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UFC 67: All or Nothing
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The poster for UFC 67: All or Nothing
Information
Promotion Ultimate Fighting Championship
DateFebruary 3, 2007
Venue Mandalay Bay Events Center
City Las Vegas, Nevada
Attendance10,227 (8,700 paid) [1]
Total gate$2,767,130 [2]
Buyrate350,000 [3]
Total purse$803,000 (disclosed) [4]
Event chronology
UFC Fight Night: Evans vs Salmon UFC 67: All or Nothing UFC 68: The Uprising

UFC 67: All or Nothing was a mixed martial arts event held by Ultimate Fighting Championship. The event was held Saturday, February 3, 2007, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. It was also the first UFC pay-per-view broadcast in High-Definition.

Contents

Background

This event was the first UFC pay-per-view event since UFC 60 to have no championship bouts on the card. In the main event, the middleweight winner of The Ultimate Fighter 4 , Travis Lutter was scheduled to challenge middleweight champion Anderson Silva for the middleweight title, however he was not able to make weight and the fight was changed to a non-title contest. [5]

The welterweight winner of The Ultimate Fighter 4 , Matt Serra, was also scheduled to challenge the welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre. However, St.-Pierre injured a knee during training and the bout was postponed. [6]

Two former PRIDE stars made their debuts in the UFC at this event. 2006 PRIDE Open-Weight Grand Prix Champion Mirko Cro Cop made his debut in the United States and in the UFC at UFC 67 against Eddie Sanchez. [7] [8]

Quinton Jackson — whose contract was acquired by the UFC after Zuffa's buyout of the World Fighting Alliance — made his debut against Marvin Eastman, whose contract with the WFA was also bought by Zuffa. Eastman has an early win over Jackson in the KOTC promotion. [9] It was also the UFC debut of future Light Heavyweight Champion, Lyoto Machida and also the debut of the future Lightweight Champion Frankie Edgar.

Results

Main Card
Weight classMethodRoundTimeNotes
Middleweight Anderson Silva (c)def. Travis Lutter Submission (triangle choke with elbows) [10] 22:11 [lower-alpha 1]
Heavyweight Mirko Cro Cop def. Eddie Sanchez TKO (punches)14:33
Light Heavyweight Quinton Jackson def. Marvin Eastman KO (punches)23:49
Lightweight Roger Huerta def.John HalversonTKO (punches)10:18
Middleweight Patrick Côté def. Scott Smith Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)35:00
Preliminary card
Middleweight Terry Martin def. Jorge Rivera KO (punches)10:14 [lower-alpha 2]
Lightweight Frankie Edgar def. Tyson Griffin Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 30–27)35:00 [lower-alpha 3]
Light Heavyweight Lyoto Machida def. Sam Hoger Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)35:00
Lightweight Dustin Hazelett def.Diego SaraivaDecision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)35:00
  1. The bout, originally scheduled to be a title defense for Silva, was changed to a non-title match when Travis Lutter failed to weigh in at the contracted weight for the title fight. [11]
  2. This bout was aired on the pay-per-view broadcast.
  3. This bout was aired on the pay-per-view broadcast.

Bonus awards

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