TOP 10 MAJOR FIGHT VENUES During the Past Decade

[dagilechia]

Would imagine the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium/Bodymaker Collosseum/EDION Arena Osaka (1 venue with 3 names) and the Ota City Gymnasium would be on the fringes of top 10. On a mobile so not checking at the moment, but a lot of big fights at both

oh, i forgot about Japan! i'm going to make a list right now

[Boxing Prospect]

oh, i forgot about Japan! i'm going to make a list right now

In terms of MOST USED venue that'll be Korakuen Hall but how many bouts count as significant is up for debate (maybe 4 world title bouts a year, a few eliminators, a looooot of domestic bouts)

[dagilechia]

In terms of MOST USED venue that'll be Korakuen Hall but how many bouts count as significant is up for debate (maybe 4 world title bouts a year, a few eliminators, a looooot of domestic bouts)

yes i see that now, it's a hard task to make a list of the best fights held in Korakuen Hall but it surely deserves a mention

[dagilechia]

Ariake Colosseum, Tokyo:

Inoue vs Parrenas
Inoue vs Carmona
Inoue vs Kono
Inoue vs Rodriguez
Yaegashi vs Mendoza
Yaegashi vs Tecuapetla
Yaegashi vs Basapean
Melindo vs Yaegashi
Shiro vs Lopez
Higa vs Navarrete
Wonjongkam vs Kameda
Jaigrajang vs Kuroki
Uchiyama vs Miura
N'Dam N'Jikam vs Murata
Shimoda vs Li Lee

[dagilechia]

Kokugikan, Tokyo:

Nery vs Yamanaka
Yamanaka vs Tunacao
Yamanaka vs Guevara
Yamanaka vs Carlson
Nishioka vs Munroe
Yaegashi vs Igarashi
Yaegashi vs Sosa
Miura vs Diaz
Shiro vs Guevara
Higa vs Masson
Iwasa vs Saulong
Murata vs N'Dam N'Jikam II

[keirw]

O2 in London has to be the busiest venue in the UK (and possibly Europe) for big fights.

21/05/11 Degale vs Groves
25/05/13 Froch vs Kessler 2
30/05/15 Brook vs Gavin (poor fight, but huge card)
12/12/15 Joshua vs Whyte
09/04/16 Martin vs Joshua
25/06/16 Joshua vs Breazele
10/09/16 Golovkin vs Brook
04/04/17 Haye vs Bellew
24/03/18 Whyte vs Browne
05/05/18 Bellew vs Haye 2
28/07/18 Whyte vs Parker
22/12/18 Whyte vs Chisora 2
23/02/19 Degale vs Eubank Jr


No real 'superfights' but lots of good fights, particularly at heavyweight

[Ruthless-RKO]

2. A venue that changes names but stays in the same building counts as one venue, like Manchester Arena, which started in 1990s as M.E.N. Arena then briefly became Phones4U Arena around 2013. After P4U company went out of business it became Manchester Arena, which is what it goes by now.

It was actually Nynex Arena when it first opened. It was MEN for a looong time. 2001 til 2012 I think.

People still just refer it as MEN.

[Best Coast]

O2 in London has to be the busiest venue in the UK (and possibly Europe) for big fights.

21/05/11 Degale vs Groves
25/05/13 Froch vs Kessler 2
30/05/15 Brook vs Gavin (poor fight, but huge card)
12/12/15 Joshua vs Whyte
09/04/16 Martin vs Joshua
25/06/16 Joshua vs Breazele
10/09/16 Golovkin vs Brook
04/04/17 Haye vs Bellew
24/03/18 Whyte vs Browne
05/05/18 Bellew vs Haye 2
28/07/18 Whyte vs Parker
22/12/18 Whyte vs Chisora 2
23/02/19 Degale vs Eubank Jr


No real 'superfights' but lots of good fights, particularly at heavyweight

Thanks!! Looks like mostly regional fights...probably top 15 globally!!

[Best Coast]

yes i see that now, it's a hard task to make a list of the best fights held in Korakuen Hall but it surely deserves a mention

Absolutely!! Korakuen is an iconic venue in the fight game!! When I get time maybe I will see if I can figure out which global venue has the most fight cards, regardless of importance.

[Best Coast]

The master list grows to 11 with the addition of Olympiyskiy in Moscow. Thanks to Dagilechia for bringing that one up!!

