Capital One Arena

Capital One Arena is a sports arena in Washington D.C. The arena opened on December 2, 1997, and is the current home to the Washington Capitals on the National Hockey League (NHL), Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA), Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), the Washington Valor of the Arena Football League, and the Georgetown University men's basketball team. The arena was also home to the Washington Power of the National Lacrosse League (NLL) from 2001 to 2002.

The arena was originally known as MCI Center from 1997 to 2006. It became Verizon Center in January 2006 when Verizon Communications acquired the naming rights for the arena.^[1] The name changed again in August 2017 when Capital One acquired naming rights.^[2]

Capital One Arena has held many WWE events as well including: SummerSlam in 2005, Cyber Sunday in 2007, Survivor Series in 2009 and WWE Capitol Punishment in 2011. Aside from WWE, the arena also hosted World Championship Wrestling (WCW)'s Starrcade pay-per-view in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000.

Capital One Arena Media

The arena in January 2006, then known as MCI Center.
Interior during a Capitals game in February 2023. The overhead video board that was installed in 2019 as part of the largest renovation in arena history
The Capitals playing the Pittsburgh Penguins in May 2017 during the 2017 Stanley Cup playoffs at Capital One Arena, then known as the Verizon Center
A ticket from a 2006 game at the then-MCI Center between the Wizards and Detroit Pistons
A Washington Wizards game
A Washington Capitals game
A Washington Valor game
The final of the Atlantic 10 men's basketball tournament in 2018
WWE Monday Night Raw in the arena in 2014