UFC 49

UFC 49: Unfinished Business was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on August 21, 2004, at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event was broadcast live on pay-per-view in the United States, and later released on DVD.

UFC 49: Unfinished Business
The poster for UFC 49: Unfinished Business
Promotion	Ultimate Fighting Championship
Date	August 21, 2004
Venue	MGM Grand Arena
City	Las Vegas, Nevada
Attendance	12,100 (paid 8,597)[1]
Total gate	$1,293,035[1]
Buyrate	80,000[1]
Total purse	$535,000[2]
Event chronology
UFC 48: Payback UFC 49: Unfinished Business UFC 50: The War of '04

History

It featured the anticipated rubber match between Light Heavyweight Champion Vitor Belfort and Randy Couture, following a disappointing doctor's stoppage in their last encounter at UFC 46.^[3]

This event featured the last UFC fight in the lightweight division until UFC 58 on March 4, 2006.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Light Heavyweight	Randy Couture	def.	Vitor Belfort (c)	TKO (doctor stoppage)	3	5:00	[a]
Middleweight	Joe Riggs	def.	Joe Doerksen	TKO (submission to elbows)	2	3:39
Light Heavyweight	Chuck Liddell	def.	Vernon White	KO (punch)	1	4:05
Middleweight	David Terrell	def.	Matt Lindland	KO (punches)	1	0:24
Heavyweight	Justin Eilers	def.	Mike Kyle	KO (punch)	1	1:14
Preliminary card
Welterweight	Chris Lytle	def.	Ronald Jhun	Submission (guillotine choke)	2	1:17
Welterweight	Karo Parisyan	def.	Nick Diaz	Decision (split) (29–28, 30–27, 28–29)	3	5:00
Lightweight	Yves Edwards	def.	Josh Thomson	KO (flying head kick and punches)	1	4:32

1. For the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship.

Encyclopedia awards

The following fighters were honored in the October 2011 book titled UFC Encyclopedia.^[4]

• Fight of the Night: Chuck Liddell vs. Vernon White
• Knockout of the Night: David Terrell
• Submission of the Night: Chris Lytle

See also

• Ultimate Fighting Championship
• List of UFC champions
• List of UFC events
• 2004 in UFC