How Big Is The Mgm Grand Garden Arena

Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

MGM Grand Garden Arena

Concert bowl and seating c. 2008
Former names	MGM Grand Sports Center (planning/construction) MGM Grand Garden Special Events Center (1993–95)
Address	3799 Las Vegas Blvd S Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Location	Las Vegas Strip
Public transit	Las Vegas Monorail at MGM Grand
Owner	MGM Resorts International
Capacity	15,020 - permanent seating 17,000 - with bleachers[1]
Construction
Broke ground	October 7, 1991; 30 years ago  (1991-10-07)
Opened	December 18, 1993; 27 years ago  (1993-12-18)
Renovated	1997, 2000
Construction cost	$28.4 million
Architect	Veldon Simpson-Architect, Inc.
General contractor	Taylor International Corporation
Tenants
Las Vegas Dustdevils (CISL) (1994) Las Vegas Sting (AFL) (1994) Frozen Fury (NHL) (1997–2015)
Website
www.mgmgrand.com/entertainment/grand-garden-arena.aspx

The MGM Grand Garden Arena (originally known as the MGM Grand Garden Special Events Center) is a 17,000-seat multi-purpose arena located within the MGM Grand Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip.

Sporting events [edit]

From its opening on December 18, 1993, until the opening of the MGM co-owned T-Mobile Arena in 2016, MGM Grand Garden Arena along with the Thomas & Mack Center and Mandalay Bay Events Center were the main sports arenas in the Las Vegas area.

Professional wrestling [edit]

From 1996 to 2000, it hosted World Championship Wrestling's Halloween Havoc events. The UWF television event Blackjack Brawl was held at the venue in 1994.

On May 25, 2019, it hosted All Elite Wrestling's inaugural event, Double or Nothing (2019).^[2] Tickets for the event sold out in four minutes.^[3] It was originally scheduled to host Double or Nothing (2020) on May 23, 2020, and the May 27 episode of AEW Dynamite, but was moved due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[4]

Combat sports [edit]

The arena is well known for numerous professional boxing superfights, such as Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II, Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr., Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo Álvarez, Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao, and Deontay Wilder vs. Tyson Fury II.

On September 7, 1996, the Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson bout was held here; later that night, rapper Tupac Shakur (who attended the fight) was shot in a drive-by attack. He succumbed to his injuries six days later.^{[ citation needed ]}

The arena held 42 Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts events, starting with UFC 34 in 2001 and ending with The Ultimate Fighter 23 Finale in 2016. UFC currently uses the T-Mobile Arena for major events.

On May 2, 2015, Floyd Mayweather Jr. defended his world title in a highly anticipated match against fellow superstar Manny Pacquiao. The fight continued to the 12th round and Mayweather retained his title. Within the crowd, celebrities such as hip-hop artist Jay-Z, UFC fighter Ronda Rousey and former NBA superstar Michael Jordan were present.

Professional sports [edit]

In 1994, the Las Vegas Dustdevils, an indoor soccer team in the Continental Indoor Soccer League played one season at the arena. It also previously served through 2015 as the pre-season home for select Los Angeles Kings games against the Colorado Avalanche, Phoenix Coyotes and San Jose Sharks, known as Frozen Fury.^{[ citation needed ]} Two more games occurred at the new T-Mobile Arena before the launch of the NHL's newest team, the Vegas Golden Knights, who went on to play in the NHL's Stanley Cup Playoffs within their first season.

On October 24, 2014, it held an NBA preseason game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings.

College sports [edit]

During the 1990s, the arena served as the site for the WAC women's volleyball tournament.

On March 13, 2012, it was announced that the Pac-12 Men's Basketball Tournament would take place at the arena from at least 2013 through 2016^{[5] [6]} and then to T-Mobile Arena in 2017 until 2020.

Beginning in 2014, the MGM Grand Garden Arena will host The MGM Resorts Main Event, an 8-team college basketball tournament held during Monday and Wednesday of Thanksgiving week of NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The MGM Grand Main Event features two four-team brackets, with each team playing two games in Las Vegas. Opening round games are played on campus.

Bull riding [edit]

The Professional Bull Riders (PBR) held its annual World Finals event at the MGM Arena from 1994 to 1998 before moving to the Thomas & Mack Center in 1999 and then to T-Mobile Arena in 2016. The PBR later returned on June 11 and 12, 2021 for an Unleash the Beast Series event in its first visit to the MGM Arena since 1998.

Entertainment events [edit]

Latin Grammy Awards [edit]

The MGM Grand Garden Arena is the current home of the Latin Grammy Awards, having hosted it five times. The arena hosted the Latin Grammy Awards in 2014, 2015, and from 2017 to 2019.

