Date: April 18, 2009
Venue: Bell Centre
City: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Preliminary card
- Light Heavyweight bout: Vinicius Magalhães vs. Eliot Marshall
- Marshall defeated Magalhães via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 29–28).
- Welterweight bout: Ryo Chonan vs. TJ Grant
- Grant defeated Chonan via split decision (30–27, 29–28, 28–29).
- Lightweight bout: Mark Bocek vs. David Bielkheden
- Bocek defeated Bielkheden via submission (rear naked choke) at 4:57 of round 1.
- Middleweight bout: David Loiseau vs. Ed Herman
- Herman defeated Loiseau via unanimous decision (30–26, 30–27, 30–27).
- Middleweight bout: Jason MacDonald vs. Nate Quarry
- Quarry defeated MacDonald via TKO (elbows) at 2:27 of round 1.
- Middleweight bout: Denis Kang vs. Xavier Foupa-Pokam
- Kang defeated Foupa-Pokam via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).
Main card
- Light Heavyweight bout: Steve Cantwell vs. Luiz Arthur Cane
- Cane defeated Cantwell via unanimous decision (29–28, 30–27, 30–27).
- Heavyweight bout: Cheick Kongo vs. Antoni Hardonk
- Kongo defeated Hardonk via TKO (strikes) at 2:29 of round 2.
- Light Heavyweight bout: Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Brian Stann
- Soszynski defeated Stann via submission (kimura) at 3:53 of round 1.
- Light Heavyweight bout: Chuck Liddell vs. Mauricio Rua
- Rua defeated Liddell via TKO (punches) at 4:28 of round 1.
- Lightweight bout: Sam Stout vs. Matt Wiman
- Stout defeated Wiman via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28). This bout was originally scheduled for the preliminary card but was moved to the main card due to time constraints.
- Middleweight Championship bout: Anderson Silva (c) vs. Thales Leites
- Silva defeated Leites via unanimous decision (49–46, 48–47, 50–46) to retain the Middleweight Championship.
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