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UFC® Ultimate Fight Night 2 Live on Spike TV
October 3, 2005 The Joint Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, Nevada
Live From Las Vegas at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Evan Tanner vs. David Loiseau Leads Line-up for Ultimate Night of Action on Spike TV
Ultimate Fight Night™ 2 live from Las Vegas at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Monday, October 3. Spike TV will telecast the event live nationally starting at 9:00pm ET/PT.
The main event features Evan Tanner, former UFC middleweight champion, versus the high-flying former Canadian Champ, David “The Crow” Loiseau. The line-up also includes stars of the hit reality series The Ultimate Fighter™ 1 Chris Leben and Josh Koscheck.
In co-feature bouts, ultimate fighters Chris Leben and Josh “Kos” Koscheck will battle against Edwin Dewees and Drew Fickett.
Following is the full fight card for Ultimate Fight Night 2: MAIN EVENT – Middleweight non-title fight (170-185lbs)
Evan Tanner (33-5) vs.
David “The Crow” Loiseau (10-2) Middleweights Chris “The Crippler” Leben (13-1) vs. Edwin Dewees (31-7)
Welterweights Josh Koscheck (7-0) vs. Drew “The Master” Fickett (27-3)
Undercard Heavyweights Fabiano Scherner (5-1) vs. Brandon Vera (4-0)
Welterweights Thiago Alves (13-2) vs. Spencer Fisher (15-1)
Welterweights Jonathan Goulet (13-5-1) vs. Jay Hieron (7-1-0)
Middleweights Brock Larsen (12-0) vs. Jon Fitch (13-2-0-1 No contest)
* Card subject to change
Prior to the live fights, Spike TV will air a new episode of UFC Unleashed™ at 7:00pm ET/PT featuring previous bouts never before seen on basic cable including UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski vs. Vladimir Matyushenko and The Ultimate Fighter 1 light heavyweight champ Forrest Griffin vs. Bill Manhood. A hard-hitting edition of Ultimate Knockouts™ will then follow at 8:00pm. A new episode of The Ultimate Fighter™ 2 will directly follow the live event at 11:00pm ET/PT.
The Ultimate Fighter 2 airs on Spike TV Mondays at 11:00pm ET/PT featuring 18 of some of the best up-and- coming mixed martial arts fighters in the world. UFC Middleweight Champion, Rich Franklin, and UFC Welterweight Champion, Matt Hughes, are the coaches for Season II. UFC President Dana White serves as host.
Executive Producers of “Ultimate Fight Night II” are Frank Fertitta III, Lorenzo Fertitta and Dana White.
About The Ultimate Fighting Championship The Ultimate Fighting Championship® brand is the world’s leading professional mixed martial arts association and offers the premier series of MMA sports events. Owned and operated by Zuffa, LLC, and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nev., UFC® fight programs feature six live pay-per-view events annually through cable and satellite providers. In addition to its U.S. distribution, UFC fight programs are distributed throughout the world including broadcast on WOWOW, Inc. in Japan, Globosat in Brazil and Bravo in the United Kingdom. Zuffa, LLC licenses the distribution of its fight show DVDs through Studioworks Entertainment, a Ventura Distribution company. For more information, or current UFC fight news, visit
www.ufc.tv.
Gets, The Octagon and the eight-sided cage design are registered trademarks, trademarks, trade dress or service marks owned exclusively by Zuffa, LLC in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other marks referenced herein may be the property of Zuffa, LLC or other respective owners.
Spike TV, the first network for men, is available in 88 million homes and is a division of MTV Networks. MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B).
- News release from the UFC website with some editing from us (color, highlights, etc...)
(9/21/05)
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