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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