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 12,100 (paid 8,597) [1]
Total Gate $1,293,035
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.

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[edit] Results

[edit] Preliminary Card

Edwards defeats Thomson by knockout (head kick) at 4:32 of round one.
Parisyan defeats Diaz by split decision. Judges score the bout 28-29, 29-28 and 30-27.
Lytle defeats Jhun by submission (guillotine choke) at 1:17 of round two

[edit] Main Card

Eilers defeats Kyle by knockout (punches) at 1:14 of round one.
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.
Liddell defeats White by knockout (punches) at 4:05 of round one.
In the swing bout of the evening, Joe Riggs defeats Joe Doerksen by submission from strikes at 3:39 of round two.
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.

[edit] Miscellanea

  • The total fighter payroll for UFC 49 was $535,000.[2]

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