The Palace at Auburn Hills, located in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, was demolished by a series of controlled explosions on Saturday. Many top names in boxing performed at the venue, which opened in 1988 with George Foreman facing Bobby Hitz. The biggest boxing event ever held there featured Mike Tyson against Andrew Golota on October 20, 2000. Ring legend Tommy Hearns fought his last fight there on February 4, 2006. Other stars who fought there included Bronco McKart, Milton McCrory, Mark Breland, Michael Moorer, Oba Carr, Johnathon Banks, Gerald McClellan, James Toney, Jimmy Paul, Chris Byrd, The Dirrell brothers, Tony Tubbs, Tim Witherspoon, Rico Hoye, Leeonzer Barber, Christy Martin, Mary Jo Sanders, and many more. The last boxing card held at The Palace was in 2012 and the building hadn’t been used at all since 2017.
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Wow, excellent work by the demolition crew. If my memory serves me right, I think they held WWF wrestling events at the same place during the 1980-1990’s.. Can anyone verify this statement?
I remember SummerSlam 93 was there
Lots of events there including wrestling during those years.
Thank you guys for the updates….
This was a terrorist activity…Have the authorities been notified and was there anyone killed on the inside ?
Did Michael Bay know about this? He could have filmed it and used it for a future movie…
Bay is a great director. I love his work.
Me too, I remember Bay filmed the demolition explosion mansion for Bad Boys 2.
At least they didn’t just keep leaving it abandoned, like most everything in Detroit.