COMPLETED·Saturday, November 17, 2007

UFC 78: Validation

Prudential Center·Newark, New Jersey

78Strong

Card rating

+57 over-delivered

Results: 9 of 9final
Finishes: 667% of results
Fastest finish: R1 1:14Joe Lauzon
Top score: 134.59 FPFrankie Edgar

Main eventRashad Evans def. Michael Bisping — SD

Attendance: 14,071
Gate: $2,100,000

Highlights

Post-event

Fastest finish

Joe Lauzon vs Jason Reinhardt

Submission · R1 · 1:14

Lightweight

Finishes by method

KO / TKO4 · 44%

Submission2 · 22%

Decision3 · 33%

Knockdowns: 3
Most sig strikes: 84Parisyan vs Chonan
Most finish attempts: 4Doerksen vs Herman

Main event

WRashad Evans20-8-1——

LMichael BispingL230-9——

Light Heavyweight

Decision (Split)

R3 · 5:00

ref · Dan Miragliotta

Co-main event

WThiago Silva21-9——

LHouston AlexanderL217-16-1——

Light Heavyweight

KO/TKO

R1 · 3:25

ref · Dan Miragliotta

Main card

WKaro ParisyanL224-12——

LRyo ChonanW222-13——

Welterweight

Decision (Unanimous)

R3 · 5:00

ref · Kevin Mulhall

WEd HermanL226-16——

LJoe DoerksenW451-16——

Middleweight

KO/TKO

R3 · 0:39

ref · Kevin Mulhall

WFrankie EdgarL324-11-1——

LSpencer FisherL324-9——

Lightweight

Decision (Unanimous)

R3 · 5:00

ref · Dan Miragliotta

Preliminary card

WThiago AlvesL223-15——

LChris Lytle31-18-5——

Welterweight

KO/TKO

R2 · 5:00

ref · Dan Miragliotta

WJoe Lauzon28-15——

LJason ReinhardtL220-3——

Lightweight

Submission

R1 · 1:14

ref · Kevin Mulhall

Early prelims

WMarcus Aurelio22-10——

LLuke Caudillo17-17——

Lightweight

KO/TKO

R1 · 4:29

ref · Kevin Mulhall

WAkihiro GonoW238-24-8——

LTamdan McCroryL214-5——

Welterweight

Submission

R2 · 3:19

ref · Dan Miragliotta

Fight stats· 9 of 9 fights final


Frankie Edgar vs Spencer Fisher	WUD	—	42/79	162	8/12	0	0	13:13	134.59
Marcus Aurelio vs Luke Caudillo	WKO/TKO · R1 4:29	—	20/27	71	1/4	0	0	2:23	117.49
Karo Parisyan vs Ryo Chonan	WUD	—	49/110	117	7/9	0	0	7:24	111.52
Thiago Silva vs Houston Alexander	WKO/TKO · R1 3:25	—	22/35	33	1/1	0	0	1:56	109.48
Ed Herman vs Joe Doerksen	WKO/TKO · R3 0:39	—	43/74	89	2/3	1	0	6:33	108.19
Akihiro Gono vs Tamdan McCrory	WSub · R2 3:19	—	27/44	39	1/1	1	1	2:35	102.85
Joe Lauzon vs Jason Reinhardt	WSub · R1 1:14	—	5/7	8	1/2	0	1	0:56	99.28
Thiago Alves vs Chris Lytle	WKO/TKO · R2 5:00	—	39/90	48	0/0	1	0	0:32	98.36
Rashad Evans vs Michael Bisping	WSD	—	23/87	38	6/16	0	0	7:43	86.09
Chris Lytle vs Thiago Alves	LKO/TKO · R2 5:00	—	42/128	88	1/1	0	0	2:29	35.47
Michael Bisping vs Rashad Evans	LSD	—	40/96	52	2/2	0	0	0:33	29.39
Ryo Chonan vs Karo Parisyan	LUD	—	35/87	57	0/0	0	0	1:50	26.70
Tamdan McCrory vs Akihiro Gono	LSub · R2 3:19	—	31/62	32	0/0	0	0	1:08	14.64
Joe Doerksen vs Ed Herman	LKO/TKO · R3 0:39	—	9/19	16	1/5	0	3	1:55	13.45
Spencer Fisher vs Frankie Edgar	LUD	—	6/21	31	0/0	0	0	0:00	7.40
Houston Alexander vs Thiago Silva	LKO/TKO · R1 3:25	—	2/8	2	1/1	0	0	0:28	6.64
Luke Caudillo vs Marcus Aurelio	LKO/TKO · R1 4:29	—	6/13	11	0/1	0	0	0:15	3.85
Jason Reinhardt vs Joe Lauzon	LSub · R1 1:14	—	1/3	1	0/0	0	0	0:00	0.40