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In terms of big-time major fights involving world-class fighters there are a good number of venues that can make that claim in the past decade.

If I've overlooked a venue or two, feel free to add them, along with a list of their biggest fights in the past decade to support that claim.

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

how about Moscow? i suppose that enough notable fights taken place there in the last decade to make it involved to the list.

Klitschko vs Povetkin
Usyk vs Gassiev
Lebedev vs Kalenga
Drozd vs Włodarczyk
Włodarczyk vs Chakhkiev

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Klitschko vs Charr
Povetkin vs Takam
Drozd vs Masternak
Povetkin vs Perez
Povetkin vs Charr
Drozd vs Janik
Lebedev vs Kołodziej

and probably other title fights too

what about any venue in Germany? Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Gerry Weber Arena, Max Schmeling Halle?

You missed out the O2 Arena.. Loads of events there over the past 10 years.

Also, I take it Madison Square Garden, NYC has included fights at The Theatre.

I really think there should be more events at MEN Arena. Shame!

Also, Staples is a nice arena.

Can see how much the MGM has been used since T-Mobile opened.

Also, what about any Asian venue? Korakuen hall in Tokyo or Macau?

dagilechia wrote: ↑16 Apr 2019, 07:37 how about Moscow? i suppose that enough notable fights taken place there in the last decade to make it involved to the list.

Thanks for the input. It has to be a specific VENUE in Moscow, not just anywhere in Moscow. Do you know which specific venue in Moscow has had the most big fights?

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑16 Apr 2019, 09:37 You missed out the O2 Arena.. Loads of events there over the past 10 years.

Also, I take it Madison Square Garden, NYC has included fights at The Theatre.

I really think there should be more events at MEN Arena. Shame!

Also, Staples is a nice arena.

Can see how much the MGM has been used since T-Mobile opened.

I included 3 Khan fights from MEN Arena under Manchester Arena (from before they changed the name). Froch-Groves I is from the brief period that venue was called "Phones4u Arena". What other fights should I include for MEN besides the 3 Khan fights from 2009-2011? Two Calzaghe bouts (Bika, Lacy) and Hatton-Tszyu would have been included except they were held in 2005-06, WELL over a decade ago.

MGM Grand has seen a slight downturn since T-Mobile was built but Mandalay Bay has lost even more big fights than MGM in past few years. If we went back to 2000 Mandalay would be top 3 because they were battling MGM Grand head-to-head for the first 10 years of the 21st century.

Best Coast wrote: ↑17 Apr 2019, 02:56 Thanks for the input. It has to be a specific VENUE in Moscow, not just anywhere in Moscow. Do you know which specific venue in Moscow has had the most big fights?

Olimpiyskiy/Luzhniki (as far as i know it's the same arena) had like 90% fights i've mentioned including Klitschko vs Povetkin and Usyk vs Gassiev

Best Coast wrote: ↑17 Apr 2019, 03:13 I included 3 Khan fights from MEN Arena under Manchester Arena (from before they changed the name). Froch-Groves I is from the brief period that venue was called "Phones4u Arena". What other fights should I include for MEN besides the 3 Khan fights from 2009-2011? Two Calzaghe bouts (Bika, Lacy) and Hatton-Tszyu would have been included except they were held in 2005-06, WELL over a decade ago.

Sorry mate you misunderstood. I didn’t mean you have missed some fights at MEN. I mean there should be more boxing at the MEN in general.

Today i'll search interesting venues (european and asian) and i'll make a list

Best Coast wrote: ↑17 Apr 2019, 03:13 I included 3 Khan fights from MEN Arena under Manchester Arena (from before they changed the name). Froch-Groves I is from the brief period that venue was called "Phones4u Arena". What other fights should I include for MEN besides the 3 Khan fights from 2009-2011? Two Calzaghe bouts (Bika, Lacy) and Hatton-Tszyu would have been included except they were held in 2005-06, WELL over a decade ago.

