Archive for July, 2009:
US$1.8 Million Pay-out for UFC 100
Main event winners Brock Lesnar and Georges St-Pierre received the bulk of the US$1.8 Million UFC 100 pay-out, both fighter pocketed US$400,000 according to MMAJunkie.com.
This heavily promoted (and much anticipated) MMA event yielded 10,871 in attendance with 9,793 paying fans which has the total gate earnings of $5,128,490.
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UFC 101: Declaration
UFC 101: Declaration will feature the second title defense of Lightweight Champion BJ Penn against Kenny Florian, the match up will be held at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 8, 2009.
The co-main event will be a non-title Light Heavyweight bout for Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva against former Light Heavyweight Champion Forrest Griffin. Here’s the complete UFC 101 fight card:
Preliminary card
- Welterweight bout: Jesse Lennox vs. Danillo Villefort
- Lightweight bout: George Sotiropoulos vs. George Roop
- Welterweight bout: Matt Riddle vs. Dan Cramer
- Middleweight bout: Thales Leites vs. Alessio Sakara
- Welterweight bout: Tamdan McCrory vs. John Howard
UFC 100 Fight Results
At the conclusion of the much awaited UFC 100 held last nigh (July 11, 2009) at the Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas Nevada, here’s the results:
Preliminary card:
- Lightweight bout: Shannon Gugerty defeated Matt Grice via submission (guillotine choke) at 2:36 of round 1.
- Middleweight bout: Tom Lawlor defeated C.B. Dollaway via submission (guillotine choke) at 0:55 of round 1.
- Welterweight bout: Kim defeated Grant via unanimous decision (30–26, 30–26, 30–26).
- Light Heavyweight bout: Jon Jones defeated Jake O’Brien via submission (modified guillotine choke) at 2:43 of round 2.
- Lightweight bout: Jim Miller defeated Mac Danzig via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).
- Light Heavyweight bout: Mark Coleman defeated Stephan Bonnar via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28).
UFC’s Ultimate 100 Greatest Fights Last Part (5 of 5)
Although I was surprised when I found out what was the number 1 UFC’s Ultimate 100 Greatest Fights but I wasn’t really disappointed given the importance of the match to both fighters, a 6 digit contract was at stake. Although Forrest Griffin came out to be the winner of the Ultimate Fighter 1, UFC President Dana White announced that not 1 but 2 6 digit contract will be awarded.
Personally, I would have wanted the Hughes vs. Trigg part 2 to be on the top spot, to complete our list, here’s the top 10 of UFC’s Ultimate 100 Greatest Fights:
UFC’s Ultimate 100 Greatest Fights Part 4
The countdown for UFC’s Ultimate 100 Greatest Fights is almost complete, the fourth installment of the five part UFC – Spike TV special were matches that rocked fights fans around the world. My personal favorite would be GSP vs. Matt Hughes part 3, Chuck ‘the Iceman’ Lidell vs. Tito Ortiz Part 2 and Forrest Griffin vs. Quinto ‘the Rampage’ Jackson.