| UFC 37: High Impact | ||||
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 The poster for UFC 37: High Impact | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | May 10, 2002 | |||
| Venue | CenturyTel Center | |||
| City | Bossier City,Louisiana | |||
| Attendance | 7,200 | |||
| Buyrate | 50,000 | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC 37: High Impact was amixed martial arts event held by theUltimate Fighting Championship at theCenturyTel Center inBossier City,Louisiana on May 10, 2002. The event was seen live on pay per view in theUnited States, and was later released onhome video.
The card was headlined by a Middleweight Title Bout betweenMurilo Bustamante andMatt Lindland. It featured the first UFC appearances ofRobbie Lawler andIvan Salaverry.
The fight between Bustamante and Lindland has led to the contest being known as the infamous "double tap" fight. Bustamante had Lindland hooked cleanly in an armbar early in the fight, then released it after what seemed to be a tap, followed by a shout to stop the action by John McCarthy. Lindland claimed it wasn't a tap, which controversially led McCarthy to restart the fight. Many thought that this was a mistake by McCarthy to stop the fight considering it was probably the only way for Lindland to escape the armbar.
Bustamante was stripped of the title on October 5, 2002 after signing with PRIDE, thereby vacating the UFC Middleweight Championship belt.
| Main Card | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Middleweight | Murilo Bustamante (c) | def. | Matt Lindland | Submission (guillotine choke) | 3 | 1:33 | [a] |
| Heavyweight | Ricco Rodriguez | def. | Tsuyoshi Kosaka | TKO (punches) | 2 | 3:25 | |
| Lightweight | B.J. Penn | def. | Paul Creighton | TKO (punches) | 2 | 3:23 | |
| Middleweight | Phil Baroni | def. | Amar Suloev | TKO (punches) | 1 | 2:55 | |
| Lightweight | Caol Uno | def. | Yves Edwards | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–29, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Preliminary card | |||||||
| Middleweight | Ivan Salaverry | def. | Andrei Semenov | TKO (punches) | 3 | 2:27 | |
| Welterweight | Benji Radach | vs. | Steve Berger | NC (overturned by state commission) | 1 | 0:27 | [b] |
| Welterweight | Robbie Lawler | def. | Aaron Riley | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–27, 29–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
The following fighters were honored in the October 2011 book titledUFC Encyclopedia.[1]
