UFC 116 Lesnar vs Carwin 2010-07-03

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UFC 116 Lesnar vs Carwin

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Sat 3rd July 2010 (UTC)

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UFC

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2010

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13

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Shane Carwin, who won the Interim Heavyweight Championship by defeating Frank Mir at UFC 111, faced current heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar. The two were originally set to face each other at UFC 106, then UFC 108, before Carwin won the interim heavyweight championship, but Lesnar pulled out of the fight both times due to an illness (diverticulitis) that kept him from training.
Cheick Kongo was scheduled to face Roy Nelson, but a back injury sidelined Kongo. Nelson fought Junior dos Santos at UFC 117.
Alessio Sakara was set to fight Nate Marquardt, but Sakara pulled out of the bout after the death of his father.
Jacob Volkmann was scheduled to fight Paul Kelly as one of the preliminary fights, but Kelly reportedly had to pull out of the July 3 fight due to visa issues. The bout was rescheduled for UFC Live: Jones vs. Matyushenko the next month.
Also, UFC newcomer Ricardo Romero was scheduled to fight Steve Cantwell after Cantwell's recent medical ban ended. However, the fight was cancelled for unknown reasons and Cantwell was replaced by UFC returnee Seth Petruzelli.
On June 17, 2010, Julio Paulino was injured and withdrew from his fight against Daniel Roberts. Forrest Petz returned to the UFC and replaced Paulino.
On June 22, 2010, Wanderlei Silva had to withdraw from his co-main event fight against Yoshihiro Akiyama due to three broken ribs and an injured right knee. Akiyama was then matched against Chris Leben.
The bout between Kendall Grove and Goran Reljic was originally slated for the live prelims show on Spike TV. However, it was later demoted and replaced by Seth Petruzelli vs. Ricardo Romero because of Grove's criticism of the Spike TV network and The Ultimate Fighter television show.
UFC President Dana White confirmed that the winner of the heavyweight title fight will defend the title against the undefeated Cain Velasquez.
UFC 116 won Best Major Show in the 2010 Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards.

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Result Description
Heavyweight Brock Lesnar (c) def. Shane Carwin (ic) Submission (arm-triangle choke) 2 2:19 [a]
Middleweight Chris Leben def. Yoshihiro Akiyama Submission (triangle choke) 3 4:40
Welterweight Chris Lytle def. Matt Brown Submission (inverted triangle-straight armbar) 2 2:02
Light Heavyweight Stephan Bonnar def. Krzysztof Soszynski TKO (knee and punches) 2 3:08
Lightweight George Sotiropoulos def. Kurt Pellegrino Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28) 3 5:00

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