the only time a world Heavyweight championship fight has been held in Puerto Rico. George Foreman had his last fight (and experienced the vision that led him to become a born-again Christian in one of its dressing rooms) before announcing his first retirement there, and Julio César Chávez had one of his first important fights there, on the undercard of Edwin Rosario's world Lightweight championship win against José Luis Ramírez. Because of all the boxing action going on during that era, many observers call the period from the middle 1970s to the middle 1980s as the golden age of boxing in Puerto Rico.
The Coliseum has also been the place of large political rallies, and Puerto Rico's electoral commission uses its facilities to count votes after each election, and also hosted Miss Universe 2002, won by Oxana FedorovaofRussia. The Van Halen concert was cancelled due to a hurricane. Some days later the band sent a cargo plane with care packages.