The Ford Wyoming Center (formerly known as the Casper Events Center) is a multi-purpose

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Casper, Wyoming Casper is a city in, and the county seat of, Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is the second-largest city in the state, with the population at 59,038 as of the 2020 census. Only Cheyenne, the state capital, is larger. Casper is nic ...

, in the United States. The arena was built in April 1982. It seats 8,395 for

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and indoor football games, 8,842 for

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games, and up to 9,700 for

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s. It serves as the host of the

College National Finals Rodeo {{Unreferenced, date=October 2021 The College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR), sanctioned by the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA), is held every June. Since 1999, the CNFR has been held at the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper, Wyoming. B ...

in June and is also currently the home of Broadway in Casper theatre series. It has also hosted amateur wrestling tournaments and

UFC 6 ''UFC 6: Clash of the Titans'' was the sixth mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on July 14, 1995, at the Casper Events Center in Casper, Wyoming. The event was seen live on pay per view in the United States, and l ...

. It was home to the

Wyoming Cavalry The Wyoming Cavalry were an American professional indoor football team based in Casper, Wyoming. They were most recently members of the Intense Conference in the Indoor Football League (IFL). The Cavalry began play in 2000 as an expansion member ...

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team until 2014,

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hockey team and the

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of the

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. On January 7, 2021, it was announced that the Wyoming

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dealerships had purchased the naming rights to the arena for up to six years.

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