Date: August 7, 2010
Venue: Oracle Arena
City: Oakland, California, USA
Preliminary card
- Welterweight bout: Ben Saunders vs. Dennis Hallman
- Hallman defeated Saunders via unanimous decision (29–28, 30–27, 29–28).
- Heavyweight bout: Stefan Struve vs. Christian Morecraft
- Struve defeated Morecraft via KO (punches) at 0:21 of round 2. This bout aired on the PPV broadcast following the Guida vs. dos Anjos fight.
- Light Heavyweight bout: Tim Boetsch vs. Todd Brown
- Boetsch defeated Brown by unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28).
- Welterweight bout: Johny Hendricks vs. Charlie Brenneman
- Hendricks defeated Brenneman via TKO (punches) at 0:40 of round 2.
- Light Heavyweight bout: Phil Davis vs. Rodney Wallace
- Davis defeated Wallace via unanimous decision (30–26, 30–27, 30–27).
- Welterweight bout: Dustin Hazelett vs. Rick Story
- Story defeated Hazelett via TKO (punches) at 1:15 of round 2.
Main card
- Heavyweight bout: Junior dos Santos vs. Roy Nelson
- dos Santos defeated Nelson via unanimous decision (30–26, 30–27, 30–27).
- Welterweight bout: Matt Hughes vs. Ricardo Almeida
- Hughes defeated Almeida via technical submission (Anaconda choke)[15][16] at 3:15 of round 1.
- Lightweight bout: Clay Guida vs. Rafael dos Anjos
- Guida defeated dos Anjos via submission (jaw injury) at 1:51 of round 3.
- Catchweight (171.5 lbs) bout: Jon Fitch vs. Thiago Alves
- Fitch defeated Alves via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).
- Middleweight Championship bout: Anderson Silva (c) vs. Chael Sonnen
- Silva defeated Sonnen via submission (triangle armbar) at 3:10 of round 5 to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship. This is one of only three fights in UFC history to end in the 5th round. The others were Randy Couture vs. Ricco Rodriguez at UFC 39 and BJ Penn vs. Diego Sanchez at UFC 107.
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