MGM Grand Garden Arena
is located in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is patterned after New York's Madison Square Garden. The arena has a seating capacity of 17,157 people and is located at 3799 Las Vegas Boulevard South.
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Notable events hosted
MGM Grand Garden Arena is home to
concerts, the annual
FOX Billboard Music Awards, the annual
Andre Agassi Grand Slam for Children Benefit, the
VH1 Divas Las Vegas shows, and other sporting and special events such
boxing and
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) PPV events. From 1996-2000, it hosted wrestling's
WCW Halloween Havoc PPV event. The
UWF television event
Backjack Brawl was held at the venue in 1994.
Athletic Events
In 1994, the
Las Vegas Dustdevils an
indoor soccer team in the
Continental Indoor Soccer League played one season in the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The arena also serves as the pre-season home for select
Los Angeles Kings home games against the
Colorado Avalanche known as the
Frozen Fury.
Concerts
Barbra Streisand christened the arena by performing two concerts on
December 31,
1993 and
January 1,
1994. At the time, the concerts were her first for paying customers in close to twenty-seven years. She would return to the Grand Garden Arena two more times: ringing in the Millennium on
December 31,
1999 and
January 1,
2000 and a November 18 stop on her 2006 concert tour.
Famous Persian popstar,
Googoosh performed in the arena for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day of 2000 as part of her
Googoosh Comeback Tour.
On
November 18,
2001,
Britney Spears broadcast her concert live on
HBO and attracted huge ratings. The concert was part of her
Dream Within a Dream Tour. In order for the broadcast to work with the time differences, Spears performed at five o'clock at night. Spears performed at the Garden once during her
Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour, twice during her
Dream Within a Dream Tour, and once during her
Onyx Hotel Tour. All four shows sold out almost instantly.
Janet Jackson played one night at the Arena on
August 29,
1998, as part of her sold-out tour
The Velvet Rope Tour. The show sold out in 13 minutes, setting a personal record, previously held by her
1990 concert at the Los Angeles'
Staples Center, from her
Rhythm Nation 1814 Tour, which sold out in 18 minutes. Jackson returned in 2001 for two consecutive concerts on october 5 and october 6 as part of her
All for You Tour.
Dave Matthews Band played two nights at the Grand Garden Arena on March 23 & 24, 2007. Both shows were released on June 5, 2007 as part of the DMB Live Trax series, as
Live Trax 9.
British pop group
The Spice Girls announced on
June 28,
2007 that they would be going on an 11-city world tour, including a stop at the MGM Grand Garden. The Las Vegas arena is one of 21 North American stops on their much-anticipated reunion tour, however their performance at the MGM has now been moved to accommodate the Ricky Hatton - Floyd Mayweather fight.
The newly reconstituted
Van Halen with legendary frontman
David Lee Roth are booked for two shows at the Garden Arena on
December 28 and
30,
2007.
Miley Cyrus extended her successful
Best of Both Worlds Tour and performed for three nights at the arena, with guest stars
Aly & AJ who took over the
Jonas Brothers.
Madonna is booked to play two shows here on her highly anticipated
Sticky and Sweet Tour on 8 and 9
November 2008.
Boxing matches hosted
The arena is noted by the prized championship
boxing fights hosted there. Some of the prominent fights that the Garden Arena has hosted includes:
- Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson
- Naseem Hamed vs. Marco Antonio Barrera
- Oscar De La Hoya vs. Bernard Hopkins
- Manny Pacquiao vs. Erik Morales
- Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
- Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Ricky Hatton
- Kelly Pavlik vs. Jermain Taylor
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