UFC 73 Results:

Heavily favored Rodrigo Nogueira beat Heath Herring in the first of several UFC 73 matchups.  The first UFC 73 Stacked results had Nogueira winning by a unanimous decision.

A win by Herring would have resulted in a $700 payout for every $100 bet at Sports Betting at BetUS.com

Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira (June 2, 1976 in Vitoria da Conquista, Brazil) is a heavyweight fighter in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), known for his technical mastery of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and his submission victories.

Nogueira is also noted to be a proficient striker, training annually with the Cuban National Boxing Team. He rose to fame in the Japanese PRIDE Fighting Championship promotion, and has recently been signed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship He is the former PRIDE heavyweight champion, as well as the former interim PRIDE heavyweight champion. Nogueira is currently ranked as the world #2 heavyweight by MMA Weekly, and holds wins over notable fighters such as Mirko Filipović, Josh Barnett, Dan Henderson, Mark Coleman, Sergei Kharitonov, Fabricio Werdum, Semmy Schilt, Ricco Rodriguez, Bob Sapp and Jeremy Horn.

Noguerira was favored heavily in UFC 73 having beaten Herring on two previous occasions.  The first time, for the Pride Heavyweight Title at Pride 17 with a decisive and dominant unanimous decision. He defeated him again with an anaconda choke in second round of the Open Weight Grand Prix at Pride Critical Countdown 2004.

UFC 73 turned out to be a very close win for Noguerira and could easily have gone the other way with the unanimous decision. 

Other results included:

Ortiz Evans Fight: Ends in Draw
Sean Sherk Wins as Favorite in UFC 73

Silva knocks out Marquardt in Round 1.

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Tyrone Black, Sports911.com

Originally published July 7, 2007 10:57 pm ET