UFC 51: Super Saturday - Ortiz Vs Belfort - Official Event Program (2005)

Vintage Ultimate fighting Championship Official event Program

UFC 51 Super Saturday

Tito Ortiz Vs Vitor Belfort

Featuring Legends and Pioneers such as Vitor Belfort, Tito Ortiz, Andrei Arlovski, Tim Sylvia, Nick Diaz, Evan Tanner & more

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UFC 51: Super Saturday was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on February 5, 2005 (Super Bowl weekend) at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada. The event was broadcast live on pay-per-view in the United States and Canada, and later released on DVD.

Loretta Hunt, news editor for Sherdog.com, reports, "I know for a fact the UFC was considering a female bout between Erica Montoya and the late Shelby Walker a few years ago." About this planned but never realized fight, "Big Dog" Benny Henderson Jr. asked Shelby Walker, "It has been rumored that you may fight Erika Montoya at UFC 51, is there any truth to those rumors?" Walker replied, "Yeah there is truth to those rumors, it has been talked about a lot and when I asked Dana White if he was going to put us on the show he said possibly, so that is where it stands right now. I haven't heard anything more from this but my biggest dream would be to fight in the UFC."

The event was also to be held in Japan, but UFC President Dana White moved it back to Las Vegas. Headlining the card were fan favorites Tito Ortiz and Vitor Belfort.

This was the last UFC event to feature a non-title matchup as the main event instead of an also-scheduled title fight on the same card until UFC 196.

Results:
Light Heavyweight     Tito Ortiz     def.     Vitor Belfort     Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28)
Middleweight     Pete Sell     def.     Phil Baroni     Submission (guillotine choke)     
Heavyweight     Andrei Arlovski     def.     Tim Sylvia     Submission (achilles lock)
Middleweight     Evan Tanner     def.     David Terrell     TKO (punches)
Heavyweight     Paul Buentello     def.     Justin Eilers     KO (punch)    
Preliminary card
Heavyweight     Mike Kyle     def.     James Irvin     KO (punch)
Middleweight     David Loiseau     def.     Gideon Ray     TKO (doctor stoppage)    
Welterweight     Karo Parisyan     def.     Chris Lytle     Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
Welterweight     Nick Diaz     def.     Drew Fickett     TKO (punches)

Hard to find piece of MMA history