Curly Howard
11-18-2004, 01:31 AM
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TITO ORTIZ TO FIGHT VITOR BELFORT IN MAIN
EVENT OF UFC® 51: SUPER SATURDAY, ON FEB. 5
Tickets Go On Sale at 10 a.m., Friday, Nov. 19, For 8-Fight, All-Star Card at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS -- In a fight many Ultimate Fighting Championship® fans have waited more than three years to see, “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Tito Ortiz will step into the Octagon Feb. 5, 2005 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino Events Center to fight Brazilian star Vitor “The Phenom” Belfort in the main event of UFC® 51: Super Saturday.
Tickets for the all-star fight card go on sale at 10 a.m. (PST) Friday, Nov. 19, at the Mandalay Bay Box Office (877-632-7400) in Las Vegas, at all Ticketmaster locations, and on the internet at www.ticketmaster.com and www.mandalaybay.com.
Tickets for this event are priced at $350, $250, $150, $75 and $35. To order tickets by telephone call 877-880-0880 or 702-891-7777. Ticket purchases are subject to transaction fees. UFC® 51: Super Saturday will be available LIVE on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. EST on iNDemand, DirecTV, Dish Network, TVN, Bell ExpressVu and Viewers Choice Canada. The suggested retail price is $29.95.
Ortiz (12-4-0 in mixed martial arts) from Huntington Beach, Ca., is determined to defeat Belfort (12-4-0) from Sao Paulo, Brazil, in a bout that should have taken place more than three years ago – on Sept. 28, 2001 at the same venue, the Mandalay Bay Events Center.
Ortiz-Belfort was set to be the main event of UFC 33: Victory in Vegas, but had to be canceled two weeks prior to fight night when Belfort sustained a serious right elbow injury while training. Vladimir Matyushenko, a tough competitor, stepped in on short notice to replace Belfort, but Ortiz was too strong and retained the UFC World Light Heavyweight Championship by judge’s decision. Ortiz later lost the title to Randy “The Natural” Couture at UFC 44: Undisputed.
In the meantime, Belfort recovered from his injury and went on to defeat Couture to win the championship belt at UFC 46: Super Natural. Belfort caught Couture with a glancing left hook in the first 30 seconds of the fight that opened a deep cut under Couture’s left eye. As the fighters clinched, referee John McCarthy stopped the fight at the :48 mark so Nevada State Athletic Commission doctors could check the cut. Couture suffered a corneal abrasion that impaired his vision and NSAC doctors advised that Couture could not continue.
Couture’s eye injury healed and he returned to recapture the championship belt from Belfort at UFC 49: Unfinished Business.
Each fighter now hopes to improve his future by winning this big match from the past -- one that fans have talked about, dreamed about, and hoped would take place ever since its disappointing cancellation. It has been three-plus years in the making, but it is here now. Both fighters are already promising a swift and decisive victory, and fans are anxiously waiting to see this dream match-up take place.
The remaining all-star bouts of UFC 51: Super Saturday will be announced in the coming weeks.
Look for UFC’s reality television show The Ultimate Fighter to premier Jan. 17 on ****e TV. Follow 16 fighters each Monday night for 13 exciting episodes as they train, workout and live together. At the end of each week, one fighter from each of the two teams must fight in the Octagon® to avoid being kicked out of the UFC Training Center™ until only two remain in each of the two weight divisions. In the end, The Ultimate Fighter™ will be decided by a competition match -- a head-to-head fight to the finish inside the Octagon.
TITO ORTIZ TO FIGHT VITOR BELFORT IN MAIN
EVENT OF UFC® 51: SUPER SATURDAY, ON FEB. 5
Tickets Go On Sale at 10 a.m., Friday, Nov. 19, For 8-Fight, All-Star Card at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS -- In a fight many Ultimate Fighting Championship® fans have waited more than three years to see, “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Tito Ortiz will step into the Octagon Feb. 5, 2005 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino Events Center to fight Brazilian star Vitor “The Phenom” Belfort in the main event of UFC® 51: Super Saturday.
Tickets for the all-star fight card go on sale at 10 a.m. (PST) Friday, Nov. 19, at the Mandalay Bay Box Office (877-632-7400) in Las Vegas, at all Ticketmaster locations, and on the internet at www.ticketmaster.com and www.mandalaybay.com.
Tickets for this event are priced at $350, $250, $150, $75 and $35. To order tickets by telephone call 877-880-0880 or 702-891-7777. Ticket purchases are subject to transaction fees. UFC® 51: Super Saturday will be available LIVE on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. EST on iNDemand, DirecTV, Dish Network, TVN, Bell ExpressVu and Viewers Choice Canada. The suggested retail price is $29.95.
Ortiz (12-4-0 in mixed martial arts) from Huntington Beach, Ca., is determined to defeat Belfort (12-4-0) from Sao Paulo, Brazil, in a bout that should have taken place more than three years ago – on Sept. 28, 2001 at the same venue, the Mandalay Bay Events Center.
Ortiz-Belfort was set to be the main event of UFC 33: Victory in Vegas, but had to be canceled two weeks prior to fight night when Belfort sustained a serious right elbow injury while training. Vladimir Matyushenko, a tough competitor, stepped in on short notice to replace Belfort, but Ortiz was too strong and retained the UFC World Light Heavyweight Championship by judge’s decision. Ortiz later lost the title to Randy “The Natural” Couture at UFC 44: Undisputed.
In the meantime, Belfort recovered from his injury and went on to defeat Couture to win the championship belt at UFC 46: Super Natural. Belfort caught Couture with a glancing left hook in the first 30 seconds of the fight that opened a deep cut under Couture’s left eye. As the fighters clinched, referee John McCarthy stopped the fight at the :48 mark so Nevada State Athletic Commission doctors could check the cut. Couture suffered a corneal abrasion that impaired his vision and NSAC doctors advised that Couture could not continue.
Couture’s eye injury healed and he returned to recapture the championship belt from Belfort at UFC 49: Unfinished Business.
Each fighter now hopes to improve his future by winning this big match from the past -- one that fans have talked about, dreamed about, and hoped would take place ever since its disappointing cancellation. It has been three-plus years in the making, but it is here now. Both fighters are already promising a swift and decisive victory, and fans are anxiously waiting to see this dream match-up take place.
The remaining all-star bouts of UFC 51: Super Saturday will be announced in the coming weeks.
Look for UFC’s reality television show The Ultimate Fighter to premier Jan. 17 on ****e TV. Follow 16 fighters each Monday night for 13 exciting episodes as they train, workout and live together. At the end of each week, one fighter from each of the two teams must fight in the Octagon® to avoid being kicked out of the UFC Training Center™ until only two remain in each of the two weight divisions. In the end, The Ultimate Fighter™ will be decided by a competition match -- a head-to-head fight to the finish inside the Octagon.