Orleans Arena
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| Orleans Arena | |
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| Location | 4500 W. Tropicana Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89103 |
| Broke ground | 2003 |
| Opened | 2003 |
| Owner | Coast Casinos |
| Operator | Coast Casinos |
| Surface | multi-surface |
| Tenants | Las Vegas Wranglers (ECHL) (2003-present) Las Vegas Gladiators (AFL) (2007) |
| Capacity | Boxing: 9,500[1] Concert: 8,921[1] Hockey: 7,773[1] Basketball: 7,471[1] Rodeo: 5,736[1] |
This article is about the multi-purpose arena in Las Vegas. For the similarly named arena found in Louisiana, see New Orleans Arena.
The Orleans Arena is a 9,500 seat multi-purpose arena in Paradise, Nevada. It is home to the Las Vegas Wranglers Ice hockey team and was the home of the Las Vegas Gladiators arena football team in 2007. It is located at the Orleans Hotel and Casino and is operated by Coast Casinos, a subsidiary of Boyd Gaming Corporation.
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- July 12, 2003-Ricardo Mayorga retained The Ring welterweight championship with a majority decision over Vernon Forrest, and Zab Judah defeated Demarcus Corley on the undercard.
- The First Las Vegas Wranglers game at the Orleans Arena was on October 21, 2003 in which a capacity crowd saw the Wranglers defeat the Bakersfield Condors 4-2.
- The Stanley Cup visited Orleans Arena on November 25, 2005.
- The arena was the site of the first ever NCAA tournament held in a venue connected to a casino with a sports book, the Las Vegas (College Basketball) Invitational from November 22-26, 2006 [1].
- In 2007, the Las Vegas Gladiators of the Arena Football League moved to the arena from the Thomas & Mack Center. The team failed to increase community interest and moved to Cleveland, Ohio for 2008.
- On March 7, 2007, Mikey Way of My Chemical Romance got married to his fiancee Alicia Simmons in the backstage area.
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| Preceded by Thomas & Mack Center |
Home of the Las Vegas Gladiators 2007 |
Succeeded by Quicken Loans Arena |
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