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Orleans Arena
Location	4500 W. Tropicana Avenue, Las Vegas, NV 89103
Coordinates	36°6′21″N 115°12′8″W / 36.10583°N 115.20222°WCoordinates: 36°6′21″N 115°12′8″W / 36.10583°N 115.20222°W
Broke ground	2003
Opened	2003
Owner	Coast Casinos
Operator	Coast Casinos
Surface	multi-surface
Capacity	Boxing: 9,500; Concert: 8,921; Ice hockey: 7,773; Basketball: 7,471; Rodeo: 5,736
Tenants
	Las Vegas Wranglers (ECHL) (2003-present); Las Vegas Gladiators (AFL) (2007); WCC Basketball Tournament (WCC) (2009-present); ArenaCup X (Af2) (2009); WAC Basketball Tournament (WAC) (2011)

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, and is also an occasional home for the UNLV Rebels basketball team when the Thomas & Mack Center is in use. It is located at the Orleans Hotel and Casino and is operated by Coast Casinos, a subsidiary of Boyd Gaming Corporation.

[edit] Notable events

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]. The 2009 West Coast Conference Championship Tournament would also take the same honor for a Division 1 conference tournament in March 2009.
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 in 2008.
On March 7, 2007, Mikey Way of My Chemical Romance got married to his fiancée Alicia Simmons in the backstage area.
From February 26-28, 2009, the NIAA State Basketball Championship was held at the Orleans Arena. All classifications (1A-4A) attended and played at this venue.

Preceded by Thomas & Mack Center	Home of the Las Vegas Gladiators 2007	Succeeded by Quicken Loans Arena