UFC 48

UFC 48: Payback
Information
Promotion	Ultimate Fighting Championship
Date	June 19, 2004
Venue	Mandalay Bay Arena
City	Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Attendance	10,000 (Paid 6,528) [2]
Total gate	$901,655
Buyrate	110,000
Event chronology
UFC 47: It's On! UFC 48: Payback UFC 49: Unfinished Business

UFC 48: Payback was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on June 19, 2004, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Paradise, Nevada. The event was broadcast live on pay-per-view in the United States, and was later released on DVD.

The featured contestants of the evening were Ken Shamrock and Kimo Leopoldo, who had met once before in 1996 in a UFC title fight at UFC 8, with Shamrock reigning victorious. The event was very successful, as it drew more pay per view buys than the highly anticipated match between Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz one event earlier at UFC 47.

The total fighter payroll for UFC 48 was $586,000.

UFC Heavyweight Champion Tim "The Maine-iac" Sylvia and challenger Frank Mir Weigh-in.

Results

Preliminary card

• Welterweight bout: Georges St-Pierre vs. Jay Hieron

St-Pierre wins by TKO (punches) at 1:42 of round one. Hieron was a late replacement for Jason "Mayhem" Miller, who had withdrawn from the card due to ongoing legal problems. [3]

• Middleweight bout: Trevor Prangley vs. Curtis Stout

Prangley wins by submission (neck crank) at 1:05 of round two.

• Lightweight bout: Matt Serra vs. Ivan Menjivar

Serra defeated Menjivar via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

Main card

• Middleweight bout: Evan Tanner vs. Phil Baroni

Tanner defeated Baroni via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 29–28).

• Welterweight bout: Matt Hughes vs. Renato Verissimo

Hughes defeated Verissimo via unanimous decision (29–28, 30–27, 30–27).

• Heavyweight Championship bout: Frank Mir vs. Tim Sylvia

Mir wins by Technical Submission (armbar) at 0:50 of round one.[4] Referee Herb Dean called a stop to the bout when he noticed a break in Sylvia's arm which appeared to Sylvia and the audience as an early stoppage; it was later revealed that Sylvia had indeed suffered multiple fractures to his right forearm. [5] Mir claims the vacant UFC Heavyweight Championship.

• Welterweight bout: Frank Trigg vs. Dennis Hallman

Trigg wins by TKO (punches) at 4:13 of round one.

• Heavyweight bout: Ken Shamrock vs. Kimo Leopoldo

Shamrock wins by TKO (knee strike) at 1:23 of round one.

Fighter Payouts

Ken Shamrock: $170,000 ($120,000 to fight; $50,000 to win)

Matt Hughes: $110,000 ($55,000 to fight; $55,000 to win)

Frank Mir: $90,000 ($60,000 to fight; $30,000 to win)

Kimo Leopoldo: $55,000

Tim Sylvia: $40,000

Evan Tanner: $30,000 ($15,000 to fight; $15,000 to win)

Phil Baroni: $20,000

Frank Trigg: $20,000 ($10,000 to fight; $10,000 to win)

Matt Serra: $16,000 ($8,000 to fight; $8,000 to win)

Renato Verissimo: $10,000

Georges St-Pierre: $8,000 ($4,000 to fight; $4,000 to win)

Trevor Prangley: $5,000 ($2,500 to fight; $2,500 to win)

Dennis Hallman: $4,000

Curtis Stout: $3,000

Jay Hieron: $3,000

Ivan Menjivar: $2,000

Total Fighter Payroll: $586,000

Sources

• UFC 48: Payback Results on Sherdog.com
• "Ultimate Fighting Championship Cards" on Wrestling Information Archives
• UFC 48 Fighter Salaries
• NSAC results for UFC 48