Event: UFC 103
Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009, at 10 p.m. ET on pay-per-view (PPV)
Location: American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas
Main event:
195 lbs.: Rich “Ace” Franklin (25-4) vs. Vitor “The Phenom” Belfort (18-8)
Main card (Televised on PPV):
265 lbs.: Junior “Cigano” Dos Santos (8-1) vs. Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (25-6-2)
170 lbs.: Martin “Hitman” Kampmann (15-2) vs. Paul “Semtex” Daley (21-8-2)*
170 lbs.: Josh “Kos” Koscheck (12-4) vs. Frank “Twinkle Toes” Trigg (19-6)
155 lbs.: Hermes Franca (19-7) vs. Tyson Griffin (13-2)
Under card (Partially televised on Spike TV):
155 lbs.: Efrain “Hecho en Mexico” Escudero (11-0) vs. Cole “Magrino” Miller (15-3)
155 lbs.: Jim Miller (14-2) vs. Steve Lopez (12-1)
155 lbs.: Rafaello “Tractor” Oliveira (8-1) vs. Nick “The Carnie” Lentz (16-3-1)
170 lbs.: Brian Foster (10-3) vs. Rick Story (7-3)
185 lbs.: Tomasz “The Gorilla” Drwal (16-2-1) vs. Drew “The Massacre” McFedries (8-5)
205 lbs.: Eliot “The Fire” Marshall (7-1) vs. Jason Brilz (17-1-1)
205 lbs.: Vladimir “The Janitor” Matyushenko (22-4) vs. Igor Pokrajac (21-5)
155 lbs.: Rafael dos Anjos (11-4) vs. Rob “The Saint” Emerson (9-7)
All fights officially confirmed by UFC.com
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This card seem to SUCK HARD!
I really wish the UFC would show all the fights!! I think if we pay $45.00 we should be able to see the under card fights as well. It really pisses me off!!!
They show quite a bit for your money Boxing is 49.99 and you only get 3 fights.
is tito on this card?
LOL – wow you really need to get a clue!
I totally agree,some of the best fights we miss.If I pay all that money I should have every right to watch them as well.I would love to sit there for 5 or 6 hours.
Belfort-Franklin at 205!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Belfort via Tko
Dos Santos via Tko
Kampmann via Submission
Koscheck via superior wrestling.(although i’ll be rooting for trigg)
Miller via Submission
Sherk via Decision
Griffin via Decision
Mcfedries via Brutal KO
Wiman
Herman via whatever he wants
Fire Marshall via Submission.
You’re the only person I’ve ever heard say (or type) “i’ll be rooting for trigg”. lol
Ace by UD, maybe a TKO
Dos Santos by TKO
Kampmann by UD
Kos by TKO
Miller/Efrain is VERY interesting to me. Really excited. No prediction
I’ll go with an upset and say Tibau over Sherk
Griffin by decision
Drwal by TKO
Wiman by UD
Herman by Sub
Brilz by UD
LOL, yeah i know. Its cause i’ve never really liked Kos. The only fight that i rooted for him in was the Sanchez-Koscheck fight cause Diego tried to puch Kos off the stage at the weigh-ins.
Im kinda worried in the Franklin-Belfort fight. Rich is a more complete fight than Vitor, but i pray that Vitor wins.
franklin will have no answer for Vitor’s speed
I hope your right. Dont think you are though.
Dan Henderson should be entitled to his rematch with Silva because I feel this time is going to be different.It is going to be round 1 of the last one as well as a great 4 rounds after that as long as silva can take all the punishment
He is getting his remath
rematch***
Its 59.99 in Canada. I wish for more fights too.
but thats in canadian dollars, where everything is more expensive
It must be nice to only have to pay 45$ up North here we pay 60$
yo come on really u cant b serious
this is a badass fight card.
don’t hate cause you won’t be there
KosCHECK!!!!!!!!!!
This year has been alot of`fair weather fan base for the UFC and that pisses me off!!! Your either a true fight fan or just tryin to fit in with the Anderson The Spider trend look Just Cause their is no Poster Boy Dont mean we wont see good fights !!!!
