Background
The main event featured number-one contender Rashad Evans fighting Forrest Griffin for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship belt.
Forrest Griffin is a fighter who employs a style known as sprawl and brawl. Sprawl and brawl is a style where the fighter uses defensive wrestler, a sprawl, to keep the fight on standing where they can strike. Forrest Griffin is often praised for his heart, and well rounded MMA game. He became the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion by defeating Quinton Jackson at UFC 86.
The first co-main event saw former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir against former Pride Heavyweight Champion and then current Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.
The other co-main event was a fight between former UFC Light-heavyweight champion Quinton Jackson and former PRIDE Middleweight champion Wanderlei Silva.
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