UFC 95 Full Results, Bonuses and Attendance Figures
by Chris Nelson on Feb 22, 2009 12:12 AM EST
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Diego Sanchez def. Joe Stevenson via Decision (Unanimous)
Dan Hardy def. Rory Markham via KO (Punch) at 1:09 of Round 1
Nate Marquardt def. Wilson Gouveia via TKO (Strikes) at 3:10 of Round 3
Demian Maia def. Chael Sonnen via Submission (Triangle Choke) at 2:37 of Round 1
Paulo Thiago def. Josh Koscheck via KO (Punch) at 3:29 of Round 1
Terry Etim def. Brian Cobb via TKO (Strikes) at 0:10 of Round 2
Junior Dos Santos def. Stefan Struve via TKO (Strikes) at 0:54 of Round 1
Evan Dunham def. Per Eklund via TKO (Strikes) at 2:13 of Round 1
Mike Ciesnolevicz def. Neil Grove via Submission (Heel Hook) at 1:03 of Round 1
Paul Kelly def. Troy Mandaloniz via Decision (Unanimous)
MMAWeekly reports on the night's bonuses:
UFC 95 AWARDS AND BONUSES
(All awards include a $40,000 bonus for each fighter.)UFC 95 Fight of the Night
– Diego Sanchez and Joe StevensonUFC 95 Knockout of the Night
– Paulo ThiagoUFC 95 Submission of the Night
– Demian Maia
This was Demian Maia's fourth "Submission of the Night" in five UFC fights.
The MMA Insider Blog has the scoop on the live gate and attendance at the O2:
The UFC treated fans watching UFC 95 on Setanta Sports to all 10 bouts on Saturday night in England. Even the British fans that weren't able to attend were able to see their countrymen fight, most of which faired well.
The fans that did make it to the O2 Arena treated the UFC to a strong attendance of 13,268, totaling ticket revenue of slightly more than $1 million U.S. Both are considered strong numbers during tough economic times, especially with a fight card sans a championship bout.
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My Internet died again, so pretend you hear these zingers live:
Terry Etim just made that guy’s skull look like a queasy bake oven.
Dan Hardy just made rory markham unlearn Algebra.
You suck neil Grove.
YEAH JOE DADDY
wtf why is he boxing
…WHY IS HE ONLY THROWING PUNCHES
GUILLOTINE CHOKE!
I hate you Joe Daddy.
At least he’s gonna win the 3rd round.
fml.
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
FWIW, this isn’t the first time Sanchez has had the Kings logo on his shorts.
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The way their playing their more the Sacramento Queens.
ZINGGGGGGGGGGG
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
Word, I dunno why I didn’t notice before. Just looked it up though, apparently he’s tight with the Maloofs.
by Chris Nelson on Feb 22, 2009 12:17 AM EST up reply actions
the broadcast here in the philippines did not show the marquard fight.. whats up with that..
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Yeah, I was disappointed as well.
There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
by misterjonez on Feb 22, 2009 12:30 AM EST up reply actions
the cable kept on going out, plus they didnt show the marquard fight.. There were lots of undercard fights shown so i dont get why they wouldnt show marquards.
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by Anton Tabuena on Feb 22, 2009 12:33 AM EST up reply actions
Very strange...
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 22, 2009 12:34 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah, continuity was really off.
What channel were you watching on?
There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
balls.. skycable.
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by Anton Tabuena on Feb 22, 2009 1:14 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah, same channel but different provider.
Sounds like the same problems, though.
There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
i thought balls was exclusively found in skycable only?
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by Anton Tabuena on Feb 22, 2009 3:19 AM EST up reply actions
I'm on some no-name
cable provider, but I get all the channels SkyCable does and then a few. The picture quality is pretty bad, but then SkyCable certainly isn’t hi-def either.
It’s just like being in the states…thirty years ago.
There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
Yeah that was weird. The sequence of fights wasn’t the same as the American broadcast as well. My cable was fine though.
so i guess maybe it was only in my area.. not showing one of the featured fights was a bummer though..
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by Anton Tabuena on Feb 22, 2009 1:15 AM EST up reply actions
Not to nitpick
But I’d would call Dunham’s victory a KO and Dos Santos’s a TKO, not vice-versa.
Eklund was clearly out cold on the mat…Struve was just beat up and not defending.
