Date: June 4, 2005
Venue: Boardwalk Hall
City: Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

Preliminary card

  • Welterweight bout:  Nick Diaz vs.  Koji Oishi
Diaz wins by technical knockout (punches) at 1:24 of round one. The bout, although preliminary, was aired on the broadcast.
  • Middleweight bout:  David Loiseau vs.  Charles McCarthy
Loiseau wins by technical knockout (spinning back kick) at 2:04 of round two. The bout, although preliminary, was aired on the broadcast.
  • Middleweight bout:  Nathan Quarry vs.  Shonie Carter
Quarry wins by technical knockout (strikes) at 2:37 of round one. The bout, although preliminary, was aired on the broadcast.

Main card

  • Heavyweight bout:  Paul Buentello vs.  Kevin Jordan
Buentello wins by submission (guillotine choke) at 4:10 of round one.
  • Light Heavyweight bout:  Forrest Griffin vs.  Bill Mahood
Griffin wins by submission (rear naked choke) at 2:18 of round one.
  • Middleweight Championship bout:  Evan Tanner (c) vs.  Rich Franklin
Franklin wins by technical knockout (doctor stoppage) at 3:25 of round four. Halfway through the fourth round, the referee stopped the action to check the cuts on Tanner’s face; at this point, the ringside doctors were called in and ended to the bout. Franklin became the UFC middleweight champion. It was announced during the bout that the winner would become a coach for The Ultimate Fighter 2 and would face the other coach on the show Matt Hughes as a Middleweight at the end of the season.
  • Welterweight bout:  Karo Parisyan vs.  Matt Serra
Parisyan wins by unanimous decision.
  • Interim Heavyweight Championship bout:  Andrei Arlovski (ic) vs.  Justin Eilers
Arlovski wins by technical knockout (strikes) at 4:10 of round one. It was realized that Eilers had injured his knee in the bout, prompting the referee to stop the fight as Eilers could not defend himself.

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