UFC Fight Night 8

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UFC Fight Night 8

Details
Promotion	Ultimate Fighting Championship
Date	January 25, 2007
Venue	Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
City	Hollywood, Florida
Event chronology
UFC Fight Night 7	UFC Fight Night 8	UFC Fight Night 9

UFC Fight Night 8 was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on Thursday, January 25, 2007 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. It was broadcasted live in the United States and Canada on Spike TV.

This card featured the debut of Heath Herring, a PRIDE and HERO'S veteran, in the UFC. Originally scheduled for the main card was a bout between middleweight contestants Nathan Marquardt and Dean Lister; it is believed that Spike TV influenced the eventual decision to remove the bout from the main card.^[1]

1 Results
- 1.1 Preliminary card
- 1.2 Main card
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Results

[edit] Preliminary card

[edit] Welterweight bout: Rich Clementi vs. Ross Pointon

Clementi defeats Pointon by submission (rear naked choke) in round two. This preliminary bout was not aired on the broadcast.

[edit] Lightweight bout: Clay Guida vs. Din Thomas

Thomas defeats Guida by unanimous decision. The judges at ringside all scored the bout 29-28 for Thomas. This preliminary bout was not aired on the broadcast.

[edit] Middleweight bout: Ed Herman vs. Chris Price

Herman defeats Price by submission (armbar) at 2:58 in round one. This preliminary bout was aired on the broadcast after the Herring vs. O'Brien bout.

[edit] Welterweight bout: Josh Burkman vs. Chad Reiner

Burkman defeats Reiner by unanimous decision. The judges at ringside scored the bout 29-28, 29-28, and 30-27 for Burkman. This preliminary bout was not aired on the broadcast.

[edit] Middleweight bout: Nathan Marquardt vs. Dean Lister

Marquardt defeats Lister by unanimous decision. The judges at ringside scored the bout 30-27, 30-25, and 30-25 for Marquardt. This preliminary bout was not aired on the broadcast.

[edit] Main card

[edit] Lightweight bout: Hermes Franca vs. Spencer Fisher

Franca defeats Fisher by technical knockout due to strikes at 4:03 in round two.

[edit] Heavyweight bout: Heath Herring vs. Jake O'Brien

O'Brien defeats Herring by unanimous decision. The judges at ringside scored the bout 29-28, 30-27, and 30-27 for O'Brien.

[edit] Light Heavyweight bout: Rashad Evans vs. Sean Salmon

Evans defeats Salmon by knockout (head kick) at 1:06 in round two. Salmon was unconscious for several minutes after suffering the knockout blow, and was eventually carried on a stretcher to a hospital.^[2] UFCJunkie.com, Salmon's sponsor for this fight, later reported that on his condition, saying that he improved and was released from the hospital^[3] before he himself filed a report detailing the day leading up to the fight and the going into further detail.^[4]