I changed ‘em both to TKO, at least that’s how the Fight Finder has them at the moment.
by Chris Nelson on Feb 22, 2009 12:24 AM EST up reply actions
Eh…I don’t buy Fight Finder’s accuracy half the time ;)
by Scott Haber on Feb 22, 2009 12:26 AM EST up reply actions
Bonus picks
FOTN – Gouveia vs Marquardt
KO – Thiago is fine though Hardy’s was pretty impressive too
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Yeah, Hardy’s was impressive, but I didn’t see Thiago’s KO coming. I thought for sure Kos would knock him out. I love MMA.
The upset factor in Thiago’s KO definitely elevates it over Hardy’s, but there’s no excuse for Marquardt/Gouveia not getting FotN, which is rapidly becoming SKBMotN (Shitty Kickboxing Match of the Night), especially when the UFC skips across the pond.
by Chris Nelson on Feb 22, 2009 1:03 AM EST up reply actions
Agreed. I was really looking forward to that fight and it delivered. Nate’s crazy Street Fighter combo at the end really capped it off.
It’s a crime that Nate didn’t get some kind of bonus for that. I got so excited that my wife came into the room to see what was going on and my three year old daughter spent the rest of the night trying to throw flying knees. That was the fight of the night, Sanchez vs Stevenson was a real letdown (I’d give it the WTF of the night award).
Marquardt/Gouveia was too one sided for FotN in my opinion. And Nate definitely got some locker room money for that fight.
A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
Lame, UFC, Lame!
UFC is really dropping the ball on FOTN bonuses. The Sanchez fight put me to sleep. This combo, run around for 30 seconds, combo, rinse, lather, repeat is an epidemic in MMA that must be stopped. Marquardt VS Gouveia should have been the main event anyway.
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I'm fine...
with the striking shown. Combination striking is much better than “big shot, bad kickboxing” that has been plaguing the sport. What bothers me is when you’ve got guys fighting a style that isn’t smart for 3 rounds when he is obviously losing and rather than change things up and try to win you jump around trying to pump the crowd up.
Sanchez’s striking was good and I don’t think there was much “running” as much as there was smart striking, I don’t want guys standing still throwing shots if they’re striking. I want to see footwork and head movement.
It certainly was not FOTN considering Stevenson refused to do anything to increase his chances of winning as the fight went on. He was content to spend the entire fight getting beat up on the feet and hoping to land a hail mary right.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 22, 2009 11:58 AM EST up reply actions
We’ll have to disagree on this. Combo is more credit than Sanchez deserves. He threw a couple of punches, and instead of backing up, set and counter, instead he ran. He ran like Kalib running. He was clearly the better fighter but Stevenson was the more aggresssive fighter. There is a difference between backing up to prepare a proper defense and counter attack versus hit and run. Lyoto Machida counter attacks, Diego Sanchez pulled a hit and run.
Definitely a disappointing fight
I knew the fight had won FOTN before watching it. I was pumped for a good fight but it turned out to be just meh….
Agreed – I don’t udnerstand why Stevenson didn’t mix things up…did he think he was winning?
Thiago’s KO didn’t look much like a real KO – Kos was in a world o’ hurt, but clearly not out. I certainly wouldn’t have minded seeing him take a few more shots to the face…
Wish I could have made the live blog – had to do the “family” thing tonight.
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by Scott C. Broussard on Feb 22, 2009 12:42 AM EST reply actions
that KO was a real 'holy shit' moment right there..
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by Anton Tabuena on Feb 22, 2009 12:59 AM EST up reply actions
Kos was not in residence on the way down, and even when he hit the floor, he wasn’t all there.
A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
Thank god for the stoppage
I winced asThiago towered over the fallen Koscheck with his arm raised, and braced myself as he poised to execute his dazed opponent. Thiago had mercy on Koscheck by not bashing with several more needless punches and the referee saved the day. Koscheck, you will live to fight another day.
Kos was Ko'ed
Come on, his eyes were rolling back, and looking at his face, he had no idea where he was. I’m so sick of dude’s protesting if they’re not knocked retarded. I’m in favor of every stoppage tonight and am glad no fighters were hurt like at Fight for the Troops.
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"And many men have eaten it." -- Goldy
yup.. i thought all stoppages there were good.. Everyone who just got knocked out had to whine and protest..
