UFC 76
| UFC 76: Knockout | ||||
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 The poster for UFC 76: Knockout | ||||
| Information | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | September 22, 2007 | |||
| Venue | Honda Center | |||
| City | Anaheim, California | |||
| Attendance | 13,770 (11,817 paid) | |||
| Total gate | $1,985,000 | |||
| Buyrate | 475,000[1] | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC 76: Knockout was a mixed martial arts (MMA) pay-per-view event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The event took place on September 22, 2007, at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Although the event was advertised with the subtitle Knockout, the entire card produced no knockouts whatsoever.
Background[edit]
The main event was anticipated to be Chuck Liddell versus Wanderlei Silva, a match between the two former champions of the UFC and PRIDE, respectively; however, the main event featured a fight between former Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell and The Ultimate Fighter 2 alum Keith Jardine, with both fighters returning from knockout losses at UFC 71.
Also appearing on the card was 2005 Pride Middleweight Grand Prix Champion and future UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Maurício Rua, who made his Octagon debut against TUF 1 winner Forrest Griffin.
Welterweight Diego Sanchez returned after his decision loss at UFC 69 to Josh Koscheck when he faced Jon Fitch, a training partner of Koscheck and a former Purdue University wrestler who was in the midst of a thirteen-fight win streak.
A scheduled bout between the light heavyweights Jason Lambert and Wilson Gouveia was removed from the card after Gouveia suffered a severely broken nose during training. A replacement for Gouveia was not found.[2]
With the card left with only eight bouts instead of nine, the UFC scheduled a fight between Rich Clementi and Anthony Johnson to fill out the remainder of the card.[3]
None of the preliminary bouts made it to the PPV due to the length of all the main card bouts.
Results[edit]
| Main card (PPV) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Light Heavyweight | Keith Jardine | def. | Chuck Liddell | Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Forrest Griffin | def. | Maurício Rua | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 3 | 4:45 | |
| Welterweight | Jon Fitch | def. | Diego Sanchez | Decision (split) (30–27, 28–29, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Lyoto Machida | def. | Kazuhiro Nakamura | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | [a] |
| Lightweight | Tyson Griffin | def. | Thiago Tavares | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Preliminary card | |||||||
| Catchweight (177 lbs) | Rich Clementi | def. | Anthony Johnson | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 2 | 3:05 | |
| Lightweight | Jeremy Stephens | def. | Diego Saraiva | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Heavyweight | Christian Wellisch | def. | Scott Junk | Submission (heel hook) | 1 | 3:19 | |
| Lightweight | Matt Wiman | def. | Michihiro Omigawa | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
Bonus awards[edit]
$40,000 was awarded to each of the fighters who received one of these three awards:
- Fight of the Night: Tyson Griffin vs. Thiago Tavares[5]
- Knockout of the Night: None
- Submission of the Night: Forrest Griffin[6]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ http://mmapayout.com/blue-book/pay-per-view/ [dead link]
- ^ Savage, Greg (September 10, 2006). "UFC 76 Loses Fight After Gouveia Injury". Sherdog.com. Retrieved September 10, 2007.
- ^ "UFC 76: Rich Clementi vs. Anthony Johnson". UFCMania.com. Retrieved September 14, 2007.
- ^ "Nakamura Tests Positive for Marijuana". Nokaut. September 27, 2007. Archived from the original on January 30, 2013. Retrieved September 27, 2007.
- ^ "MMA Archives".
- ^ "MMA Archives".
