Other Events
HP Pavilion hosts an average of 190 events a year, including many non-sporting events. In 2006, the HP Pavilion sold the most tickets to non-sporting events of any venue in the Western United States, and the fourth highest total in the world, after Madison Square Garden in New York City, the Manchester Evening News Arena in Manchester, and the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
The arena has hosted many WWE events in the past, most notably the Royal Rumble in 1998 and WWE's SummerSlam in 2001. It also held WWE's The Great American Bash in 2007. It will later hold the August 8, 2011 episode of RAW (the last Raw before SummerSlam 2011) in the Pavilion.
It has also played host for other sporting events, such as the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the NCAA Basketball tournament (known as March Madness), the Pac-10 women's basketball championship, and the Dew Action Sports Tour.
HP Pavilion hosts the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus every year. Trains are usually parked in nearby Milpitas. However, in 2008, the train was parked on the Vasona Branch.
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