MGM Grand Garden Arena

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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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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.

It also serves as the pre-season home for select Los Angeles Kings home games against the Colorado Avalanche which the games are known as Frozen Fury.

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.

On November 18, 2001, Britney Spears broadcasted 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.

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 only six 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.

The arena is noted by the prized championship boxing fights hosted there. Some of the prominent fights that the Garden Arena has hosted includes:

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