UFC on Fuel 4 took place this Wednesday night at the HP Pavilion. The fans at the HP Pavilion as well as the viewers at home were treated to a great night of fights. The main event on paper really seemed like it would be a close affair, but we saw a one-sided performance by Chris Weidman over Mark Muñoz.  Weidman outwrestled Muñoz in the first round, and in the second Weidman caught Muñoz coming in with a viscous elbow that dropped Muñoz to the floor. From there Weidman rained down with punches until he was pulled off by referee, Josh Rosenthol. In the post fight speech, Weidman called out champion, Anderson Silva, for his next fight and alerted the UFC brass that every time he has had a full camp, he has gotten a finish. Weidman improves his undefeated record to 9-0.

In the co-main event James Te-Huna and Joey Beltran put on a 3 round war. Beltran, who was making his light heavyweight debut, took a five minute beating in the first round, and was almost finished multiple times. Beltran was able to survive, and came out in the second and the third bring the fight to Te-Huna. At the end of the second, Beltran almost dropped Te-Huna, but the whole fight all together belonged to Te-Huna. They broke the record for most significant strikes landed in one fight in the light heavyweight division, and Te-Huna did more than enough to get the unanimous decision.

UFC on Fuel Fight Bonuses ($40,000)

Fight of The Night: James Te-Huna Vs Joey Beltran
Knockout of The Night: Chris Weidman
Submission of The Night: Alex Caceres

UFC On Fuel Official Results:

Middleweight
Mark Muñoz vs. Chris Weidman
Chris Weidman defeats Mark Muñoz by Technical Knockout at 1:37 of round 2

Light Heavyweight
James Te-Huna vs. Joey Beltran
James Te-Huna defeats Joey Beltran by Unanimous Decision (30-26, 30-27, 30-27)

Welterweight 30-27 29-28xs
Aaron Simpson vs. Kenny Robertson
Aaron Simpson defeats Kenny Robertson by Unanimous Decision (30-27, 29-28×2)

Middleweight
Karlos Vemola vs. Francis Carmont
Francis Carmont defeats Karlos Vemola by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 1:39 of round 2

Bantamweight
T.J. Dillashaw vs. Vaughan Lee
T.J. Dillashaw defeats Vaughan Lee by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 2:33 in round 1

Lightweight
Rafael dos Anjos vs. Anthony Njokuani
Rafael dos Anjos defeats Anthony Njokuani by Unanimous Decision (30-27 x2, 29-28)

Preliminary Card (Facebook)

Bantamweight
Damacio Page vs. Alex Caceres
Alex Caceres defeats Damacio Page by Submission (Triangle Choke) at 1:27 of round 2

Flyweight
Chris Cariaso vs. Josh Ferguson
Chris Cariaso defeats Josh Ferguson by Unanimous Decision (30-27×3)

Middleweight
Rafael Natal vs. Andrew Craig
Andrew Craig defeats Rafael Natal by Knockout (Head Kick) at 4:52 of round 2

Welterweight
Marcelo Guimaraes vs. Dan Stittgen
Marcelo Guimaraes defeats Dan Stittgen via Split Decision (28-29, 29-28, 29-28)

Bantamweight
Raphael Assunção vs. Issei Tamura
Raphael Assunção defeats Issei Tamura  by Technical Knockout (strikes) at :35 of round 2

The weigh ins for UFC On FUEL 4: Munoz vs Weidman took place today in San Jose, California. All fighters made weight, and all fights are set to go down tomorrow night at the HP Pavillion. The main event features Mark Muñoz and Chris Weidman, and although it has not been announced by UFC brass, rumors run rampant that this fight could determine the next opponent for Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva.

The event will be broadcast live on FUEL TV tomorrow night, and below are the full results.

Middleweight
Mark Muñoz 186 lbs
Chris Weidman 186 lbs

Light Heavyweight
James Te-Huna 205 lbs
Joey Beltran 205 lbs

Welterweight
Aaron Simpson 171 lbs
Kenny Robertson 170 lbs

Middleweight
Karlos Vemola 186 lbs
Francis Carmont 186 lbs

Bantamweight
T.J. Dillashaw 136 lbs
Vaughan Lee 135 lbs

Lightweight
Rafael dos Anjos 156 lbs
Anthony Njokuani 156 lbs

Preliminary Card (Facebook)
Bantamweight
Damacio Page 136 lbs
Alex Caceres 136 lbs

Flyweight
Chris Cariaso 125 lbs
Josh Ferguson 125 lbs

Middleweight
Rafael Natal 186 lbs
Andrew Craig 185 lbs

Welterweight
Marcelo Guimaraes 171 lbs
Dan Stittgen 170 lbs

Bantamweight
Raphael Assunção 136 lbs
Issei Tamura 135 lbs

UFC 144 took place on Saturday February 25 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan (though it happened on Sunday morning locally in Japan). The pay-per-view was super-sized with seven fights airing live during the broadcast. Including the first fight of the night between Issei Tamura and Tiequan Zhang that was originally aired on Facebook, all twelve fights ended up being broadcast either on FX or during the pay-per-view broadcast.

