| UFC 47: It’s On! | ||||
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 The poster for UFC 47: It’s On! | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | April 2, 2004 | |||
| Venue | Mandalay Bay Events Center | |||
| City | Paradise, Nevada | |||
| Attendance | 11,437[1] | |||
| Total gate | $1,444,020[1] | |||
| Buyrate | 105,000[1] | |||
| Total purse | 333,000[2] | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC 47: It’s On! was amixed martial arts event held by theUltimate Fighting Championship on April 2, 2004, at theMandalay Bay Events Center in theLas Vegas suburb ofParadise, Nevada. The event was broadcast live onpay-per-view, and later released onDVD.
Headlining the card was the match betweenChuck Liddell andTito Ortiz.
The title "It's On!" refers to Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz's long-running negotiations leading up to the fight. Fans had been awaiting the fight for more than a year, and while both fighters had their own stories as to why it took so long, the fight finally took place in 2004. Ortiz claims that as friends and former training partners, he and Liddell had made a pact never to fight. Liddell claims there was no such pact, that he would fight anyone anytime, and accused Ortiz of ducking the fight.
A match-up betweenTim Sylvia andAndrei Arlovski for the then-vacantUFC Heavyweight Championship was scheduled for the event, but Sylvia was pulled due to a recurrence of positive drug samples just a day before the event. Arlovski was re-booked on short notice in a non-title fight againstWesley Correira, who was pulled from a scheduled main card fight withMike Kyle to replace Sylvia.Wes Sims stepped in on a day's notice to face Mike Kyle at this event as well.[3] The Sylvia–Arlovski match-up was finally re-booked for the InterimHeavyweight Championship atUFC 51 in February 2005.
This was the first card to feature "On The Mat" with Marc Laimon, a brief instructional video demonstrating thetriangle choke.
| Main Card | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Light Heavyweight | Chuck Liddell | def. | Tito Ortiz | KO (punches) | 2 | 0:38 | |
| Welterweight | Chris Lytle | def. | Tiki Ghosn | Submission (bulldog choke) | 2 | 1:55 | |
| Lightweight | Yves Edwards | def. | Hermes França | Decision (split) (29–28, 29–28, 28–29) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Heavyweight | Andrei Arlovski | def. | Wesley Correira | TKO (punches) | 2 | 1:15 | |
| Welterweight | Nick Diaz | def. | Robbie Lawler | KO (punch) | 2 | 1:31 | |
| Heavyweight | Mike Kyle | def. | Wes Sims | KO (punch) | 1 | 4:59 | |
| Preliminary card | |||||||
| Heavyweight | Jonathan Wiezorek | def. | Wade Shipp | TKO (punches) | 1 | 4:40 | |
| Lightweight | Genki Sudo | def. | Mike Brown | Submission (triangle armbar) | 1 | 3:31 | |
The total fighter payroll for UFC 47 was $333,000.[2]
The following fighters were honored in the October 2011 book titledUFC Encyclopedia.[4]