MGM Grand, Las Vegas
1/19/19 Pac-Broner
6/9/18 Crawford-Horn
1/28/17 Santa Cruz-Frampton II
7/23/16 Crawford-Postol
4/9/16 Pac-Bradley III
9/12/15 Mayweather-Berto
6/20/15 Porter-Broner
5/2/15 Floyd-Pac
1/17/15 Wilder-Stiverne I
9/13/14 Floyd-Maidana II
7/12/14 Canelo-Lara
5/3/14 Floyd-Maidana I
4/12/14 Pac-Bradley II
3/8/14 Canelo-Angulo/Santa Cruz-Mijares
9/14/13 Floyd-Canelo/D. Garcia-Matthysse
5/4/13 Floyd-Guerrero
12/8/12 JM Marquez-Pac III
6/9/12 Pac-Bradley I
5/5/12 Floyd-Cotto/Canelo-Mosley
11/12/11 Pac-Marquez II
9/17/11 Floyd-Ortiz
5/7/11 Pac-Mosley
3/12/11 Cotto-Mayorga
5/1/10 Floyd-Mosley
11/14/09 Pac-Cotto
9/19/09 Floyd-Marquez
5/2/09 Pac-Hatton

T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas
5/4/19 Canelo-Jacobs
9/15/18 Canelo-GGG II
9/16/17 Canelo-GGG I
8/26/17 Floyd-McGregor
5/6/17 Canelo-Chavez Jr
11/19/16 Ward-Kovalev I
5/7/16 Canelo-Khan

Madison Square Garden, NYC
6/1/19 Joshua-Miller
4/20/19 Crawford-Khan
12/15/18 Canelo-Fielding
12/8/19 Loma-Pedraza
10/27/18 Jacobs-Derevyanchenko
5/12/18 Loma-Linares
12/9/17 Loma-Rigo
5/20/17 Crawford-Diaz
3/18/17 GGG-Jacobs/Wangek-Chocolatito II
6/11/16 Loma-Martinez
2/27/16 Crawford-Lundy
10/17/15 GGG-Lemieux
4/25/15 Wlad-Jennings
7/26/14 GGG-Geale
6/7/14 Cotto-S Martinez
1/25/14 M Garcia-Burgos
11/2/13 GGG-Stevens
4/20/13 Fury-Cunningham
1/19/13 GGG-Rosado/M Garcia-Salido
12/1/12 Trout-Cotto
12/3/11 Cotto-Margarito II
5/15/10 Khan-Malignaggi
6/13/09 Cotto-Clottey

Wembley Stadium, London
9/22/18 Joshua-Povetkin
4/29/17 Joshua-Wlad
5/31/14 Froch-Groves II

AT & T Stadium, Arlington, TX
3/16/19 Spence-Garcia
9/17/16 Canelo-L Smith
11/13/10 Pac-Margarito
3/13/10 Pac-Clottey

Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY
5/18/19 Wilder-Breazeale
9/8/18 Porter-D Garcia
3/3/18 Wilder-Ortiz
1/20/18 Spence-Peterson
11/4/17 Wilder-Stiverne II
10/14/17 Charlo-Lubin/Hurd-Trout
7/29/17 M Garcia-Broner
3/4/17 Thurman-D Garcia
1/14/17 Gervonta-Pedraza
7/30/16 Frampton-Santa Cruz
6/25/16 Thurman-Porter
4/11/15 D Garcia-Peterson
4/7/13 D Garcia-Judah
3/9/13 Hopkins-Cloud

Staples Center, Los Angeles
4/12/19 Loma-Crolla
12/1/18 Wilder-Fury
7/28/18 M Garcia-Easter
6/9/18 Santa Cruz-Mares II
1/23/16 D Garcia-Guerrero
8/29/15 Santa Cruz-Mares I
10/15/11 Hopkins-Dawson
9/17/11 Canelo-Gomez
9/18/10 Canelo-Baldomir/Mosley-Mora
5/22/10 R Marquez-I Vazquez III
9/6/09 Vitali-Arreola
1/24/09 Mosley-Margarito

Manchester Arena/MEN Arena/Phones4u Arena, Manchester
12/22/18 Warrington-Frampton
11/10/18 Usyk-Bellew
6/9/18 Hooker-Flanagan
2/7/18 Groves-Eubank Jr
12/10/16 Joshua-Molina
2/27/16 Frampton-Quigg
12/9/15 Saunders-Lee
11/23/13 Froch-Groves I
4/16/11 Khan-McCloskey
7/8/09 Khan-Kotelnik
3/14/09 Khan-Barrera

Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas
2/17/18 D Garcia-RIos
6/17/17 Ward-Kovalev II
11/21/15 Canelo-Cotto
7/25/15 Kovalev-Mohammedi
3/30/13 Alvarado-Rios II
7/14/12 D Garcia-Khan
7/23/11 Khan-Judah
2/19/11 Nonito-Montiel
12/11/10 Khan-Maidana
7/31/10 JM Marquez-J Diaz
4/3/10 Hopkins-R Jones Jr
4/11/09 Wright-Paul Williams