Its just like how nba players never commit fouls. :)
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by Anton Tabuena on Feb 22, 2009 3:18 AM EST up reply actions
seemed like a lot of complaints on the stoppages were flying around tonight, i didn’t see any problems either though. doubt it would of ended pretty if paulo wasn’t stopped
Paulo wasn’t stopped. He stopped himself. He literally just stood there like “Okay, my job is done” and that’s all it was.
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston Churchill
I seriously thought we were about to get a repeat of Cyborg/Baszler with that one.
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by Rundownloser on Feb 22, 2009 2:05 AM EST up reply actions
I disagree...
I think Koscheck was robbed, and I’m a bit shocked that most fans think it was fine. Koscheck was visibly eye rolling after the initial knockdown, but Paulo didn’t follow up immediately, and when he actually came in. Koscheck was LOOKING at Thiago, moving his arm to defend a strike, and moving his legs into position to anticipate a ground battle.
Intelligently able to defend yourself, I think he was moving into position to do so. I think it was a bad stoppage.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 22, 2009 10:13 AM EST up reply actions
Koscheck was visibly eye rolling after the initial knockdown
See, that’s where it ends for me. Kos has been lucky enough to receive the benefit of the doubt in past fights and has proven himself to be a guy who can take a ton of punishment, but a flash KO is a knockout nonetheless and the ref did the right thing stepping in.
by Chris Nelson on Feb 22, 2009 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
Kos has been lucky enough to receive the benefit of the doubt in past fights and has proven himself to be a guy who can take a ton of punishment
This is where it’s so important that a ref knows his stuff, including the fighters. Honestly, Kos definitely was out, but it looked like he recovered quickly, and I think he should have been given the benefit of the doubt, but whatever. It was shocking and I certainly didn’t see it coming.
That's the difference...
between MMA and boxing. In MMA if you’re out you don’t get time to come to…if a ref sees a guy go out he is going to stop the fight. Kos very visibly was out and hitting the ground woke him up.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 22, 2009 11:59 AM EST up reply actions
Why should it matter? The point is to protect a fighter who’s unable to protect himself. Koscheck was clearly able to defend himself once he hit the ground. The difference between a guy with an iron chin and one without is recovery time. Otherwise, MMA would be a game of lucky punches, whoever lands the first hard one wins. If this ref was reffing the Nogueira/Herring fight, then Herring would have won by KO because Nogueira was clearly out when the kick landed and was woozy for a good 5 seconds afterward.
That doesn’t matter at that point because Thiago wasn’t following up. If Thiago had simply followed with a few ground and pound punches, YES, I would agree, but he gave Koscheck the split seconds to recover enough to defend himself. Bad stoppage, I don’t understand why everyone else is saying it wasn’t.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 22, 2009 11:58 AM EST up reply actions
Agreed
Bad stoppage. I think the TKO barrier is ‘intelligently defending yourself’. Maybe Kos was flash KOed for .5 secs but I think he could have recoevered had Thiago jumped in at that point.
In my eyes it was a premature stoppage.
Taking the left hook to the head with no reaction, not even a twitch or painful wince other than to fall limply to the floor = the ref jumps in to stop an unconscious man from taking hits to the dome. The fact that the floor ignored the ref and hit him again waking him back up has no bearing.
A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
A completely unconscious man doesn’t start raising his legs and moving his arm to defend. That’s what everyone’s point seems to be, but it makes no sense to me. Ahh well, I can’t win this argument with a majority of the fanbase, but I still think it was premature.
Oh well, it can’t be changed.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 22, 2009 11:15 PM EST up reply actions
The fight was stopped as soon as the ref ran in to stop it, which was when Koscheck was falling to the floor.
A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
Wrong
Completely false. Koscheck went down, Thiago backed up, then Thiago moved in, then the referee came in and ended it. It was immediately when Koscheck was falling to the ground.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 22, 2009 11:59 AM EST up reply actions
You can see he is out when he gets hit. I think the safety thing comes into play here. MMA fans always point to boxing as a sport where a guy can get dropped and given 10 seconds to recover and take more punishment. Josh was knocked out and would likely have gotten pounded on without even the old “boxing 10 second recovery.” I thought it was a bad stoppage initially but rewatching the tape it is clear that he is out and that makes the stoppage solid. If he’d have gotten hit with a few more big shots after he fell and then it was stopped I think we’d be hearing a lot of cries that it should have been stopped as soon as he went down.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 22, 2009 12:04 PM EST up reply actions
Are you kidding me? Sure, you’re right. Koscheck is clearly out for the period when he got hit and got put to the floor, but as Thiago moved in Koscheck rocked back, began putting his feet back up, and moved his hand to try to block a potential shot.
