| The Oklahoma City Ford Center is a multipurpose | | | | seating capacity of up to 19,675; club seats of 3,380; |
| indoor arena that hosts sports events, musical | | | | seven party suites and 49 private suites. It is an |
| concerts and other shows, school sporting events | | | | important feather in Oklahoma City's cap, as citizens |
| and community events. Tenants of the center are | | | | of OK and visitors have one great place to hang out |
| the NBA team Oklahoma City Thunder, Central | | | | and catch all the intense sporting action of NBA's |
| Hockey League team Oklahoma City Blazers and the | | | | Oklahoma City Thunder, CHL's Oklahoma City Blazers, |
| Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz of the Arena football2 | | | | and af2's Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz. The Center |
| league (af2). | | | | has also hosted "RAW", "SmackDown!", and |
| The Ford Center was an MAPS initiative and was | | | | "Unforgiven 2005" WWE events. The next big |
| conceived in order to improve the entertainment | | | | sporting event is the 2009 Big 12 Conference Men's |
| options in OK. The project was passed by voters of | | | | Basketball Tournament. A UFC event is also |
| OK in 1993. Construction, however, began only in | | | | scheduled to be held in 2009. |
| 1999 and was completed in June 2002. Owned by | | | | If you are not looking for sports, the Ford Center is |
| OK, it is close to the 15,000-seat Cox Convention | | | | also home to great musical concerts and other |
| Center. Clashing sporting events are generally held | | | | exciting events. These events include community |
| simultaneously at the two venues. | | | | programs as well as informative and highly |
| The Ford Center is architecturally similar to the Ford | | | | entertaining hi-tech shows based on different |
| Field stadium in Detroit. This 586,000-square foot | | | | subjects of interest, ice shows, and more. |
| Center is OK's largest indoor arena, with a four level | | | | |