12 Facts About Cow Palace

Cow Palace is an indoor arena located in Daly City, California, situated on the city's northern border with neighboring San Francisco.

The Cow Palace was an important venue for professional boxing until the early 1980s, having staged regular shows, including ten world title fights and appearances of all-time greats like Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Alexis Arguello.

In recent years the Cow Palace has been the Bay Area stop for the Cirque du Soleil.

Sharks' second season in the Cow Palace was highlighted by a 17-game losing streak and a league record 71 losses.

Cow Palace has hosted professional wrestling events under promoters, most notably Roy Shire, who ran cards there from the early 60s to 1981, oftentimes to sold-out houses headlined by Ray Stevens, Pat Patterson and others.

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In 2018 the Cow Palace hosted New Japan Pro-Wrestling's G1 Special in San Francisco.

From 1974 to 1989, the Cow Palace was the site of the Pacific Coast Championships, a yearly tournament on the men's professional tennis tour.

In 2010, the Cow Palace had a regular sports tenant when the American Indoor Football Association's San Jose Wolves kicked off.

In 2020, the Cow Palace hosted a minor sports event in its walls, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory versus its long time rival St Ignatius College Preparatory.

Cow Palace is officially the 1-A District Agricultural Association, a State agency of the California Department of Food and Agriculture's Division of Fairs and Expositions.

In 1982, the Cow Palace stood in for the Houston Coliseum when the 1962 barbecue welcoming NASA to Houston was recreated for the movie The Right Stuff.

Cow Palace has a Daly City address, and except for the very northwest corner of the parking lot, which is across the San Francisco border, it lies entirely within Daly City.