Academy of Country Music Awards [edit]

The venue is the current home of the Academy of Country Music Awards and has served as host twelve times since 2006, including 2018's event which was the first following the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, which occurred roughly 1 mile away.^[7]

Phish Halloween [edit]

Improvisational jam band Phish has hosted several significant halloween concerts at the venue. On October 31, 2014, they performed Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House with original instrumental music to accompany the album as their "musical costume" for the second set of their Halloween night show at the venue. Following that performance, the band has made their interpretation of "Martian Monster" a regular part of their concert repertoire and have performed it at over 25 subsequent concerts. On October 31, 2016, the band covered David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars in its entirety as their musical costume for the evening. On October 31, 2018, the band performed a set of all-new original material that they promoted as a "cover" of í rokk by Kasvot Växt, a fictional 1980s Scandinavian progressive rock band they had created.

Other events [edit]

Entertainment events at MGM Grand Garden Arena
Date	Nationalities	Artists	Events	Supporting Acts	Attendance	Box Office
1994
April 16	United States	Janet Jackson	janet. World Tour[8]	N/A	N/A	N/A
October 14	United States	The Rolling Stones	Voodoo Lounge Tour	Buddy Guy	21,674 / 21,674 (100%)	$4,184,050
October 15
1996
August 2	United States	Gloria Estefan	Evolution World Tour	N/A	N/A	N/A
November 2	United States	Kiss	Alive/Worldwide Tour[9]	N/A	13,030 / 13,030 (100%)	$587,330
1997
May 10	United States	Tina Turner	Wildest Dreams Tour	Cyndi Lauper	13,267 / 13,267 (100%)	$448,485
November 14	United Kingdom	The Bee Gees	One Night Only Tour	Celine Dion	N/A
November 22	United Kingdom	The Rolling Stones	Bridges to Babylon Tour	Jamiroquai	12,750/ 12,750 (100%)	$2,925,800
December 14	United States	Aerosmith	Nine Lives Tour[10]	N/A
1998
February 14	United Kingdom	Elton John	Big Picture Tour[11]	N/A	14,126 / 14,126	$1,425,200
1999
April 16	United Kingdom	The Rolling Stones	No Security Tour	Sugar Ray	12,566 / 12,566	$2,780,450
September 25	United Kingdom	Elton John	Medusa Tour[12]	N/A	8,500 / 8,500	$1,760,020
2000
April 29	United States	Tina Turner	Twenty Four Seven Tour	Lionel Richie Janice Robinson	N/A
May 27	United States	Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band	Reunion Tour	N/A
July 1	United States	All That	All That! Music and More Festival	Hoku, B*Witched, LFO and Blaque	N/A
August 4	United States	Britney Spears	Oops!... I Did It Again Tour	Mikaila Josh Keaton Aaron Carter A–Teens	N/A
November 18	United States	Tina Turner	Twenty Four Seven Tour	Joe Cocker	N/A
November 19
2001
August 18	United States	Aerosmith	Just Push Play Tour[13] [14]	N/A
September 1	United States	Madonna	Drowned World Tour	N/A	29,587 / 29,587	$6,503,950
September 2
November 17	United States	Britney Spears	Dream Within a Dream Tour[ citation needed ]	O-Town Mpress	24,638 / 24,638	$1,561,214
November 18
2002
April 23	United States	Green Day Blink-182	Pop Disaster Tour[15]	N/A
September 21	Canada	Rush	Vapor Trails Tour
November 9	United States	Aerosmith	Girls of Summer Tour[16] [17]	Kid Rock Run DMC
November 30	United States	The Rolling Stones	Licks Tour	Lifehouse	N/A
2003
February 8	United Kingdom	The Rolling Stones	Licks Tour	Susan Tedeschi	N/A
October 24	United States	Aerosmith Kiss	AeroKiss Tour[18]	N/A	13,000	N/A
October 25					10,000
2004
March 6	United States	Britney Spears	The Onyx Hotel Tour[19]	Kelis Skye Sweetnam	13,297 / 13,297	$1,075,105
May 29	United States	Madonna	Re-Invention Tour	N/A	28,341 / 28,341	$7,005,548
May 30
2005
November 4	Ireland	U2[20] [ circular reference ]	Vertigo Tour[21]	Damian Marley	31,863 / 31,863	$3,864,843
November 5
November 18	United Kingdom	The Rolling Stones	A Bigger Bang Tour	Jason Mraz	13,898 / 13,898 (100%)	$4,053,289
2006
February 18	United States	Aerosmith	Rockin' the Joint Tour[22] [23]	Lenny Kravitz	13,199 / 13,199	$1,726,263
May 27	United States	Madonna	Confessions Tour	N/A	27,528 / 27,528	$7,257,750
May 28
August 12	Colombia	Shakira	Oral Fixation Tour	Wyclef Jean
November 22	United Kingdom	The Rolling Stones	A Bigger Bang Tour	Bonnie Raitt	N/A
