UFC 51

UFC 51: Super Saturday

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Information
Promotion Ultimate Fighting Championship
Date February 5, 2005
Venue Mandalay Bay Events Center
City Las Vegas, Nevada
Attendance 11,072 (Paid: 9,268)[1]
Total gate $1,493,000
Buyrate 105,000
Event chronology

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UFC 51: Super Saturday was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on February 5, 2005 (Super Bowl weekend) at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event was broadcast live on pay-per-view in the United States and Canada, and later released on DVD.

History

Loretta Hunt, news editor for Sherdog.com, reports, "I know for a fact the UFC was considering a female bout between Erica Montoya and the late Shelby Walker a few years ago."[2] About this planned but never realized fight, "Big Dog" Benny Henderson Jr. asked Shelby Walker, "It has been rumored that you may fight Erika Montoya at UFC 51, is there any truth to those rumors?" Walker replied, "Yeah there is truth to those rumors, it has been talked about a lot and when I asked Dana White if he was going to put us on the show he said possibly, so that is where it stands right now. I haven’t heard anything more from this but my biggest dream would be to fight in the UFC."[3]

The event was also to be held in Japan, but UFC President Dana White moved it back to Las Vegas. Headlining the card were fan favorites Tito Ortiz and Vitor Belfort.

This was the last UFC event to feature a non-title matchup as the main event instead of an also-scheduled title fight on the same card. All future UFC events with title matches featured one as the main event until UFC 196.

Results

Main Card
Weight class Method Round Time Notes
Light Heavyweight Tito Ortiz def. Vitor Belfort Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28) 3 5:00
Middleweight Pete Sell def. Phil Baroni Submission (guillotine choke) 3 4:19
Heavyweight Andrei Arlovski def. Tim Sylvia Submission (achilles lock) 1 0:47 [lower-alpha 1]
Middleweight Evan Tanner def. David Terrell TKO (punches) 1 4:35 [lower-alpha 2]
Heavyweight Paul Buentello def. Justin Eilers KO (punch) 1 3:34
Preliminary card
Heavyweight Mike Kyle def. James Irvin KO (punch) 1 1:55 [lower-alpha 3]
Middleweight David Loiseau def. Gideon Ray TKO (doctor stoppage) 1 5:00
Welterweight Karo Parisyan def. Chris Lytle Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) 3 5:00
Welterweight Nick Diaz def. Drew Fickett TKO (punches) 1 4:40
  1. ↑ For the UFC Heavyweight Championship. Arlovski becomes the Interim Heavyweight champion. The title is an interim championship due to the UFC Heavyweight Champion, Frank Mir, being seriously injured in a motorcycle accident and not able to defend the title against No. 1 contender, Andrei Arlovski.
  2. ↑ For the UFC Middleweight Championship. Tanner becomes the UFC Middleweight champion filling the vacant title, and the first Middleweight champion since 2002.
  3. ↑ Although preliminary, this bout aired on the pay-per-view broadcast.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://boxing.nv.gov/MMAgates.htm
  2. ↑ Sherdog.com Staff, "-15340 The Doggy Bag: Readers Write, We Respond", Sherdog.com (November 30, 2008).
  3. ↑ "Big Dog" Benny Henderson Jr, "Shelby Walker: Not just another pretty face", DogHouseBoxing.com (January 21, 2005).
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