ADVERTISEMENT
Shop at Jay’s Market at 190 East Flamingo Road at the Koval Lane intersection east of the Strip.
ADVERTISEMENT
By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — UFC owner TKO Group Holdings and T-Mobile Arena have agreed on a multi-year extension that will have UFC and WWE events at the arena just off the Strip through 2030.
UFC will hold at least four events annually, while WWE will stage two events a year at the arena that opened in April 2016.
TKO Group Holdings owns both UFC and WWE, with UFC serving as an anchor tenant at T-Mobile Arena along with the NHL Vegas Golden Knights. It’s a unique arena business relationship where a fight show promotion like UFC is a venue tenant because arena tenants are usually sports team franchises.
UFC President/CEO Dana White said five of UFC’s ten biggest gates have happened at T-Mobile Arena and he expects to break more gate records at the venue. T-Mobile Arena has hosted 20 sold-out UFC fight shows.
MGM Resorts International and Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) partnered to build the $175 million arena that had a groundbreaking on May 1, 2014. Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley later bought a 15 percent share of the arena.
“AEG and T-Mobile Arena have been tremendous partners over the past eight years, and we’re thrilled to expand this relationship across TKO to include both UFC and WWE events,” said Peter Dropick, TKO executive vice president for Event Development and Operations.
PSA
*