| UFC 48: Payback | ||||
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 The poster for UFC 48: Payback | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | June 19, 2004 | |||
| Venue | Mandalay Bay Events Center | |||
| City | Las Vegas, Nevada | |||
| Attendance | 10,000 (Paid: 6,528)[1] | |||
| Total gate | $901,655[1] | |||
| Buyrate | 110,000[1] | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC 48: Payback was amixed martial arts event held by theUltimate Fighting Championship on June 19, 2004, at theMandalay Bay Events Center inLas Vegas, Nevada. The event was broadcast live onpay-per-view in theUnited States, and was later released onDVD.
The featured contestants of the evening wereKen Shamrock andKimo Leopoldo, who had met once before in 1996 in a UFC title fight atUFC 8, with Shamrock reigning victorious. The event was very successful, as it drew more pay per view buys than the highly anticipated match betweenChuck Liddell andTito Ortiz one event earlier atUFC 47.
| Main Card | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Heavyweight | Ken Shamrock | def. | Kimo Leopoldo | KO (knee) | 1 | 1:26 | |
| Welterweight | Frank Trigg | def. | Dennis Hallman | TKO (punches) | 1 | 4:15 | |
| Heavyweight | Frank Mir | def. | Tim Sylvia | Technical Submission (armbar) | 1 | 0:50 | [a] |
| Welterweight | Matt Hughes | def. | Renato Verissimo | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 29–28, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Middleweight | Evan Tanner | def. | Phil Baroni | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Preliminary card | |||||||
| Lightweight | Matt Serra | def. | Ivan Menjivar | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Middleweight | Trevor Prangley | def. | Curtis Stout | Submission (neck crank) | 2 | 1:05 | |
| Welterweight | Georges St-Pierre | def. | Jay Hieron | TKO (punches) | 1 | 1:42 | [b] |
The total fighter payroll for UFC 48 was $586,000.[2]
The following fighters were honored in the October 2011 book titledUFC Encyclopedia.[3]