Stub Hub Center/Home Depot Center/Dignity Health Sports Park, Carson, CA
3/9/19 Porter-Ugas
2/9/19 Gervonta D-Ruiz
5/5/18 GGG-Martirosyan
9/9/17 Wangek-Chocolatito I
10/18/14 GGG-Rubio
6/21/14 Loma-Russell
8/24/13 Santa Cruz-Terrazas/Mares-J Gonzalez
3/16/13 Bradley-Provodnikov
10/13/12 Alvarado-RIos 1/Nonito-Nishioka
5/14/11 Ward-Abraham

Olympiyskiy Arena, Moscow, Russia
7/21/18 Usyk-Gassiev
10/5/13 Wlad-Povetkin/Drozd-Masternak
9/8/12 Vitali-Charr

[dagilechia]

Absolutely!! Korakuen is an iconic venue in the fight game!! When I get time maybe I will see if I can figure out which global venue has the most fight cards, regardless of importance.

i am very disappointed, i thought that Korakuen held much more good bouts

Korakuen Hall, Tokyo:

Ao vs Larios
Rojas vs Ao
Li Lee vs Udomna
Ioka vs Navarrete
Yaegashi vs Seeta
Sato vs Kaikanha
Kono vs Wangmuk
Roman vs Matsumoto
Doheny vs Iwasa
Saludar vs Taniguchi

+ 40-50 female world championship bouts

[Best Coast]

i am very disappointed, i thought that Korakuen held much more good bouts

Korakuen Hall, Tokyo:

Ao vs Larios
Rojas vs Ao
Li Lee vs Udomna
Ioka vs Navarrete
Yaegashi vs Seeta
Sato vs Kaikanha
Kono vs Wangmuk
Roman vs Matsumoto
Doheny vs Iwasa
Saludar vs Taniguchi

+ 40-50 female world championship bouts

In terms of super fights, Korakuen is clearly NOT a top 25 venue, but their upside is total fight cards per year:

2018: 92 shows
2017: 113 shows

Do you know of another venue ANYWHERE that has over 100 total fight cards per year in this century?

[Ruthless-RKO]

In terms of super fights, Korakuen is clearly NOT a top 25 venue, but their upside is total fight cards per year:

2018: 92 shows
2017: 113 shows

Do you know of another venue ANYWHERE that has over 100 total fight cards per year in this century?

How many does York Hall have??

[dagilechia]

How many does York Hall have??

2018: 40 events
2017: 24 events

[Ruthless-RKO]

2018: 40 events
2017: 24 events

Hmm.. thought it’d be busier.

40 events ain’t too bad for a year. Considering there is 52 weeks in a year.

[Boxing Prospect]

In terms of super fights, Korakuen is clearly NOT a top 25 venue, but their upside is total fight cards per year:

2018: 92 shows
2017: 113 shows

Do you know of another venue ANYWHERE that has over 100 total fight cards per year in this century?

Korakuen is very much a domestic tier venue, about 2,000 fit in there. Most the cards are relatively small domestic cards, and many of the bigger bouts there aren't even shown live (though are often on tape delay), with some of the Dynamic Glove and SOME Dangan cards shown live, on G+ or Boxing Raise.

Incredibly busy venue, with SOME sort of "combat sport" there pretty much daily (be it boxing, kick boxing or wrestling).

In terms of ACTION it's probably in the top venues (a lot of the Japanese domestic cards have at least 1 fantastic bout if not 2 or 3) and the atmosphere for a good domestic clash is incredible. They don't call it the Holy Ground for nuffink!

[dagilechia]

Korakuen is very much a domestic tier venue, about 2,000 fit in there. Most the cards are relatively small domestic cards, and many of the bigger bouts there aren't even shown live (though are often on tape delay), with some of the Dynamic Glove and SOME Dangan cards shown live, on G+ or Boxing Raise.

Incredibly busy venue, with SOME sort of "combat sport" there pretty much daily (be it boxing, kick boxing or wrestling).

In terms of ACTION it's probably in the top venues (a lot of the Japanese domestic cards have at least 1 fantastic bout if not 2 or 3) and the atmosphere for a good domestic clash is incredible. They don't call it the Holy Ground for nuffink!

what is the usual attendance there?

[Best Coast]

Hmm.. thought it’d be busier.

40 events ain’t too bad for a year. Considering there is 52 weeks in a year.

I seriously doubt there is a venue anywhere that can match Korakuen as BUSIEST venue in boxing (or as our buddy Boxing Prospect points out, combat sports in general).

[Boxing Prospect]

what is the usual attendance there?

Depends on the quality of show. Regularly looks full for the bigger shows (those with a domestic title bout or higher), worst I've seen it is about 60% full.

[dagilechia]

Depends on the quality of show. Regularly looks full for the bigger shows (those with a domestic title bout or higher), worst I've seen it is about 60% full.

wow considering the amount of events per year its a great result