UFC Fight Night: Muñoz vs. Mousasi | ||||
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The poster for UFC Fight Night: Muñoz vs. Mousasi. | ||||
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Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
Date | May 31, 2014 | |||
Venue | O2 World | |||
City | Berlin, Germany | |||
Attendance | 8,000 [1] | |||
Event chronology | ||||
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UFC Fight Night: Muñoz vs. Mousasi (also known as UFC Fight Night 41) was a mixed martial arts event held on May 31, 2014, at O2 World in Berlin, Germany. [2]
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport that allows striking and grappling, both standing and on the ground, using techniques from various combat sports and martial arts. The first documented use of the term mixed martial arts was in a review of UFC 1 by television critic Howard Rosenberg in 1993. The term gained popularity when newfullcontact.com, then one of the largest websites covering the sport, hosted and republished the article. The question of who actually coined the term is subject to debate.
The event was the first that the organization had hosted in Berlin, and third in Germany following UFC 99 and UFC 122 in 2009 and 2010.
UFC 99: The Comeback was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on June 13, 2009 in Cologne, Germany.
UFC 122: Marquardt vs. Okami was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on November 13, 2010 at König Pilsener Arena in Oberhausen, Germany. This event aired on the same day, via tape delay, on Spike TV in the U.S.
The event was the first of two that took place on May 31, 2014, with The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 Finale: Miocic vs. Maldonado being the other making it only the second time in UFC history that they have hosted two events in one day.
The card was headlined by a middleweight bout between Gegard Mousasi and Mark Muñoz. [3]
Gegard Mousasi, is a Dutch mixed martial artist and former kickboxer currently competing in Bellator MMA where he is the reigning Bellator Middleweight World Champion. He is also the former DREAM Light Heavyweight Champion, former DREAM Middleweight Champion, former Cage Warriors World Middleweight Champion and the former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion, thus making Mousasi a five-time World Champion. At the moment of his departure from the UFC in July 2017, he was #4 in the official UFC middleweight rankings, and he is currently ranked the #4 Middleweight MMA fighter in the world by Fight Matrix.
Mark Kenery Muñoz is a retired Japanese-born Filipino-American professional mixed martial artist who most recently competed in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional competitor from 2007 until 2015, Munoz also formerly competed for the WEC. Throughout his career, Munoz was credited as one of "the nicest guys in MMA" even being officially ranked as No.1 during an Episode of "UFC Tonight" due to his contributions to both the sport of MMA, and his local community through activities such as starting up and running his own gym, and heading his own "anti-bullying" campaign.
Thiago Tavares was expected to face Tom Niinimäki at the event. However, Tavares pulled out of the bout citing an injured thigh and was replaced by promotional newcomer Niklas Bäckström. [4] [5]
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The octagon's canvas was exceptionally lacking sponsor logos, due to the Berlin event's canvas having been unintentionally shipped to São Paulo's event. [6]
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
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Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
Middleweight | Gegard Mousasi | def. | Mark Muñoz | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 3:57 | |
Middleweight | C.B. Dollaway | def. | Francis Carmont | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
Middleweight | Sean Strickland | def. | Luke Barnatt | Decision (split) (28–29, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
Featherweight | Niklas Bäckström | def. | Tom Niinimäki | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 4:15 | |
Preliminary card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
Lightweight | Nick Hein | def. | Drew Dober | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
Middleweight | Magnus Cedenblad | def. | Krzysztof Jotko | Submission (guillotine choke) | 2 | 4:59 | |
Bantamweight | Iuri Alcântara | def. | Vaughan Lee | TKO (punches) | 1 | 0:25 | |
Welterweight | Peter Sobotta | def. | Pawel Pawlak | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
Featherweight | Maximo Blanco | def. | Andy Ogle | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
Heavyweight | Ruslan Magomedov | def. | Viktor Pešta | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 |
The following fighters were awarded $50,000 bonuses: [8]
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