| UFC 51: Super Saturday | ||||
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 The poster for UFC 51: Super Saturday | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | February 5, 2005 | |||
| Venue | Mandalay Bay Events Center | |||
| City | Paradise, Nevada | |||
| Attendance | 11,072 (Paid: 9,268)[1] | |||
| Total gate | $1,493,000 | |||
| Buyrate | 105,000 | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC 51: Super Saturday was amixed martial arts event held by theUltimate Fighting Championship on February 5, 2005 (Super Bowl weekend) at theMandalay Bay Events Center in theLas Vegas suburb ofParadise, Nevada. The event was broadcast live onpay-per-view in theUnited States andCanada, and later released onDVD.
Loretta Hunt, news editor for Sherdog.com, reports, "I know for a fact the UFC was considering a female bout betweenErica Montoya and the lateShelby Walker a few years ago."[2] About this planned but never realized fight, "Big Dog" Benny Henderson Jr. asked Shelby Walker, "It has been rumored that you may fight Erika Montoya at UFC 51, is there any truth to those rumors?" Walker replied, "Yeah there is truth to those rumors, it has been talked about a lot and when I askedDana White if he was going to put us on the show he said possibly, so that is whereit stands right now. I haven't heard anything more from this but my biggest dream would be to fight in the UFC."[3]
The event was also to be held inJapan, but UFC President Dana White moved it back to Las Vegas. Headlining the card were fan favoritesTito Ortiz andVitor Belfort.
This was the last UFC event to feature a non-title matchup as the main event instead of an also-scheduled title fight on the same card untilUFC 196.
| Main Card | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Light Heavyweight | Tito Ortiz | def. | Vitor Belfort | Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Middleweight | Pete Sell | def. | Phil Baroni | Submission (guillotine choke) | 3 | 4:19 | |
| Heavyweight | Andrei Arlovski | def. | Tim Sylvia | Submission (achilles lock) | 1 | 0:47 | [a] |
| Middleweight | Evan Tanner | def. | David Terrell | TKO (punches) | 1 | 4:35 | [b] |
| Heavyweight | Paul Buentello | def. | Justin Eilers | KO (punch) | 1 | 3:34 | |
| Preliminary card | |||||||
| Heavyweight | Mike Kyle | def. | James Irvin | KO (punch) | 1 | 1:55 | [c] |
| Middleweight | David Loiseau | def. | Gideon Ray | TKO (doctor stoppage) | 1 | 5:00 | |
| Welterweight | Karo Parisyan | def. | Chris Lytle | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Welterweight | Nick Diaz | def. | Drew Fickett | TKO (punches) | 1 | 4:40 | |
