UFC 65
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| UFC 65: Bad Intentions | ||
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| Details | ||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |
| Date | November 18, 2006 | |
| Venue | ARCO Arena | |
| City | Sacramento, California | |
| Attendance | 15,350 (12,362 paid)[1] | |
| Total Gate | $2,138,000 | |
| Total Purse | $457,000 | |
| Event chronology | ||
| UFC 64: Unstoppable | UFC 65: Bad Intentions | UFC 66: Liddell vs. Ortiz 2 |
UFC 65: Bad Intentions was a mixed martial arts held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on November 18, 2006 at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California – the UFC’s first show at this venue.
The card featured the anticipated rematch between Matt Hughes and Georges St. Pierre for the UFC Welterweight Championship – a fight originally scheduled for UFC 63. UFC 65 also featured a heavyweight title bout between UFC Heavyweight Champion Tim Sylvia and Jeff Monson.
[edit] Results
[edit] Preliminary card
[edit] Heavyweight bout: Jake O'Brien vs. Josh Schockman
O'Brien defeats Schockman by unanimous decision. All three judges score the bout 30-27 for O'Brien. This preliminary bout was not aired on the broadcast.
[edit] Light Heavyweight bout: James Irvin vs. Hector Ramirez
Irvin defeats Ramirez by TKO due to strikes at 2:36 of round two. This preliminary bout was aired on the broadcast.
[edit] Heavyweight bout: Antoni Hardonk vs. Sherman Pandergarst
Hardonk defeats Pandergarst by knockout at 3:15 of round two. Pandergarst was a late replacement for Hardonk's original opponent, Brad Imes. This preliminary bout was aired on the broadcast.
[edit] Welterweight bout: Nick Diaz vs. Gleison Tibau
Diaz defeats Tibau by TKO (due to strikes) at 2:27 of round two. This preliminary bout was not aired on the broadcast.
[edit] Main card
[edit] Lightweight bout: Joe Stevenson vs. Dokonjonosuke Mishima
Stevenson defeats Mishima by submission (guillotine choke) at 2:07 of round one.
[edit] Heavyweight bout: Frank Mir vs. Brandon Vera
Vera defeats Mir by TKO (due to strikes) at 1:09 of round one.
[edit] Light Heavyweight bout: Alessio Sakara vs. Drew McFedries
McFedries defeats Sakara by submission (due to strikes) at 4:07 of round one. McFedries was a late replacement for Sakara's original opponent, Wilson Gouveia, who withdrew from the card.
[edit] Heavyweight Championship bout: Champion Tim Sylvia vs. Jeff Monson
Tim Sylvia retains the UFC Heavyweight Championship title and defeats Jeff Monson by unanimous decision after five rounds. Judges score the bout 50-45, 49-46, and 49-46 for Sylvia.
An apparently lackluster match, the ending announcement was met with a chorus of boos from the audience, which caused Sylvia to comment, ""A lot of them are after blood and guts. I followed my game plan to a T and won the fight." Monson sustained a separated rib during the match.[2]
[edit] Welterweight Championship bout: Champion Matt Hughes vs. Georges St. Pierre
Georges St. Pierre defeats Matt Hughes by TKO at 1:25 of round two to become the new UFC Welterweight Champion. In the first round, Hughes sustained two unintentional glancing kicks to or near his groin (Hughes admitted in the post-fight conference that the second kick was actually to the thigh, but made his leg go numb[citation needed]); after the second kick, St. Pierre was given a warning by referee "Big" John McCarthy. St. Pierre ended the round with a superman punch and a left hook to the head, stunning and knocking down Hughes right before the horn, nearly ending the match.
In the second round, St. Pierre ended the fight with a left high kick to the head – set up with a fake to an inside leg kick – which stunned Hughes and knocked him to the mat, followed by a flurry of punches and elbows, prompting the referee to halt the contest. [1]
[edit] Miscellanea
- UFC 65's original slated main event was a championship superfight with UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell defending his title against PRIDE Middleweight Champion Wanderlei Silva, a matchup UFC President Dana White announced during UFC 61 on July 8, 2006. Since then, the matchup appeared to have been postponed or cancelled because of contractual disagreements between the UFC and PRIDE, as White stated in several interviews. [3]
- The Hughes vs. St. Pierre main event was long in coming. It was first officially announced to happen at UFC 63 during the July 17, 2006 edition of the The Hot List on ESPNEWS. [4] The fight was before announced, without a date, at a press conference in Toronto, Canada on April 7, 2006, and the matchup was alluded to—but not officially announced—during the PPV broadcast of UFC 58.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Davidson, Neil (November 19, 2006). Canada rules UFC welterweight ranks as Georges St. Pierre topples Matt Hughes. Yahoo! News Canada. Retrieved on November 22, 2006.
- ^ FitzGerald, Tom. "Fighting outside the box", San Francisco Chronicle, 2006-11-26. Retrieved on 2006-12-12.
- ^ Davidson, Neil (August 11, 2006). UFC Backs Off Liddell vs. Silva Claims. Canadian Press. Retrieved on November 23, 2006.
- ^ MMANews.com staff. "Full Recap Of UFC's Major Announcement On ESPN's "Hot List"", MMANews.com, 2006-07-17. Retrieved on 2006-09-25.
- ^ Canadian Press. "FINALLY! RUSH GETS HIS SHOT AT THE TITLE!", TKO Major League MMA Website, 2006-04-07. Retrieved on 2006-09-25.
