UFC 58
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| Details | ||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |
| Date | March 4, 2006 | |
| Venue | Mandalay Bay Events Center | |
| City | Las Vegas, Nevada | |
| Attendance | 9,569 (8,183 paid) [1] | |
| Total Gate | $1,758,450 | |
| Buyrate | 290,000-300,000 [2] | |
| Event chronology | ||
| UFC 57: Liddell vs Couture 3 | UFC 58: USA vs Canada | UFC 59: Reality Check |
UFC 58: USA vs Canada was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on March 4, 2006. It was held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, and broadcast live on pay-per-view in the United States. In keeping with the theme of the card, each fight featured an American fighter against a Canadian fighter.
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[edit] Results
[edit] Preliminary card
- Heavyweight bout:
Icho Larenas vs. 
Tom Murphy
Murphy defeats Larenas via a TKO in the third round at 1:59. Larenas was a late substitute for Christophe Midoux. This was a preliminary fight that did not air on the pay-per-view broadcast.
- Light heavyweight bout: Rob MacDonald vs. Jason Lambert
- Lambert defeats MacDonald via a submission with a kimura in the first round at 1:54 . This was a preliminary fight that did not air on the pay-per-view broadcast.
- Lightweight bout: Sam Stout vs. Spencer Fisher
- Stout defeats Fisher by split decision. Fisher was a late replacement for Kenny Florian, who got injured during training for this fight. This was the UFC's first lightweight match since the division was suspended in 2004. This was a preliminary fight that did not air on the pay-per-view broadcast, though it did later air on an episode of UFC Unleashed on Spike TV.
[edit] Main card
- Lightweight bout: Mark Hominick vs. Yves Edwards
- Hominick defeats Edwards via submission with a triangle armbar in the second round at 1:52.
- Middleweight bout: Joe Doerksen vs. Nathan Marquardt
- Marquardt defeats Doerksen in a unanimous decision.
- Welterweight bout: Georges St. Pierre vs. B.J. Penn
- St. Pierre defeats Penn in a split decision. The winner of this match would become #1 contender for the Welterweight Title.
- Middleweight bout: Steve Vigneault vs. Mike Swick
- Swick defeats Vigneault via submission with a guillotine choke in the first round at 2:09.
- Middleweight championship bout: Champion Rich Franklin vs. David Loiseau
- Franklin defeats Loiseau in a unanimous decision and retains the UFC middleweight title. Franklin broke his left hand during the second round, but continued to fight until the end of the bout. He ultimately won by unanimous decision, with judges scoring the bout 50-42, 50-42, and 50-43.
[edit] Fighter Payouts
Georges St. Pierre: $48,000
Rich Franklin: $32,000
Nathan Marquardt: $30,000
BJ Penn: $25,000
Tom Murphy: $10,000
Mike Swick: $10,000
David Loiseau: $9,000
Spencer Fisher: $8,000
Yves Edwards: $8,000
Rob Macdonald: $5,000
Joe Doerksen: $5,000
Jason Lambert: $4,000
Mark Hominick: $4,000
Sam Stout: $4,000
Icho Larenas: $3,000
Steve Vigneault: $2,000
Total Fighter Payouts: $207,000
[edit] Miscellanea
- The show drew a live gate of $1,758,450. [3]
- The disclosed fighter payroll for UFC 58 was $207,000. [4]
- Five of the seven Canadian fighers featured, Icho Larenas, Sam Stout, Mark Hominick, Georges St. Pierre, and David Loiseau, were at the time champions in the Canadian TKO Major League MMA promotion.
- The final scorecard for "USA VS Canada": United States 5, Canada 3
[edit] References
[edit] Sources
- Mixed martial arts show results, Mandalay Bay, 03-04-06 (PDF), Nevada State Athletic Commission, retrieved March 20, 2006
- "Franklin Dominates Loiseau; 'Rush' Beats Penn at UFC 58" by Thomas Gerbasi, UFC.tv, March 5, 2006, retrieved March 5, 2006
- UFC PPV Buys Explode in 2006
- UFC Fighter Salaries for 2006 (includes fighter salaries for UFC 58)
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