Trending: UFC 161
Welcome to MMAFrenzy.com’s live coverage of UFC 97: Redemption, which takes place today, Saturday April 18th, at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. The pay-per-view event is headlined by UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva defending his title against Thales Leites and also features light heavyweights Chuck Liddell and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua squaring off in the co-main event.
The 12-bout event will get underway at 7:30pm ET with a 7-fight unaired preliminary card followed by 5 televised bouts, including Silva-Leites and Liddell-Rua.
Join MMAFrenzy.com beginning at 7:30pm ET for live results and main card play-by-play.
OFFICIAL RESULTS
- Anderson Silva (c) def. Thales Leites via unanimous decision (49-46, 48-47, 50-46)
UFC Middleweight Championship - Sam Stout def. Matt Wiman via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Mauricio “Shogun” Rua def. Chuck Liddell via TKO (strikes) — Round 1, 4:28
- Krzysztof Soszynski def. Brian Stann via submission (kimura) — Round 1, 3:53
- Cheick Kongo def. Antoni Hardonk via TKO (strikes) — Round 2, 2:29
- Luis Cane def. Steve Cantwell via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
- Denis Kang def. Xavier Foupa-Pokam via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
- Nate Quarry def. Jason MacDonald via TKO (strikes) — Round 1, 2:27
- Ed Herman def. David Loiseau via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-27, 30-27)
- Mark Bocek def. David Bielkheden via submission (rear naked choke) — Round 1, 4:57
- TJ Grant def. Ryo Chonan via split decision (30-27, 28-29, 29-28)
- Eliot Marshall def. Vinicius Magalhaes via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
PLAY-BY-PLAY
RECOMMENDED
30 COMMENTS
LEAVE A COMMENT!
Latest
GO VINNY !!!
aight guys, aint been on here in a while. too damn lazy to sign in. hahaha
so heres my picks:
Marshall via UD
Ryo Chonan via sub (rear naked choke) 2nd round
Matt Wiman Stout via split decision
Bocek via TKO (punches) 1st round
Herman via split decision
Quarry via KO 3rd round
Xavier via TKO 2nd round
Soszynski via TKO 2nd round
Cane via split decision (fight of the night)(rootin for cantwell though)
Kongo via TKO (knees and kicks) 1st round
Liddell via KO (big right) late 2nd
The Spider via TKO (KNEES AND LOTS OF EM)
Soszynski over Stann! Seriously!!!???
Looks like that was a pretty good pick.
I had the round wrong, but winner, method and minute correct.
Yeah KANG!
Nice to see Kang get a win, my picks arent doing too well but hey its all good, cool that Cantwell and Cane are up now, we shall see where Cantwell stands in the UFC LHW divison
My friend….check the standings for the league. :P
Chuck ):
I’m probably one of the biggest supporters of Liddell but damnit I don’t know what to say about what I just saw… It was not a good fight put on by Liddell and Shogun capatialized, should he hang em up ya perhaps, it shows that he can’t stand with the best anymore, perhaps he will say more in his post fight presser…. One of the Greatest forsure
unbelievable, chuck man what happened bro, i thought you had that shit… mannn cannot believe CHUCK LOST TO FUCKIN SHOGUN DAMNIT
Completely sucks man, but he got wobbled twice by a righthand from Shogun and got dropped by that left, I just hope that he realizes that he cant continue to get hit like that… He is part of the ZUFFA fam and He grew North American MMA (amongst others) but damn stop ruining your legandary career… But we shall see, I’m still a huge fan of Liddell’s but damn just damn
@fr702,
Do you think Chuck goes up to Hvwt?
Well that is a possiblity forsure, but seriously who would he fight.. The new breed of HW’s hit like tanks and have powerful takedowns…. He could to face Nog or Randy but who wants to see that? You can’t have him fight Cain or Shane or Brock, hell maybe Mir but he got rocked twice by Rua and then fell on that left soo his ability to take a punch is hightly suspect… but definately a possiblility
Poor Chucky, I fell a great sense of loss right now
So what does this win for rua rate from you guys ? I thinkhe had alot more than people gave him credit lately for . I think it ups his stock in a huge leap
He went from crappy to mediocre. Go team.
I agree its a longshot but chuck randy 4 (ugh) at hvwt might have mileage overseas for ticket sales.Maybe Gonzaga could be a fun test to fill an already established card.
I agree with you Doom its a solid win. Who faces Rua next? My guess Jardine or Vera.
Who does Chuck face next assuming he stays at LHW and assuming he doesn’t retire???
BTW…. LOOOOOOVE the play-by-play. Big kudos for MMAFrenzy!!!
I could see him facing someone like Jardine or Vera for sure Dietrich …… another fight with Forrest should soon follow . If he looks as good as he did today , he should take it this time around .
wow Leites has officially ticked off Anderson Silva
wat do the crowd’s chants of GSP mean?
i know george st pierre but beyond that..
that was more boring than the cote fight, what the hell was anderson thinking… what could be worse, chuck gets knocked out by fuckin shogun, then anderson doesnt even try to fight leites. if anderson wanted to, he couldve knocked leites out in the first round. he just wants leites to attack first so he could counter but leites is a submission dude he already sucks at the standup, so wtf…
i just lost all respect for anderson you have to be heartless to fight in the ufc, you fight as hard as you can and dont stop until the ref pulls you off of your opponent. you dont dance around your opponent for 25 minutes doing nothing but displaying “the art of mma”. dana even says if you arent fighting to finish your opponent then get out of the ufc, this should apply to anderson too.
anderson after already dominating everyone before it is like he doesnt care anymore as long as he keeps the title until he retires in like a year or less. first cote makes to the third round the only reason it got stoppped was because his knee other wise anderson silva would of won UD now he does win UD against thales leites.
yep chuc should retire what is it now he is gotten tko/knock outed 3 of his last 4. be cool if he went to HW heck he beat couture when in LHW. why not try it in HW him against gonzaga would be cool too. even of those fight i would want chuck to lose in both.
so now whos next for sila before he breaks the record for most title defences. bisping/hendo, marquart, maia. who ever wins of bisping and hendo will definetly get a title shot but it might be to long so marquart of maia i dont think they will fight for title shot so maia since he hasn’t gotten a title shot yet. i think hendo has the best shot of beating Anderson Silva if silva bearly tries to finish the fight now.
Chuck has gotten T/KOed in 3 of his last 5, lost a decision to Jardine in one and won a decision against Wanderlei in the other.
I forgot to say that I think Hendo would get finished by Silva just like he did last time, because Hendo’s fighting style plays into Silva’s. Leites was able to survive the fight because he wouldn’t engage Silva on the feet and kept trying (sort of) to take it to the ground, if that’s all Hendo did, he would last the fight, but lose a decision. If Hendo were to fight his normal style, I think the fight would go similarly to the last one.