UFC 49

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UFC 49: Unfinished Business

Details
Promotion	Ultimate Fighting Championship
Date	August 21, 2004
Venue	MGM Grand Arena
City	Las Vegas, Nevada
Attendance	8,597 paid[1]
Total Gate	$1,293,000
Event chronology
UFC 48: Payback	UFC 49: Unfinished Business	UFC 50: The War of '04

UFC 49: Unfinished Business was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on August 21, 2004, at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event was broadcasted live on pay-per-view in the United States, and later released on DVD. It featured the anticipated rubber match between concurrent Light Heavyweight Champion Vitor Belfort and Randy Couture, following a disappointing doctor's stoppage in their last encounter at UFC 46.

1 Results
- 1.1 Preliminary Card
- 1.2 Main Card
2 Miscellanea
3 See also
4 Sources

[edit] Results

[edit] Preliminary Card

[edit] Lightweight Bout: Yves Edwards vs. Josh Thomson

Edwards defeats Thomson by knockout (head kick) at 4:32 of round one.

[edit] Welterweight Bout: Karo Parisyan vs. Nick Diaz

Parisyan defeats Diaz by split decision. Judges score the bout 28-29, 29-28 and 30-27.

[edit] Welterweight Bout: Chris Lytle vs. Ronald Jhun

Lytle defeats Jhun by submission (guillotine choke) at 1:17 of round two.

[edit] Main Card

[edit] Heavyweight Bout: Justin Eilers vs. Mike Kyle

Eilers defeats Kyle by knockout (punches) at 1:14 of round one.

[edit] Middleweight Bout: Matt Lindland vs. David Terrell

David Terrell, in his UFC debut, scores an upset and defeats Matt Lindland by knockout at :24 in round one. Before the fight, Lindland was touted as the number one middleweight in the UFC.

[edit] Light Heavyweight Bout: Chuck Liddell vs. Vernon White

Liddell defeats White by knockout (punches) at 4:05 of round one.

[edit] Middleweight Bout: Joe Riggs vs. Joe Doerksen

In the swing bout of the evening, Joe Riggs defeats Joe Doerksen by submission from strikes at 2:39 of round two.

[edit] Light Heavyweight Championship Bout: Champion Vitor Belfort vs. Randy Couture

In the main event of the evening, Randy Couture defeats Vitor Belfort by technical knockout (doctor stoppage) at the end of round three. Belfort maintains that, sometime in the fight, Couture struck him with an unintentional headbutt, resulting in the laceration that eventually caused an end to the fight. Couture becomes the UFC Light Heavyweight champion for the second time.