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UFC 78 is live tonight from Newark, New Jersey and the brand new Prudential Center. The PPV begins at 7pm pacific/10pm eastern with the live show beginning a few hours before.

The complete card is...

-Michael Bisping (15-0) vs. Rashad Evans (15-0-1)
-Thiago Silva (11-0) vs. Houston Alexander (8-1-0)
-Joe Doerksen (39-10) vs. Ed Herman (15-4)
-Ryo Chonan (14-7) vs. Karo Parisyan (25-4)
-Frank Edgar (7-0) vs. Spencer Fisher (21-3)

****pre-lim fights below may not air on PPV****

-Chris Lytle (34-14-4) vs. Thiago Alves (18-4)
-Jason Reinhardt (18-0) vs. Joe Lauzon (14-3)
-Luke Caudillo (15-8.) vs. Marcus Aurelio (14-5)
-Akihiro Gono (27-12-7) vs. Tamdan McCrory (10-0)


I will post UFC 78 Results tonight in this thread. Also use this thread for discussing the show tonight.

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Akihiro Gono def. Tamdan McCrory via submission (armbar) in the 2nd round.

Marcus Aurelio def. Luke Caudillo by TKO (strikes) early in the 1st round.

Jason Reinhardt vs. Joe Lauzon is up next.

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Joe Lauzon def. Jason Reinhardt via submission (rear naked choke) in the 1st round.

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Thiago Alves def. Chris Lytle via doctor stoppage (blood) after the second round.

Reported to be confusion after this one. Supposedly, Alves' eye looked horrible but the doctor stopped it because of blood getting into one of Lytle's eyes. It looked like Lytle had very little blood. Crowd did not like this one bit.

The LIVE PPV begins in about 10 minutes.

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Frankie Edgar def. Spencer Fisher via unanimous judges decision, 30-27, 30-27 & 30-26.

Ed Herman def. Joe Doerksen via knockout (punch) early in the 3rd round.

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Karo Parisyan def. Ryo Chonan via unanimous judges decision, 30-27. The crowd did not like this fight at all. Parisyan got boo'd.


In an upset...that's really isn't one.

Thiago Silva def. Houston Alexander via TKO (strikes) at 3:25 in the 1st round.

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The main event is up next between Rashad Evans (favorite) and Michael Bisping.

So far the crowd is said to be deflated due to Alexander's loss.

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Bisping was boo'd heavily. First round didn't see a lot of damage done. Evans secured a few takedowns and had the mount and ground and pound at one time.

Sounds like Evans had the first round.

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2nd round saw Evans land a big slam on Bisping. But the majority of the round was the two trading stand-up. Sounds like it could go either way.

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The fight goes to a decision...result coming shortly.

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Result is in!

Rashad Evans def. Michael Bisping via split judges decision. The scores were 29-28 for Evans, 29-28 for Evans and 29-28 for Bisping.

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I knew Rashad would win, but I stunned Houston went down.