Date: March 13, 1998
Venue: Pontchartrain Center
City: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Lightweight Tournament Alternate bout: Laverne Clark vs. Josh Stewart
- Clark wins by TKO (referee stoppage due to strikes) at 1:15.
- Lightweight Tournament Alternate bout: Chris Brennan vs. Courtney Turner
- Brennan wins by submission (armbar) at 1:20.
- Lightweight Tournament Semifinals: Mikey Burnett vs. Eugenio Tadeu
- Burnett wins by TKO (referee stoppage due to strikes) at 9:46.
- Lightweight Tournament Semifinals: Pat Miletich vs. Townsend Saunders
- Miletich wins by split decision at 15:00.
- Middleweight Superfight: Jerry Bohlander vs. Kevin Jackson
- Bohlander wins by technical submission (armbar) at 10:21. (Jackson refused to tap, Big John stopped the fight)
- Lightweight Tournament Finals: Pat Miletich vs. Chris Brennan
- Miletich wins the first UFC Lightweight Tournament by submission (choke) at 9:01. (Mikey Burnett withdrew from the tournament due to a broken finger and was replaced by Brennan.)
- Heavyweight Superfight: Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Kimo Leopoldo
- Kosaka wins by unanimous decision at 15:00.
- Middleweight Championship bout: Frank Shamrock (c) vs. Igor Zinoviev
- Shamrock wins by KO (slam) at 0:22 to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship.
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