MMAVu

Main Event:

Nate Diaz ($48,000/win bonus $24,000) def. Melvin Guillard ($14,000)

*Diaz also pocketed an extra $30,000 for Submission of the Night, for his guillotine of Melvin.

Main Card:

Gray Maynard ($24,000/win bonus $12,000) def. Roger Huerta ($21,000)

Carlos Condit ($48,000/win bonus $24,000) def. Jake Ellenberger ($10,000)

Nate Quarry ($60,000/win bonus $30,000) def. Tim Credeur ($10,000)

*Quarry and Credeur each earned an extra $30,000 Fight of the Night

Prelim Card:

Brian Stann ($22,000/win bonus $11,000) def. Steve Cantwell ($10,000)

Mike Pyle ($30,000/win bonus $15,000) def. Chris Wilson ($17,000)

CB Dollaway ($28,000/win bonus $14,000) def. Jay Silva ($6,000)

Sam Stout ($24,000/ win bonus was $12,000) vs. Phillipe Nover ($20,000/win bonus was $10,000)

*This was a nice touch by the UFC, awarding both fighters their win bonuses, despite the fact the Oklahoma State Commission denied the fight, due to Nover suffering a seizure hours before fight time.

Jeremy Stephens ($24,000/win bonus $12,000) def. Justin Buchholz ($8,000)

*Stephens also got an extra $30,000 for Knockout of the Night…which was the only knockout of the night, but I don’t think L’il Heathen is complainin’

Mike Pierce ($12,000/win bonus $6,000) def. Brock Larson ($26,000)

Ryan Jensen ($8,000/win bonus $4,000) def. Steve Steinbeiss ($6,000)

Quick Jabs: Strikeforce 185lb Champion Cung Le has relinquished his title, the title he won from Frank Shamrock in March 2008. Le has never defended the title. He has been tied up with various outside film projects. Mayhem Miller and Jake Shields are expected to fight for the vacant belt this fall. Looks like the UFC isn’t the only ones with the Hollywood blues.

Is coming your way, and it has a bit of a curious headliner. To me, anyways.

Nate Diaz vs Melvin Guillard is the main event, with Roger Huerta vs Gray Maynard as the co-headliner. Want to bet had Roger Huerta re-signed with the company and not trashed their pay scales…he and Maynard would be the top billing?

Huerta was once the company’s Hispanic Golden Boy, the Bisping of Mexico. All that changed once he openly questioned the UFC’s pay, and then things got even worse after he declared his intentions to try his hand at acting after his contract was finished. The UFC let him sit on the bench for about a year before finally giving him this fight, to another tough wrestler along the lines of Clay Guida, who gave Huerta all he could handle. Seems like the UFC is trying to send him out like Tito Ortiz; with a loss.

And the UFC must be really high on Guillard to give him so many chances, what with his losses, his idiotic comments about Joe Stevenson on HGH, testing positive for cocaine right after the fight, and his arrests, among other things.

Nate Quarry also is reportedly returning to action against Tim Credeur on the card.