I don’t care if everyone believes he was out. Past UFC events and past referees usually give these guys at least a chance. How come Grice vs. Veach wasn’t stopped multiple times then? Because it’s the referee’s discretion. I understand that, but this was an early stoppage. At least give Koscheck a chance. If Thiago lands that first shot clean on the ground, end it.
The big problem is that the referee is pretty far away, as soon as the shot landed, he ran in to stop it. I think it was premature and he wasn’t giving Koscheck a chance. Bad call in my opinion.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 22, 2009 2:36 PM EST up reply actions
And also...
The safety issue is a concern, but the biggest safety difference between Boxing and MMA comes from the overall format. Boxing allows standing 10 counts, huge gloves, and it makes for multiple blows to the head over and over, over a period of time.
MMA, sure Koscheck was hurt, but I don’t think a couple more blows are going to suddenly hurt his career, let alone his safety on that night. We’ve seen time and time again of incompetent referees allowing some of these guys to get ridiculously slaughtered.
The referee ran in, he was right there. He should have allowed at least one more exchange on the ground to see if Koscheck was at least in the frame of mind to recover. He was making the moves to avoid a shot, that’s my opinion.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 22, 2009 2:39 PM EST up reply actions
Koscheck was unconscious. That ended the fight there. The fact that the floor knocked him out of that shouldn’t mean jack. If he had reacted at all to the left hook I might agree with you, but he was utterly unconscious.
A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
Well..
We agree to disagree then. I think once Thiago was coming in, Koscheck still moved to defend.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 22, 2009 5:08 PM EST up reply actions
“but Paulo didn’t follow up immediately,”
Um yeah, because he knew Kos was out cold and any further damage he did was def unneccessary.
He wasn’t out cold when Thiago moved in. An unconscious man doesn’t move his arm in the air to defend a strike or rise his legs to prepare for guard. He was definitely dazed beyond belief, but so was Nogueira when Herring kicked him, so was Grice and Veach at different moments in their war, so was Huerta against Guida at one point….
Sure, this may have been worse, but I think Koscheck deserved another second or two, that’s my only point here.
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by Leland Roling on Feb 22, 2009 11:17 PM EST up reply actions
Not bad
I enjoyed the fights. Good stoppages, much as everyone wanted to see Koscheck wear his jaw like a necklace.
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Awesome free card….. From Koz getting KO’d to Marquardt’s crazy tekken like combo, fully satisfied with the whole card.
I’m glad to see everyone talking about Nate’s sick combo at the end. The retards that I watched the fight with had no idea just how badass that finish actually was. I went apeshit watching the replays.
It really reminded me of Silva finishing Franklin in their second fight, sick combos involving punches and kicks.
A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
WG: Yes, I’d like the “number 5”, kitchen sink combo. Except at the end, rather than a pile-driver, can you sub that for a clinch and a knee in the fucking face?
NM: I’ll have your order at the window, please pull around.
Well Done
I was hoping to wright something funny about that combo…But I can’t beat that. I just wish I could have been in the head of Wilson Gouveia as this was happening to him.
Knee
Fist
Foot
Foot
Leg
Back Fist
Hay Maker
Fist
Knee….. Wilson Gouveia’s inner child screaming “Not the knee again”
How did the worse fight of the night get Fight of the Night?
Seriously, we were laughing in the bar at those two. Sanchez and his half Irish boxing stance, the high fives between exchanges and all the twisting and posing by Sanchez who thought he was competing against a peacock. That sparing match between friends soiled the late end of a very entertaining card.
How was MArquardt not given KO of the night and fight of the night?
Def best KO I have seen in years with his flurry of moves. And also, his fight with Wilson was SO much better than that crapfest of a fight betwen Stevenson and Sanchezzzzzzz
What a joke. Did Nate fuck danas wife or something?
Totally Agreed!!
Great fight with awesome combo from NM
Where were the takedowns??
Where was the ground game in the DS-JS fight???
I was sooo disappointed that I ended up watching a shitty kickboxing match.
Boys – look at GSP. That’s a mixed martial artist….
It seemed to me that Diego was pacing himself so that he wouldn’t gas – I mean it was his first fight at 155 – we’ve seen other fighters drop a weight class and their first fights are terrible (Vera? Swick?)
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