Think he was alluding to the fact that the Theatre at MSG is its own venue than the big MSG arena itself.....
A lot of the fights are actually in the smaller theatre.

i was wrong Luzhniki and Olimpiyskiy are different arenas

Cotai Arena, Macao:

Pacquiao vs Rios
Pacquiao vs Algieri
Donaire vs Vetyeka
Walters vs Darchinyan
Vazquez vs Shafikov
Lomachenko vs Tatakhun
Rigondeaux vs Yotjan
Ruenroeng vs Zou
Vargas vs DeMarco
Estrada vs Melindo
Gradovich vs Dib
Gradovich vs Munoz
Gradovich vs Miskirtchian
Cuenca vs Yang

Olimpiyskiy, Moscow:

Usyk vs Gassiev
Klitschko vs Povetkin
Klitschko vs Charr
Drozd vs Masternak

Luzhniki, Moscow:

Lebedev vs Kalenga
Drozd vs Janik
Povetkin vs Takam
Povetkin vs Perez
Povetkin vs Charr
Povetkin vs Rudenko
Chakhkiev vs Fragomeni

Dynamo Palace of Sports in Krylatskoye, Moscow:

Pirog vs Ishida
Drozd vs Włodarczyk
Włodarczyk vs Chakhkiev
Lebedev vs Kołodziej

Salle des Etoiles, Monaco:

Golovkin vs Murray
Golovkin vs Ishida
Golovkin vs Osumanu
Budler vs Silvestre
Budler vs Xiong
McDonnell vs Solis
Sosa vs Smith
Caballero vs Hall
Allakhverdiev vs M'baye
Joyi vs Loreto
Bursak vs Arron
Haskins vs Lamiri

Max Schmeling Halle, Berlin

Usyk vs Huck
Huck vs Lebedev
Huck vs Afolabi
Huck vs Richards
Abraham vs Oral
Braehmer vs Gutknecht
Bundu vs Shabani

the last one (most of them are not making it to the top 10 but these are the venues that came to my mind)

Prudential Center, Newark:

Głowacki vs Huck
Gassiev vs Włodarczyk
Adamek vs Banks
Adamek vs Gunn
Judah vs Mabuza
Judah vs Matthysse

Fightnight Scores wrote: ↑17 Apr 2019, 07:18 Think he was alluding to the fact that the Theatre at MSG is its own venue than the big MSG arena itself.....
A lot of the fights are actually in the smaller theatre.

Thanks for the input!! Under two conditions I count certain venues as one venue:

1. Smaller theaters or rooms inside MSG are still counted as MSG as long as it's in the same building

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.

dagilechia wrote: ↑17 Apr 2019, 08:08 Olimpiyskiy, Moscow:

Usyk vs Gassiev
Klitschko vs Povetkin
Klitschko vs Charr
Drozd vs Masternak

Of all the venues you listed this one deserves special mention. Klitschko-Povetkin & Usyk-Gassiev are probably the 2 most important fights ever held in Russia in its brief pro boxing history!! Russia didnt even have pro boxing until about 1990 or so, which means less than 3 decades of pro boxing.

Once I get time to find the dates of those bouts you listed I will add Olympiyskiy to the Top 10 (Top 11) List.

Best Coast wrote: ↑18 Apr 2019, 02:40 Of all the venues you listed this one deserves special mention. Klitschko-Povetkin & Usyk-Gassiev are probably the 2 most important fights ever held in Russia in its brief pro boxing history!! Russia didnt even have pro boxing until about 1990 or so, which means less than 3 decades of pro boxing.

Once I get time to find the dates of those bouts you listed I will add Olympiyskiy to the Top 10 (Top 11) List.

2012-09-08 Vitali Klitschko vs Manuel Charr (WBC HW title fight)
2013-10-05 Grigory Drozd vs Mateusz Masternak (EBU CW title fight)
2013-10-05 Wladimir Klitschko vs Alexander Povetkin (IBF, WBA & WBO HW title fight)
2018-07-21 Oleksandr Usyk vs Murat Gassiev (WBC, IBF, WBA & WBO CW title fight)

Povetkin, Gassiev, Masternak and Charr lost their 0s in Olimpiyskiy Arena, Moscow.

+ Female boxing

2018-07-21 Cecilia Braekhus vs Inna Sagaydakovskaya (WBC, IBF, WBA & WBO WW title fight)

Thanks...I'll add that to the master list tomorrow...it's getting late & I'm tired right now.

Best Coast wrote: ↑18 Apr 2019, 02:34 Thanks for the input!! Under two conditions I count certain venues as one venue:

1. Smaller theaters or rooms inside MSG are still counted as MSG as long as it's in the same building

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.

Yeah, fair call of course. It's the same building either way

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