The UFC headed to the Pacific North West Saturday August 29 for UFC 102, featuring UFC Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight champion Randy Couture, facing off against former PRIDE Heavyweight champion and former UFC Interim Heavyweight champion, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. As always if you don’t want to know the results, flip straight to the video.
Despite the promise of the lead bout, the match up didn’t even go close, with Nogueira winning every round decisively, with the Brazillian controlling the ground work and the standup. Points for the bout went 30-27, 30-27, 30-28.
Nogueira looks likely to face UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar in his next bout.
UFC 102: Results
- Lightweight bout: Marcus Aurelio vs. Evan Dunham
- Dunham defeated Aurelio via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 30-27).
- Middleweight bout: Nick Catone vs. Mark Muñoz
- Muñoz defeated Catone via split decision (28-29, 30-27, 29-28).
- Heavyweight bout: Tim Hague vs. Todd Duffee
- Duffee defeated Hague via KO (punches) at 0:07 of round 1. Duffee sets the new record for the UFC’s fastest knockout beating Don Frye and James Irvin who were tied at 8 seconds.
- Heavyweight bout: Justin McCully vs. Mike Russow
- Russow defeated McCully via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-26, 30-27).
- Heavyweight bout: Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Chris Tuchscherer
- Gonzaga defeated Tuchscherer via TKO (punches) at 2:27 of round 1.
- Middleweight bout: Ed Herman vs. Aaron Simpson
- Simpson defeated Herman via TKO (injury) at 0:17 of round 2.
Main card
- Light Heavyweight bout: Brandon Vera vs. Krzysztof Soszynski
- Vera defeated Soszynski via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).
- Middleweight bout: Chris Leben vs. Jake Rosholt
- Rosholt defeated Leben via submission (arm triangle choke) at 1:20 of round 3.
- Middleweight bout: Nate Marquardt vs. Demian Maia
- Marquardt defeated Maia via KO (punch) at 0:21 of round 1.
- Light Heavyweight bout: Keith Jardine vs. Thiago Silva
- Silva defeated Jardine via KO (punches) at 1:35 of round 1.
- Heavyweight bout: Randy Couture vs. Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira
- Nogueira defeated Couture via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28).
UFC 102 Video
UFC 102 Couture vs. Nogueira video
UFC 102 Jardine vs. Silva video
