| The Ultimate Fighting Championship is moving UFC 70 from the pay-per-view dial to basic cable. The event will air tape-delayed on Spike TV Saturday, April 21 at 9 p.m., Eastern and Pacific, from MEN Arena in Manchester, England.
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The fiercest fighters in Ultimate Fighting Championship are ready to rumble inside the Octagon! Don’t miss the hard-hitting MMA action of UFC 70: Nations Collide at MEN Arena in Manchester, England.
Plus, mark your calendars for UFC 71: Liddell vs. Jackson on May 26th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas – featuring the heavily-anticipated UFC light heavyweight championship match between “The Iceman” Chuck Liddell and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson!
The show was originally slated to be UFC’s coming out party on HBO, but, with the two sides in decidedly opposite corners when it comes to packaging the telecasts, moving 70 to Spike made the most sense. It avoids a live PPV on a Saturday afternoon.
UFC 70 M.E.N Arena’s top five UFC facts:
1: UFC, which returns to the UK for the first time in five years, is a mixed martial arts (MMA) organisation.
2: Fighters scheduled to appear include Russia’s Andre Arlovski, Croatia’s Mirko Cro Cop and Britian’s very
own Michael Bisping.
3: Bisping (a.k.a The Count), who fights out of Liverpool, won last season’s hugely successful reality TV
show The Ultimate Fighter 3.
4: Ahead of the event, UFC President Dana White, said: “Manchester is the home of sporting legends so what
better to launch Ultimate Fighting in the UK.”
5: UFC is now officially America’s fastest growing spectator sport.
UFC 70 Main Card
CroCop vs. Gabriel Gonzaga
Ryoto Machida vs. David Heath
Andrei Arlovski vs. Fabricio Werdum
Micheal Bisping vs. Elvis Sinosic
Cheick Kongo vs. Assuerio Silva
Under Card
Victor Valimaki vs. Alessio Sakara
Dennis Silver vs. Jess Liaudin
Terry Etim vs. Matt Grice
David Lee vs. Junior Assuncao
Edilberto Souza De Oliveira vs. Paul Taylor
UFC 70 Results
Main Event:
Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic vs. Gabriel Gonzaga
Winner: Gonzaga via knockout (head kick) in round one
Undercard:
205 lb. Michael Bisping vs. Elvis Sinosic
Winner: Bisping via technical knockout (strikes) in round two
Hvywt. Andrei Arlovski vs. Fabricio Werdum
Winner: Arlovski via unanimous decision
205 lb. Ryoto Machida vs. David Heath
Winner: Machida via unanimous decision
Hvywt. Cheick Kongo vs. Assuerio Silva
Winner: Kongo via majority decision
205 lb. Alessio Sakara vs. Victor Valimaki
Winner: Sakara via technical knockout (strikes) in round one
185 lb. Dennis Siver vs. Jess Liaudin
Winner: Liaudin via submission (armbar) in round one
155 lb. Terry Etim vs. Matt Grice
Winner: Etim via submission (guillotine choke) in round one
155 lb. David Lee vs. Junior Assuncao
Winner:Assuncao via submission (rear naked choke) in round two
170 lb. Paul Taylor vs. Ediberto Crocota
Winner:Taylor via technical knockout (strikes) in round three