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UFC 70: Nations Collide
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The poster for UFC 70: Nations Collide
Information
Promotion Ultimate Fighting Championship
Date21 April 2007
Venue Manchester Evening News Arena
City Manchester, United Kingdom
Attendance15,114 (12,708 paid) [1]
Total gate$2,628,472 (£1.3 million GBP) [2]
Event chronology
UFC 69: Shootout UFC 70: Nations Collide UFC 71: Liddell vs. Jackson 2

UFC 70: Nations Collide was the second UFC event held in the United Kingdom, and the first in Manchester on Saturday, 21 April 2007. UFC 70 was also only the seventh UFC event held outside the United States, and the first since UFC 38 . The card was broadcast live on pay-per-view in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Setanta Sports. [3]

Contents

The televised card on Spike TV drew a 1.84 overall rating (2.8 million viewers), and at its highest point, UFC 70 drew 3.5 million viewers for the main event. [4]

Background

2006 PRIDE Open-Weight Grand Prix Champion, Mirko Cro Cop fought Heavyweight contender Gabriel Gonzaga in the main event to determine the top contender for the UFC Heavyweight Championship held by Randy Couture. [5]

The card also featured Michael Bisping fighting in England for the UFC for the first time against UFC veteran Elvis Sinosic and Andrei Arlovski taking on prize fighter and training partner of Mirko Cro Cop and future UFC Heavyweight Champion Fabrício Werdum, who was making his UFC debut.

Reports have indicated that the UFC was targeting this event for its debut on HBO, but negotiations with HBO were not completed in time for UFC 70. As a result, the card instead aired on Spike TV in North America at 9 pm EDT on a 6-hour tape delay. [6]

Lyoto Machida was originally scheduled to fight Forrest Griffin at this event, but Griffin is out, due to the staph infection and could not compete on the card. [7]

Results

Main card
Weight classMethodRoundTimeNotes
Heavyweight Gabriel Gonzaga def. Mirko Cro Cop KO (head kick)14:51 [lower-alpha 1]
Heavyweight Andrei Arlovski def. Fabrício Werdum Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)35:00
Light Heavyweight Michael Bisping def. Elvis Sinosic TKO (punches)21:40
Light Heavyweight Lyoto Machida def. David Heath Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–26, 30–27)35:00
Heavyweight Cheick Kongo def. Assuério Silva Decision (majority) (29–28, 29–28, 28–28)35:00
Preliminary card
Lightweight Terry Etim def. Matt Grice Submission (guillotine choke)14:48
Lightweight Junior Assuncao def.David LeeSubmission (rear-naked choke)21:55
Light Heavyweight Alessio Sakara def.Victor ValimakiTKO (punches)11:44
Welterweight Jess Liaudin def. Dennis Siver Submission (armbar)11:19 [lower-alpha 2]
Welterweight Paul Taylor def.Edilberto de OliveiraTKO (head kick and punches)30:37
  1. ↑ UFC Heavyweight Championship title eliminator
  2. ↑ This preliminary bout was aired on the broadcast after the Gonzaga–Cro Cop fight.

Bonus awards

The bonuses for this event were $30,000 each.

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References

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