UFC 58

UFC 58: USA vs. Canada was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on March 4, 2006. It was held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, and broadcast live on pay-per-view in the United States.

Background

In keeping with the theme of the card, most of the fights featured an American fighter against a Canadian fighter.

Five of the seven Canadian fighters featured, Icho Larenas, Sam Stout, Mark Hominick, Georges St-Pierre, and David Loiseau, were at the time champions in the Canadian TKO Major League MMA promotion.

The show drew a live gate of $1,758,450. The disclosed fighter payroll for UFC 58 was $207,000.

The final scorecard for United States vs. Canada was United States 5, Canada 3.

This event also featured the return of the lightweight division to the UFC, which had been suspended since UFC 49

Reported payout

Georges St. Pierre: $48,000

Rich Franklin: $32,000

Nathan Marquardt: $30,000

BJ Penn: $25,000

Tom Murphy: $10,000

Mike Swick: $10,000

David Loiseau: $9,000

Spencer Fisher: $8,000

Yves Edwards: $8,000

Rob Macdonald: $5,000

Joe Doerksen: $5,000

Jason Lambert: $4,000

Mark Hominick: $4,000

Sam Stout: $4,000

Icho Larenas: $3,000

Steve Vigneault: $2,000

Disclosed Fighter Payroll: $207,000

Encyclopedia awards

The following fighters were honored in the October 2011 book titled UFC Encyclopedia.

• Fight of the Night: Rich Franklin vs. David Loiseau and Georges St-Pierre vs. B.J. Penn
• Knockout of the Night: Tom Murphy
• Submission of the Night: Mark Hominick

See also

• Ultimate Fighting Championship
• List of UFC champions
• List of UFC events
• 2006 in UFC

Sources

• Mixed martial arts show results, Mandalay Bay, March 4, 2006 (PDF), Nevada State Athletic Commission, retrieved March 20, 2006
• "Franklin Dominates Loiseau; 'Rush' Beats Penn at UFC 58" by Thomas Gerbasi, UFC.tv, March 5, 2006, retrieved March 5, 2006
• UFC PPV Buys Explode in 2006
• UFC Fighter Salaries for 2006 (includes fighter salaries for UFC 58)