Notables include: CHSAA high school volleyball, spirit and basketball playoffs and championships, Disney on Ice, The Denver March Pow Wow, Rocky Mountain Percussion Association State Championship Finals, The Denver Coliseum Mineral, Fossil, Gem, and Jewelry Show, cheerleading competitions and roller derby.
The venue also hosted the WCW's Spring Stampede (1998) and the Colorado Wildcats of the Professional Indoor Football League.
President Dwight Eisenhower stopped in Denver on his tour of western states in support of Republican candidates on October 8, 1962.
In 1976, a planned Marvin Gaye concert was canceled after learning that Gaye was at his home in Los Angeles sleeping, led to rioting at the coliseum, a series of lawsuits for fraud and deceiving ticket buyers, and giving the media a field day as the top story.
[4] On April 5, 2005, after a women's boxing match held at the coliseum, boxer Becky Zerlentes died of her injuries following a third-round knockout loss to Heather Schmitz.