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The Thomas & Mack Center is an arena on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is a state university , co-education university located in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America, known for its programs in History, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Hotel administration, Fine Arts, and Management Information Systems....
 in Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The facility was first opened in the summer of 1983. Its primary tenant is the UNLV men's basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
 team. It also hosts the National Finals Rodeo
National Finals Rodeo

The National Finals Rodeo, organized by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, is the premier championship rodeo event in the United States....
 annually. Since 1999, it also hosts the PBR World Finals. The facility also hosted the Las Vegas Thunder
Las Vegas Thunder

The Las Vegas Thunder were an independent professional ice hockey team competing in the International Hockey League . The team's home rink was at the Thomas & Mack Center....
 of the now defunct International Hockey League. The facility also hosts numerous other events, such as concerts, conventions, boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 cards, MMA
Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts is a Contact sport combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques, from a mixture of martial arts traditions and non-traditions, to be used in competitions....
 cards such as UFC 43
UFC 43

UFC 43: Meltdown was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on June 6, 2003, at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada....
 and PRIDE Fighting Championships 32 & 33
List of PRIDE events

Below is a list of mixed martial arts events scheduled and held by Pride Fighting Championships. |-!No.!Event!English name!Japanese name!Date held...
, and professional wrestling
Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is a non-competitive professional sport, where matches are prearranged by the Professional wrestling promotion List of professional wrestling terms#B, and is also considered an athletic performing art, containing strong elements of catch wrestling, mock combat and theatre....
 shows such as WWE No Way Out 2001
No Way Out (2001)

No Way Out was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Entertainment . It was the third such annual event and took place on February 25, 2001 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada....
, WWE Vengeance 2005
Vengeance (2005)

Vengeance was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment , which took place on June 26, 2005 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada....
 and WWE No Way Out 2008
No Way Out (2008)

No Way Out was the ninth annual WWE No Way Out professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment . It took place on February 17, 2008 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada....
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The Thomas & Mack Center is an arena on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is a state university , co-education university located in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America, known for its programs in History, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Hotel administration, Fine Arts, and Management Information Systems....
 in Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The facility was first opened in the summer of 1983. Its primary tenant is the UNLV men's basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
 team. It also hosts the National Finals Rodeo
National Finals Rodeo

The National Finals Rodeo, organized by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, is the premier championship rodeo event in the United States....
 annually. Since 1999, it also hosts the PBR World Finals. The facility also hosted the Las Vegas Thunder
Las Vegas Thunder

The Las Vegas Thunder were an independent professional ice hockey team competing in the International Hockey League . The team's home rink was at the Thomas & Mack Center....
 of the now defunct International Hockey League. The facility also hosts numerous other events, such as concerts, conventions, boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 cards, MMA
Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts is a Contact sport combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques, from a mixture of martial arts traditions and non-traditions, to be used in competitions....
 cards such as UFC 43
UFC 43

UFC 43: Meltdown was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on June 6, 2003, at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada....
 and PRIDE Fighting Championships 32 & 33
List of PRIDE events

Below is a list of mixed martial arts events scheduled and held by Pride Fighting Championships. |-!No.!Event!English name!Japanese name!Date held...
, and professional wrestling
Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is a non-competitive professional sport, where matches are prearranged by the Professional wrestling promotion List of professional wrestling terms#B, and is also considered an athletic performing art, containing strong elements of catch wrestling, mock combat and theatre....
 shows such as WWE No Way Out 2001
No Way Out (2001)

No Way Out was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Entertainment . It was the third such annual event and took place on February 25, 2001 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada....
, WWE Vengeance 2005
Vengeance (2005)

Vengeance was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment , which took place on June 26, 2005 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada....
 and WWE No Way Out 2008
No Way Out (2008)

No Way Out was the ninth annual WWE No Way Out professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment . It took place on February 17, 2008 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada....
. Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a Russian politician. He was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and also the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991....
 once spoke in the arena in March 2004 about his views on current world events. For ring events, the capacity is 19,522; for basketball, the capacity is 18,776.

The facility is named after two prominent Nevada bankers, E. Parry Thomas
E. Parry Thomas

E. Parry Thomas is a now-retired American banker who helped finance the development of the casino industry of Las Vegas, Nevada. Along with his business partner, Jerry Mack, Parry Thomas is credited with building Las Vegas into what it is today....
 and Jerome Mack, who donated the original funds for the feasibility and land studies.

In 2001, a smaller arena, Cox Pavilion
Cox Pavilion

The Cox Pavilion is a 2,472-seat indoor arena built in 2001 on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, more specifically adjacent to the school's primary indoor arena, the Thomas & Mack Center....
, was added to the complex; the two arenas are directly connected. Cox Pavilion is used for smaller events; its main tenants are the UNLV women's basketball and volleyball programs.