I AGREE
well they could make this free on spike or somthing so you cant judge it yet but i wonder what they are going to have for a main event
we really need more ufc events in TEXAS!!!! how about san antonio next?? we do it big in TX so bring us a
big stacked show
Kampmann will win eazzzy Swick should have lost to Burkman.
Most wrong thing i have ever read on this site….should have lost???yeah maybe if swick didn’t dominate the sh*t out of him?
Cro-cop – doing what he does
Swick – by tko second or 3rd round
Kos – KO the hell out of trigg
Escudero – UD
Sherk – via UD
Franca – Sub
Ya know it looks bad now, but if they get say cain vs carwin and another good main event this card will be good, This under card has some good guys
my boy kos will win!
gotta go for swick!
go hermes!
fuck everyone else! they suck! id beat them up in the cage!
they should either get cote vs wandy or deigo vs edger or manaryd on this card that would 2 fights id liek to see
Okay i want Trigg to win but pry wont. Ill take Griffin. Hopre Kampman wins will be tough though. Miller via Sub.
ur card is gonna suck, ur main event wil suck
agreed, this is a dreadful fight card
your clueless – thats clear.
bryant and david, quit smokin’ that $#!+
Hmmm… ill have to disagree with some of you this card is shaping up nice so far IMO.. But yea gotta wonder what the main event for this card gna be!!
With you JR I am SO curious to see who will take the main event. Looks like all the Title fights are all taken up. If liddell doesnt retire, Id say Liddell-Franklin of winner of Coleman/Bonner. Idk cant wait to find out how it goes though!!!!
please
this card sucks
there are tons of light heavyweight matchups that could be put together
I just glanced back up at the 4 names for the advertisment, LOL X 1000
good lord
Your a retard.
I feel its safe to say that the main event will suck as well. All of the top fighters will be used up from UFC 100 next week until September. Wanderlei was used last month, Rampage is committed to Rashad, Forest is committed, who can you use?????
Liddel, Franklin and Wanderlei come to mind. A three month+ break between fights is enough time off for Rich and Wand.
dude give the card at least a main event before you judge it the under card looks very good i think but to the typical fan probably not as good but a bunch of very good key match ups for there weight class
Exactly – this is a good card with great matchups even the undercard is good – ppl just have no idea what theyre talkin about. Cant we just create an iq test to get a user name on this site it get so annoyed by all the casual fans that are just CLUELESS!
give the card a main event before you judge it i think it has a bunch of key match ups that i wanna see paper view or not ill be watching it
Finally someone who has a clue! lol
I’d like to see Luiz Cane vs. someone on this card. Not sure where he’s been lately. My first impulse was Luiz Cane vs. Jon Jones. I know Jones has a fight at UFC100 but, maybe he’d be ready. The only inactives at 205 with any kind of name are mainly TUF alum such as: Krzysztof, Ryan Bader, Eliot Marshall, and why not throw Houston Alexander back out there for good measure (inactive and he’s known). Thoughts?
main card will be Rampage vs Evans with a co-main event being Mia vs Marquert (sp?)
With Dos Santos being pulled from 102(I haven’t heard about an injury) maybe the main event will be Cro Cop vs Dos Santos. The news the other day with lorenzo flying to meet cro cop would make it all make sense. That would be a perfect card for free on spike as well.
Do I win something? I really hope that wasn’t posted somewhere else earlier.
It was. Four hours earlier.
Possible main events:
Cane vs Franklin
Wanderlei vs Cote
Dos Santos vs Cro Cop
Sanchez vs Edgar
If any combination of 2 of the fights above get included in this card will turn this card into a very solid one!
Here’s a question for the panel, when will season 10 of TUF finish? What is the projected date for Jackson/Evans?
Dude I am right with you I was thinking Franklin vs Cane!
cro cop head kick
This card is just pitiful!
Pitiful? All fights are close – can’t ask for more. I’m sure you just want big names and hype
so is your intelligence on the matter.
