UFC 100

UFC 100 was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on July 11, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Background

The event included two championship bouts (Heavyweight and Welterweight) and a fight between the two coaches of the most recent season of The Ultimate Fighter reality series on Spike TV. The main event featured a rematch between UFC Heavyweight Champion, Brock Lesnar, and UFC Interim-Heavyweight Champion, Frank Mir. This title unification bout occurred as a result of former UFC Heavyweight Champion, Randy Couture's year-long "resignation" from the company. During his absence, the UFC created an Interim-Heavyweight Championship that Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira had won by defeating Tim Sylvia. Nogueira and Mir were opposing coaches in The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs Team Mir and would fight for the interim championship at UFC 92.

During the airing of the television program, Couture returned to the company and UFC President Dana White announced that he would defend his title against Lesnar at UFC 91. This meant that the winner of the Couture-Lesnar and Nogueira-Mir matches would face off for the undisputed crown. In his fourth professional fight, Lesnar defeated Couture via technical knockout to become the UFC Heavyweight Champion. Mir was crowned the interim champion after becoming the first fighter to ever finish Nogueira. The match between Lesnar and Mir was set for UFC 98. However, Mir suffered a knee injury during training and was forced out of the bout.[6] It was announced a day later that the proposed fight would be moved to UFC 100 instead. Lesnar and Mir had fought once before, during Brock's UFC debut at UFC 81; which Mir won via a kneebar submission.

The co-main event featured Georges St-Pierre, defending his Welterweight Championship against Thiago Alves. Alves entered the fight with consecutive victories over three of the top UFC welterweights in Josh Koscheck, Matt Hughes and Karo Parisyan.Meanwhile, St-Pierre entered the bout with successful title defenses against top contender Jon Fitch and UFC Lightweight Champion BJ Penn.

The third match on the main card was between top middleweight contenders, Dan Henderson and Michael Bisping. The two served as opposing coaches on the ninth season of The Ultimate Fighter, The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom, with Henderson leading Team USA and Bisping heading Team UK. Bisping had compiled a professional MMA record of 18–1 and had been undefeated since moving to middleweight. He entered the bout with victories over Charles McCarthy, Jason Day and Chris Leben. On June 2, it was announced that the winner of the Henderson-Bisping Fight would get a shot at the UFC Middleweight Championship against Anderson Silva at a later date. A preliminary match-up between Dong Hyun Kim and Jonathan Goulet was originally scheduled to be on the card, but Goulet had to pull out of the bout with a shoulder injury. TJ Grant was named as his replacement.

K-1 HERO'S Light-Heavyweight Champion Yoshihiro Akiyama made his debut in the UFC against Alan Belcher.

This event was awarded Sherdog's 2009 Event of the Year.

Results

Preliminary card

Name:	Matt Grice
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	United States

Name:	Shannon Gugerty
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	United States

Lightweight bout: Gugerty defeated Grice via submission (guillotine choke) at 2:36 of round 1.

Name:	C.B. Dollaway
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	United States

Name:	Tom Lawlor
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	United States

Middleweight bout: Lawlor defeated Dollaway via Technical submission (guillotine choke) at 0:55 of round 1.

Name:	Dong Hyun
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	South Korea

Name:	TJ Grant
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	United States

Welterweight bout: Kim defeated Grant via unanimous decision (30–26, 30–26, 30–26).

Name:	Mac Danzig
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	United States

Name:	Jim Miller
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	United States

Lightweight bout: Miller defeated Danzig via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

Name:	Jon Jones
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	United States

Name:	Jake O'Brien
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	United States

Light Heavyweight bout: Jones defeated O'Brien via submission (guillotine choke) at 2:43 of round 2.

Name:	Mark Coleman
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	United States

Name:	JStephan Bonnar
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	United States

Light Heavyweight bout: Coleman defeated Bonnar via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28).

Main card

Name:	Yoshihiro Akiyama
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	Japan

Name:	Alan Belcher
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	United States

Middleweight bout: Akiyama defeated Belcher via split decision (30–27, 28–29, 29–28).

Name:	Dan Henderson
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	United States

Name:	Michael Bisping
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	England

Middleweight bout: Henderson defeated Bisping via KO (punch) at 3.20 of round 2.

Name:	Georges St-Pierre
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	Canada

Name:	Thiago Alves
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	Brazil

Welterweight Championship bout: St-Pierre defeated Alves via unanimous decision (50–45, 50–44, 50–45) to retain the UFC Welterweight championship.

Name:	Brock Lesnar (c)
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	United States

Name:	Frank Mir (ic)
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	United States

Heavyweight Championship unification bout: Lesnar defeated Mir via TKO at 1:48 of round 2[13] to retain the UFC Heavyweight championship and unify the Interim UFC Heavyweight championship. Brock Lesnar thereby became the Undisputed UFC Heavyweight Champion.

Name:	Jon Fitch
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	United States

Name:	Paulo Thiago
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	Brazil

Welterweight bout: Fitch defeated Thiago via unanimous decision (30–27, 29–28, 29–28). This fight was delayed until after the main event due to time constraints.

* Fight of the Night: Japan Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. United States Alan Belcher
* Knockout of the Night: United States Dan Henderson
* Submission of the Night: United States Tom Lawlor

UFC 100

Background

Results

Preliminary card

Main card

EVENTS