It was the former home of the Arena Football League
Arena Football League

The Arena Football League was founded in 1987 in sports as an American football arena football. The AFL's attendance increased dramatically over its last few years, rising to an average of 12,415 people per game in 2007, and 12,957 per game in 2008, but the increases were accompanied by greatly increased expenses and debt, leading to the can...
's Las Vegas Sting
Anaheim Piranhas

The Anaheim Piranhas were a professional arena football team that played in the Arena Football League from 1994 Arena Football League season - 1997 Arena Football League season....
 and Las Vegas Gladiators
Las Vegas Gladiators

The Cleveland Gladiators are an Arena Football League franchise based in Cleveland, Ohio. The franchise was previously based in East Rutherford, New Jersey and later in Las Vegas, Nevada....
. In 2005 and 2006, the arena hosted the Arena Football League's ArenaBowl
ArenaBowl

The ArenaBowl is the Arena Football League's championship game. From 1987 to 2004, the ArenaBowl was hosted by either the team with the better regular-season record or the higher seeding in the playoffs....
. And it hosted the 2007 NBA All-Star Game
2007 NBA All-Star Game

The 2006-07 NBA season National Basketball Association NBA All-Star Game was played on Sunday, February 18, 2007 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States....
, marking the first time that this game was held in a city without an NBA
National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
 franchise. For the first time in NBA history, an on-campus college sports arena served as venue of an NBA All-Star Game.

The Thomas and Mack Center had also been an alternate home for the Utah Jazz
Utah Jazz

The Utah Jazz is a professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City, Utah. They are currently members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
 in the mid-1980s, and was where Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., then known as Lew Alcindor, is an American athlete and retired professional basketball player, widely considered one of the greatest National Basketball Association players of all time....
 broke Wilt Chamberlain
Wilt Chamberlain

Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain , nicknamed Wilt the Stilt, The Big Dipper, and Chairman of the Boards, was an American professional National Basketball Association basketball player for the Philadelphia Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers; and also played for the Harlem Globetrotters....
's record for points in a career in 1984. The 1994-95 Big West Conference
Big West Conference

The Big West Conference is an National Collegiate Athletic Association-affiliated Division I major college athletic conference that formerly sponsored Division I-A college football, through the 2000 season....
, 1997-99 Western Athletic Conference
Western Athletic Conference

The Western Athletic Conference was formed on July 27, 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 college athletic conferences currently participating in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ....
 and 2000-03 Mountain West Conference
Mountain West Conference

The Mountain West Conference , the youngest of the college athletic conferences affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association?s Division I FBS , officially began operations in July 1999 in sports....
 men's basketball tournaments were held there as well. The Mountain West Conference basketball tournament returned in 2007
2007 MWC Men's Basketball Tournament

The 2007 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament was played at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 8-10, 2007....
 and stayed until 2009.

In late 2007, CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 filmed part of the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American Police procedural television series. CSI premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The ninth season began airing on October 9, 2008 and currently airs in the United States of America on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m....
 episode, Bull
Bull

A bull is an adult male of various large mammal species including elk, moose, bovinae , elephants, whales, pinniped, and sea lions.Things...
, at the Thomas & Mack Center, which was hosting the PBR World Finals.

The FIBA Americas Championships 2007
Americas Championships 2007

The FIBA Americas Championships 2007 was a basketball tournament held at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada from August 22 to September 2....
 was held at Thomas & Mack Center from August 22 to September 2.

It was confirmed on 23 January that the center will host the upcoming light heavyweight
Light heavyweight

In boxing, the light heavyweight division is the boxing weight classes between cruiserweight and super middleweight. The light heavyweight class has produced some of boxing's greatest champions: Muhammad Ali , Tommy Loughran, Billy Conn, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, Bob Foster, Michael Spinks, Bernard Hopkins, Roy Jones Jr....
 boxing contest between undisputed super middleweight
Super middleweight

Super middleweight is a boxing Boxing weight classes that has a weight limit of 168 pounds. There was interest in a division between middleweight and light heavyweight in the 1970s, and a few states briefly recognized a "Junior Light Heavyweight" division at 167 pounds....
 champion Joe Calzaghe
Joe Calzaghe

Joseph William Calzaghe member of the Order of the British Empire, Order of the British Empire is an undefeated Welsh People former professional boxer....
 & reigning ring magazine champion Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins

Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins is an United States Boxing. He is best known for his ten year reign as Middleweight World Champion in which he defended his title a record 20 times....
 on April 19 2008.

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