UFC 58: USA vs. Canada
Information
Promotion
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Date
March 4, 2006
Venue
City
Attendance
9,569 (8,183 paid)[1]
Total gate
$1,758,450
Buyrate
300,000[2]
Event chronology
UFC 58: USA vs. Canada
UFC 58: USA vs. Canada was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on March 4, 2006. It was held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas StripinNevada, and broadcast live on pay-per-view in the United States.
In keeping with the theme of the card, most of the fights featured an American fighter against a Canadian fighter.
Five of the seven Canadian fighters featured, Icho Larenas, Sam Stout, Mark Hominick, Georges St-Pierre, and David Loiseau, were at the time champions in the Canadian TKO Major League MMA promotion.
The show drew a live gate of $1,758,450.[3] The disclosed fighter payroll for UFC 58 was $207,000.[4]
The final scorecard for United States vs. Canada was United States 5, Canada 3.
This event also featured the return of the lightweight division to the UFC, which had been suspended since UFC 49
Main Card
Weight class
Method
Round
Time
Notes
Middleweight
Rich Franklin (c)
def.
Decision (unanimous) (50–43, 50–42, 50–42)
5
5:00
Middleweight
def.
Steve Vigneault
Submission (guillotine choke)
1
2:09
Welterweight
def.
Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28)
3
5:00
Middleweight
def.
Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
3
5:00
Lightweight
def.
Submission (triangle armbar)
2
1:52
Preliminary Card
Lightweight
def.
Decision (split) (29–28, 29–28, 28–29)
3
5:00
Light Heavyweight
def.
Submission (kimura)
1
1:54
Heavyweight
Tom Murphy
def.
Icho Larenas
TKO (punches)
3
1:59
Georges St. Pierre: $48,000
Rich Franklin: $32,000
Nathan Marquardt: $30,000
BJ Penn: $25,000
Tom Murphy: $10,000
Mike Swick: $10,000
David Loiseau: $9,000
Spencer Fisher: $8,000
Yves Edwards: $8,000
Rob Macdonald: $5,000
Joe Doerksen: $5,000
Jason Lambert: $4,000
Mark Hominick: $4,000
Sam Stout: $4,000
Icho Larenas: $3,000
Steve Vigneault: $2,000
Disclosed Fighter Payroll: $207,000
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