UFC 3: The American Dream
UFC 3: The American Dream | |
information | |
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date | September 9, 1994 |
Venue | Grady Cole Center |
city | Charlotte , North Carolina , United States |
Number of visitors | 3,000 |
PPV sales | 90,000 |
Event chronology | |
← UFC 2: No Way Out | |
UFC chronology | |
← UFC 2: No Way Out |
The Ultimate Fighting Championship III (later renamed UFC 3: The American Dream ) was a mixed martial arts event of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). It took place on September 9, 1994 at the Grady Cole Center in Charlotte , North Carolina , United States and was broadcast on pay-per-view .
background
UFC 3 was played in the format of an eight-man tournament , the winner of which received $ 60,000 . There were no weight classes or weight limits in the tournament. As with UFC 1: The Beginning and UFC 2: No Way Out, the individual fights had no time limits or rounds, so no judges were present. A fight could only be decided by giving up , knockout , technical knockout and for the first time by referee decision. Referee in every fight that night was John McCarthy .
Steve Jennum won the tournament by beating Harold Howard in the final . Jennum had only made it into the final as a replacement for Ken Shamrock , who could no longer compete due to an injury, making this his only fight of the evening. It was the first UFC tournament that was not won by Royce Gracie , as he was also eliminated due to injury before his semi-final against Howard.
After Jennum won the tournament as a substitute, the UFC initiated alternative qualification bouts at the following events, thus preventing the advantage of a possible substitute fighter of having previously completed one or two fewer bouts.
Results
KO = knockout ; TKO = technical knockout ; SUB = task by tapping .
Overview
winner | loser | method | time |
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Quarter finals | |||
Keith Hackney | Emmanuel Yarborough | TKO | 01:59 |
Ken Shamrock | Christophe Leininger | SUB | 04:49 |
Harold Howard | Roland Payne | KO | 00:46 |
Royce Gracie 1 | Kimo Leopoldo | SUB | 04:40 |
Semifinals | |||
Ken Shamrock | Felix Mitchell 2 | SUB | 04:34 |
final | |||
Steve Jennum 3 | Harold Howard | SUB | 01:27 |
Tournament tree
Quarter finals | Semifinals | final | |||||||||||
Keith Hackney | TKO | ||||||||||||
Emmanuel Yarborough | 01:59 | ||||||||||||
Felix Mitchell 1 | 04:34 | ||||||||||||
Ken Shamrock | SUB | ||||||||||||
Ken Shamrock | SUB | ||||||||||||
Christophe Leininger | 04:49 | ||||||||||||
Steve Jennum 3 | SUB | ||||||||||||
Harold Howard | 01:27 | ||||||||||||
Harold Howard | KO | ||||||||||||
Roland Payne | 00:46 | ||||||||||||
Harold Howard | 2 | ||||||||||||
Royce Gracie | SUB | ||||||||||||
Kimo Leopoldo | 04:40 |
See also
Individual evidence
Web links
- UFC 3: The American Dream in the Sherdog database .
- UFC 3 on the UFC homepage.