Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena (formerly the UMBC Event Center)

CHESAPEAKE EMPLOYERS INSURANCE ARENA 

(formerly known as the UMBC Event Center)

Location: 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, Maryland 21250

Opened: February 3rd, 2018

Owner: University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

Construction Cost: $85 million dollars

Capacity: 5,245 (concerts), 4,586 (basketball), 4,400 (professional wrestling)

Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena (formerly known as the UMBC Event Center) is a basketball arena, concert and multi-purpose event venue located on the campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in Catonsville, Maryland. The venue is the home of the UMBC Retreivers Men's and Women's Basketball Teams, as well as the UMBC Volleyball Team and also serves as a replacement to the Retreiever Activities Center (RAC). The venue has a capacity of up to 5,000 seats, approxiamtely 1,000 more than the RAC and is the campus venue for all concerts and commencement ceremonies. 

The venue served as the home base of the professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor Wrestling (ROH) from 2018 until 2021 when the promotion was sold from Sinclair Broadcasting Group to Tony Khan who also owns the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The venue was used as the home base for ROH during Sinclair's time as owner of the promotion due to the fact that Sinclair was headquartered in Baltimore and it made sense from a monetary standpoint to host ROH at a home arena in the Baltimore area. 

The venue was home to 8 different Ring of Honor Wrestling pay-per-view events, hosting the following cards at the venue:

• ROH Best in the World 2018 
• ROH Glory By Honor XVI (2018)
• ROH Best in the World 2019
• ROH Final Battle 2019
• ROH Final Battle 2020
• ROH 19th Anniversary Show (2021)
• ROH Best in the World 2021
• ROH Final Battle 2021: End of an Era

In addition to the pay-per-views hosted, Ring of Honor taped most of it's television from 2020-2021 at the venue. Other non-PPV events hosted by ROH at the venue included:

• ROH Road to G1 Supercard 2019: Night 4 (March 31st, 2019)
• ROH Free Enterprise (February 9th, 2020)
• ROH Honor For All 2021 (November 14th, 2021)

All Elite Wrestling has been to the venue one time in 2022, hosting an episode of AEW Dynamite at the venue on May 4th, 2022, while taping matches on that night for the May 6th, 2022, episode of AEW Rampage and the May 9th, 2022, episode of AEW DARK: Elevation.