Memphis is a city in the western corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers.

Memphis had a population of 646,889 at the 2010 census, making it the biggest city in the state of Tennessee, the third largest in the Southeastern United States, and the 20th largest in the United States. The greater Memphis metropolitan area, including adjacent counties in Mississippi and Arkansas, had a 2010 population of 1,316,100. This makes Memphis the second largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed only by metropolitan Nashville, which has overtaken Memphis in recent years. Memphis is the youngest of Tennessee's major cities. A resident of Memphis is referred to as a Memphian, and the Memphis region is known, particularly to media outlets, as the "Mid-South".

Arenas

• FedExForum
• Mid-South Coliseum

Events

• Monday Nitro - July 7, 1997
• Monday Nitro - November 10, 1997
• WWE Heat - February 14, 1999
• St. Valentine's Day Massacre - February 14, 1999
• Smackdown - June 22, 2000
• Smackdown - September 20, 2001
• Raw - May 20, 2002
• Smackdown - October 24, 2002
• Raw - January5, 2004
• Unforgiven - September 16, 2007
• Raw - September 15, 2008
• ECW - June 2, 2009
• Smackdown - June 5, 2009
• WWE Superstars - February 4, 2010
• Smackdown - February 5, 2010
• Raw - January 2, 2012

Promotions

• Magnificent Ladies Wrestling
• Memphis Championship Wrestling

Wrestlers

• Brian Lawler
• Harvey Wippleman
• Jerry Lawler
• Jimmy Hart
• Kevin Fertig
• Nelson Frazier, Jr.
• Roy Ferris
• Stacy Carter

External Links

• Memphis, Tennessee on Wikipedia