December 26	Hong Kong	Kelly Chen	Kelly Chen Lost In Paradise World Tour
January 18	United States	Miley Cyrus	Best of Both Worlds Tour[24] [25]	Aly & A.J.	N/A
January 19
January 20
May 9	United States	Alicia Keys	As I Am Tour	Jordin Sparks Ne-Yo	N/A
2008
June 2008	United Kingdom	George Michael	25 live tour
April 25	United States	Britney Spears	The Circus Starring Britney Spears[26] [27]	The Pussycat Dolls	15,728 / 15,728	$2,482,352
July 25	United States	Aerosmith ZZ Top	Aerosmith/ZZ Top Tour[28] [29] [30]	N/A
2010
April 24	United States	Eagles	Long Road Out of Eden Tour[31]	N/A	12,970 / 12,970	$1,631,745
June 18	United Kingdom	Sting	Symphonicity Tour[32] [33]	N/A
July 31	United States	Aerosmith	Cocked, Locked, Ready to Rock Tour[34]	Sammy Hagar	N/A
August 28	Canada	Michael Bublé	Crazy Love Tour	Naturally 7	13,300 / 13,300	$1,052,585
2011
June 25	United States	Britney Spears	Femme Fatale Tour[35] [36]	Nicki Minaj Jessie and the Toy Boys NERVO DJ Pauly D Destinee & Paris	N/A
September 23	United States	Bruno Mars	The Doo-Wops & Hooligans Tour	Mayer Hawthorne Donnis
November 5	United States	Eagles	Long Road Out of Eden Tour	N/A
November 19
2012
October 13	United States	Madonna	MDNA Tour	Martin Solveig	24,991 / 24,991	$7,188,879
October 14
September 30	Canada	Justin Bieber	Believe Tour	Cody Simpson Carly Rae Jepsen	13,504 / 13,504	$1,076,868
December 1	United States	Aerosmith	Global Warming Tour	N/A
2013
May 11	United Kingdom	The Rolling Stones	50 & Counting	N/A	13,327 / 13,327 (100%)	$6,119,172
June 29	United States	Beyoncé	The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour	Luke James	12,913/12,913	$1,856,203
August 3	United States	Bruno Mars	Moonshine Jungle Tour	Fitz and the Tantrums	13,850 / 13,850	$1,559,042
November 23	Canada	Michael Bublé	To Be Loved Tour	Naturally 7	12,474 / 12,474	$1,148,568
2014
February 15	United States	Eagles	History of the Eagles – Live in Concert	N/A
March 1		Miley Cyrus	Bangerz Tour	Icona Pop Sky Ferreira	N/A
July 19	United States	Lady Gaga	Artrave: The Artpop Ball[37] [38]	Lady Starlight	24,948 / 24,948	$2,379,981
August 1
August 2	United States	Aerosmith	Let Rock Rule Tour	N/A
September 26	United States	Katy Perry	Prismatic World Tour[39] [40] [41]	Tegan and Sara Ferras	12,886 / 12,886	$1,742,965
2015
May 30	Ireland	The Script	No Sound Without Silence Tour	Colton Avery Mary Lambert	N/A
August 1	United States	Aerosmith	Blue Army Tour	N/A
October 24	United States	Madonna	Rebel Heart Tour[42] [43]	Lunice	12,787 / 12,787	$3,524,113
2016
February 5	Australia	AC/DC	Rock or Bust World Tour	Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown	13,817 / 13,817	$1,416,474
March 25	Canada	Justin Bieber	Purpose World Tour[44]	Post Malone Moxie Raia	13,483 / 13,483	$1,411,304
August 13	United States	Demi Lovato & Nick Jonas	Future Now Tour	Mike Posner	6,823 / 7,112	$404,492
September 17	United Kingdom	Black Sabbath	The End Tour[45]	Rival Sons	11,835 / 11,835	$1,025,145
2017
February 4	United States	Ariana Grande	Dangerous Woman Tour	Little Mix Victoria Monét	9,437 / 10,787	$845,275
March 27	N/A	Game of Thrones	Live Concert Experience[46] [47] [48] [49]		4,783 / 7,321	$328,286
April 1	United States	Jimmy Buffett	I Don't Know Tour	N/A
April 7	United States	Green Day	Revolution Radio Tour[50]	Against Me!	11,659 / 11,907	$686,810
May 12	United States	Train	Play That Song Tour	Natasha Bedingfield O.A.R.	N/A
May 27	United States	Dead & Company	Dead & Company Summer Tour 2017	N/A	10,258 / 11,685	$1,052,921
July 8	United States	J. Cole	4 Your Eyez Only World Tour	N/A
2018
February 3	United States	The Killers	Wonderful Wonderful World Tour	Amanda Brown Albert Hammond Jr.	N/A
March 3	United States	Demi Lovato	Tell Me You Love Me World Tour	DJ Khaled Kehlani	11,133 / 11,675	$720,336
August 25	United States	Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson	Twins of Evil: The Second Coming Tour	Deadly Apples
September 1	Colombia	Shakira	El Dorado World Tour	Salva
2019
July 13	Australia	Hugh Jackman	The Man. The Music. The Show. tour
September 13	United Kingdom	Iron Maiden	Legacy of the Beast World Tour
December 15	United States	Ariana Grande	Sweetener World Tour	N/A

Gallery [edit]

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Coordinates: 36°6′17.31″N 115°10′7.01″W  /  36.1048083°N 115.1686139°W  / 36.1048083; -115.1686139

How Big Is The Mgm Grand Garden Arena

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