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MMA and Casinos: A Perfect Pairing

When it comes to MMA and casinos, they go hand-in-hand. There is nothing like the glitz and glamor of a casino to add to the big fight night. Las Vegas has long had a standing tradition of fight nights, and this is even more true when it comes to MMA. It used to be that MMA wasn’t well thought of, a poorer cousin to boxing. However, times have changed a lot, and now people want the excitement of MMA alongside their boxing. AmericanCasinos.com looks at some of the best places to host your MMA fights inside casinos.

When it comes to MMA, gambling has always gone along with it, so combining the two in one place is only logical. Having a fight inside a casino means ready access to people who want to bet on that fight and a place for those people to do it. We look at some of the best venues for this to happen in.

The Palms Resort Casino

Ah, Las Vegas, this is the big one when it comes to gambling, and there is no better place than the Palms for hosting your big MMA fight night. There is a long tradition of UFC taking place at the Palms, and this goes back to when it was World Extreme Cage Fighting. The finals of the Ultimate Fighter have been hosted here since 2005, and so there is no finer place for an MMA showdown, right in the heart of a casino.


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Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino

This casino plays host to the only publicly traded MMA association in the world, and that is Alliance MMA. It signed a deal with the resort in Hollywood, to hold its MMA fights at the casino. During the course of 2018, it hosted a number of Alliance MMA events at the resort, as well a number of other linked resorts. In total Alliance MMA has hosted nearly 100 fights in 2018 all over the casino and resort arena. This includes the likes of Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City. The CEO of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Paul K. Danner, has commented on the long association between the Seminole community and the hosting of sporting events.

The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino – Las Vegas

A deal was recently signed to hold the King of the Cage contests exclusively at this casino in Las Vegas. King of the Cage is one of the longest-running MMA organizations in the world, and to have such a prestigious location for its fights is superb. The first ever event was held here on Oct. 17, 2015, and there have been regular events here ever since.

Foxwoods Resort Casino

This casino has hosted three of the MMA world’s major fighting events since 2014. There were the World Series of Fighting 20 and the World Series of Fighting 24 tournaments, as well as some of the UFC fight nights. This is one of the most popular destination resorts in Connecticut and is well suited for MMA.


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