Fedor Emelianenko of Stary Oskol, Russia, defeated Andrei Arlovski of Chicago, IL by KO at 3:14 in the initial round. Emelianenko improves his record to 29-1 (7 KO's) while Arlovski became 14-6.

After the fight Emelianenko said "I feel great. I feel really good about it. I want to thank God for my victory and thank everyone that was behind me. I knew that Arlovski was prone to making mistakes and at that moment I caught him."

"I really didn't think I would knock him out but it happened. You don't expect it to happen but it did."

Josh Barnett of Seattle, WA defeated Gilbert Yvel of Amsterdam, HOL by submission at 3:14 in the third round with Yvel tapping out. Barnett improves his record to 26-5 while Yvel became 35-13-1.

After the fight Barnett spoke about his hard-fought victory saying, "He came so hard. There was a point in the first round when blood started coming from my mouth and my nose. It affected me. My game plan was to finish him right away. I thought they might stop it in the first round. Now I have to get my nose fixed."

Vitor Belfort of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil defeated Matt Lindland of Eagle Creek, OR by TKO at :37 of the initial round. Belfort improves his record to 18-8 (12 KO's) while Lindland became 21-6.

Babalu Sobral of Costa Mesa, CA, defeated Thierry Sokoudjou of San Diego, CA, by submission at 2:36 in the second round. Sobral has now improved his record to 32-7 (3 KO's) while Sokoudjou became 5-4.

Paul Buentello of San Antonio, TX, defeated Kiril Sidellnikov of Stary Oscal, Russia by TKO at 4:18 in the third round. Buentello has now improved his record to 27-10 (17 KO's) while Sidellnikov became 5-3.

Dan Lauzon of Boston, MA, defeated Bobby Green of California's Inland Empire by submission at 4:38 in the initial round. Lauzon has now improved his record to 12-2 while Green became 7-2.