Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 120,623 at the 2010 census. It is the fourth-largest city in the state, and is the larger principal city of the Lafayette-Acadiana, LA Combined Statistical Area, which, in 2007, had an estimated total population of 538,470.
This city should not be confused with one of the same name in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, and which was absorbed into New Orleans. It was founded as Vermilionville in 1821 by a French-speaking Acadian named Jean Mouton. In 1884, it was renamed for General Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero who fought with and significantly aided the American Army during the American Revolutionary War. The city's economy was primarily based on agriculture until the 1940s, when the petroleum and natural gas industries became dominant. In recent years, the medical profession has taken a more predominant role in the area economy.
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- WWF House Show - March 20, 1988.
- WWF House Show - June 16, 1989.
- Raw - January 22, 2001
- Raw - December 17, 2001
- Smackdown - October 3, 2002
- Raw - September 1, 2003
- Raw - January 22, 2007
- Raw - July 9, 2007
- Raw - March 17, 2008
- Raw - June 8, 2009
- Superstars - June 11, 2009
- Raw - February 8, 2010
- NXT - December 14, 2010
- Smackdown - December 17, 2010
- Raw - October 3, 2011
- RAW - November 26, 2012
- RAW - February 18, 2013
- RAW - September 15, 2014
- Superstars - September 18, 2014
- Main Event - June 9, 2015
- Smackdown - June 11, 2015
- Main Event - January 12, 2016
- Smackdown - January 14, 2016
- RAW - June 12, 2017.
- Main Event - June 14, 2017.
- Smackdown - September 11, 2018.
- 205 Live - September 11, 2018.
- RAW - February 18, 2019.
- Main Event - February 20, 2019.
- Smackdown - June 23, 2023.
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Wrestlers[]
- Aaron Phillips
- Braxton Hunter
- Lash LeRoux
- Mac Johnson