Sunday, October 21, 2007

UFC 77 Results

UFC 77: Hostile Territory is now history. It took place on Saturday night at the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio. The main event featured hometown boy Rich Franklin taking on middleweight champ Anderson Silva in a rematch. The other highly anticipated match was former heavyweight champ Tim Sylvia squaring off against undefeated Brandon Vera.

So who won? Well, let’s take a look.

UFC 77 RESULTS

Preliminary Card

(Lightweight) Matt Grice vs. Jason Black - The match was originally announced as a draw, but there was a scoring error. It was then revealed that Grice was the winner.

(Welterweight) Josh Burkman vs. Forrest Petz - Burkman won by split decision.

(Middleweight) Ryan Jensen vs. Demian Maia - Maia won by rear naked choke at 2:40 of the first round.

(Middleweight) Yushin Okami vs. Jason MacDonald - Okami won by unanimous decision.


Main Card

(Middleweight) Kalib Starnes vs. Alan Belcher - Belcher won after the referee halted the bout at 2:39 of round 2 due to a cut.

(Light Heavyweight) Eric Schafer vs. Stephan Bonnar - Bonnar won by TKO at 2:47 of the second round.

(Lightweight) Jorge Gurgel vs. Alvin Robinson - Robinson wins by unanimous decision.

(Heavyweight) Brandon Vera vs. Tim Sylvia - Sylvia won by unanimous decision.

(Middleweight Championship) Anderson Silva (-c-) vs. Rich Franklin - Silva wins by TKO (knees) at 1:07 of the second round.


Wanderlei Silva was sitting in the front row. Also, it was announced that former WWE champion Brock Lesnar will be coming to the UFC to fight. Looks like there’s plenty of great MMA action on the horizon. Be sure to head on over to Bodog and check out all the betting odds.


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