On RecapRadio Brent Todd and John Petit had given their predictions for the event. Even just going with the winners they thought would win, Todd went 2-5 and Petit went 4-3. The results were some of the most exciting and craziest in recent history.

Vaughan Lee submits Kid Yamamoto via Iron Forges Iron

The submission of the night award was easy to hand out as there was only one submission. Vaughan Lee defeated Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto by armbar late in the first round. The two each blasted the other with big punches with Yamamoto nearly finishing early in the round. But Lee was able to recover and after Yamamoto was hurt, Lee rushed and locked in a triangle. The submission looked deep, but Yamamoto wasn’t tapping. Lee switched to an armbar and that was all that was needed to earn the tap.

Five fights ended by either knockout or technical knockout making the decision for who would earn the $65,000 bonus difficult. The first fight of the night between Tamura and Zhang was a great start to the night as Tamura landed a vicious right that sent Zhang to la-la-land.

Still part of the preliminary fights, Takanori Gomi showed some of what made Gomi so popular as he was able to earn a technical knockout over Eiji Mitsuoka. In the second round while both fighters seemed extremely gassed, Gomi started to connect with his strikes. It wasn’t long before Mitsuoka wasn’t responding and Gomi just unloaded everything he had into punching Mitsuoka until the referee was forced to stop the fight.

Both Tim Boetsch and Mark Hunt had impressive knockouts in their bouts against Yushin Okami and Cheick Kongo respectively. Boetsch was losing his fight to Okami badly. Knowing he was down two rounds to none Boetsch came out in the third swinging. He staggered Okami with a straight punch. Boetsch smelled blood and swarmed with tricky uppercuts. The assault of uppercuts continued until Okami fell to the floor in a bad way and Boetsch landed two more before the ref stopped the fight.

Many felt that Hunt was going to be seriously outmatchedand outworked by Kongo. But that never happened. Early in the fight Hunt dropped Kongo but decided to let Kongo get right back up. The second time he wasn’t as nice as he swarmed Kongo and rained down punch after punch until Herb Dean was force to save Kongo from eating any more damage.

Anthony Pettis KO's Joe Lauzon - via Iron Forges Iron

With Boetsch’s come from behind knockout and Hunt’s impressive striking display it would take a special kind of knockout to earn the extra $65,000. And an impressive knockout did happen. Anthony Pettis and Joe Lauzon seemed happy to trade punches. Pettis lands a kick to the body on Lauzon but Lauzon continues to press forward. Pettis threw another kick, Lauzon went to block it low, but the kick sailed high and connected perfectly on Lauzon’s head and Lauzon was unconscious.

Frankie Edgar vs Ben Henderson - via Iron Forges Iron

The main event screamed Fight of the Night award even before the first punch was thrown. Frankie Edgar and Ben Henderson have been in several battles that were amazing and exciting. Edgar caught nearly every one of Henderson’s kicks and then proceeded to punch him in the face for even throwing a kick. But Henderson had more than just kicks at the ready as he blasted Edgar with straight punches that bloodied up Edgar quickly. The fight was a twenty-five minute back and forth battle that was extremely close. The judges had their work cut out for them but in the end they awarded the fight to Henderson crowing a new champ. Even though Edgar lost, he still pocketed an extra $65,000 for the performance as the fight was deemed the Fight of the Night.

Quick Results
Benson Henderson defeated Frankie Edgar via unanimous decision (49-46, 48-47, 49-46)
Ryan Bader defeated Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Mark Hunt defeated Cheick Kongo via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 2:11
Jake Shields defeated Yoshihiro Akiyama via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Tim Boetsch defeated Yushin Okami via TKO (punches) – Round 3, 0:54
Hatsu Hioki defeated Bart Palaszewski via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
Anthony Pettis defeated Joe Lauzon via knockout (kick and punches) – Round 1, 1:21
Takanori Gomi defeated Eiji Mitsuoka via TKO (punches) – Round 2, 2:21
Vaughan Lee defeated Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto via submission (armbar) – Round 1, 4:29
Riki Fukuda defeated Steve Cantwell via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
Chris Cariaso defeated Takeya Mizugaki via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).
Issei Tamura defeated Tiequan Zhang via knockout (punch) – Round 2, 0:32