I love and RESPECT the sport and this is a good card , but coming back to TEXAS needs cro cop and franklin to be for sure not just rumors. Please
This fight card sucks i thought Dana White was trying to draw ppv not push it away to boxing (how r u suppose to keep with mayweather with chumps on the fight card)
Dana is trying to set up Tito vs. Ace for 103. they just recently made up and/or made out.
yall are all ridiculous… what do u want brock lesnar on every card? have any of yall that are saying this card sucks every seem a tyson griffin fight? swick and kampmann is gonna be great, sherk tibeau great, cigano cro cop great
come on, sherk on a undercard…… switch em up with cole and efrain
This card is getting more and more stacked. Maybe not with the top fighter hype but a lot of these matches are tough to call.
Tito vs Franklin and I’ll rent this one over 101 and 102
UFC JUST CONFIRMED RICH FRANKLIN VS DAN HENDERSON 2 @UFC 103
Looks like this doesn’t look like such a bad card after all….
wtf?! this is the one of the worst matches set up by Joe Silva. They already fought this year!
I got my tickets!! Real fans will realize that this card is loaded with great fights. The only thing that would make it better would be a belt…
real fans??
real fans: (noun) – those who will watch this event because they enjoy watching mma, and will not only get excited about a title fight.
i think this card looks pretty bad ass and i got my tickets earlier this week. im hella pumped and cant wait to watch ace bring it to 1-1
Great card, I agree. Not sure why everyone is whining.
Contrary to most replies here, i think this card is shaping up fantastically. A lot of close fights. Looking forward to it.
good card xcept for the main event! Franklin shud of fought sum1 else & hendog shud of got a rematch with the spider!!
whys hendo fighting franklin again. thats a step back!!!!!!
Monsta Lobsta!!
hendo vs frankin 2???? hendo’s getting paid big to take this fight again with the title shot on the line!!!!!!!!!
That fight is off, ufc took it off their website and dw said there is gonna be a big announcement this friday, i’m guessing Tito vs. Franklin to headline ufc 103……
it won’t be hendo vs franklin now
i also request more fights for our money, i actually think this card has at least 5 or 6 fights id like to see if not a good 90 percent of em. ufc is rippin us
boxing you pay 49.99 and you only get 3 fights so i think were gettin a good deal
their is a done of difference between a 45 dollar pay per view buy and being their live, plus car rental, airfare, hotel,
add it up real fans are the ones who make the trip to see them live not just watch it on tv
if dana is trying to draw ppv the headline should be franklin/ortiz
Ortiz won’t be ready, and I’m interested in seeing how good Belfort is against a solid Franklin. A tough test for sure wich may = fighting the winner of the Maia & Nate fight.
Vitor vs Franklin – this card is so stacked with great fights
Seems more like a UFN with Tyson Griffin as a main event, as shown on the poster, but that will change.
13 Fights?!? If I was at the card, that would seriously help make up for the lack of marquee fight. The fact that Sean Sherk is pushed into the undercard shows that there are are some good fights.
Now, if only they show 8+ of these on the pay per view.
My man mike swick is gonna knock out kampmann in the first round
why has sherk been taken of this card
no dissing frank but i GOTTA go wit my man KOS.
I don’t understand why Vitor is fighting at 205! This should be Hendo vs Belfort at 185. Winner fights Anderson, plain and simple. Franklin should be fighting little Nog.
But, after thinking about it, it’s all about the timing and the need of a main event matchup. It will only be 10 weeks since 100, and Dana practically promised Hendo a rematch, but I think that fighters need to prove themselves more before getting a shot at Anderson. Especially when they already had a shot. I would be much more excited about Anderson’s next title defense being against the winner of Hendo/Belfort, than just Hendo. Then have Maia/Marquart winner fight Okami/Sonnen winner for Anderson’s last title defense at 185. Then he is at 205 permanently.
Did I not almost call that!?! Ace vs Vitor instead of the injured Cane at 195 and Jr vs Cro Cop! Both of those fights are going to be a lot of fun to watch! Then the 2 solid matchups at 170 and a very deep undercard with Escudero, Matyushenko, Marshall and McFedries, not to mention Tyson vs Hermes on the main card! This has to be one of the deepest cards of the year. A close second to 100.
Heard Spike is showing under cards from 9 to 10pm
Texas vs Texas Tech that night for College fans in Texas – Go Longhorns
I didn’t read all the comments but I though Kimb Slice was on this card
i would love to see franklin fight rampage even though it wont happen soon