Live Gate/Attendance
The UFC On FOX 3 fight card, headlined by Nate Diaz and Jim Miller drew 10,788 fans to the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey for a live gate of $1.1 million.
UFC president Dana White announced the figures at the event's post-fight press conference.
Fight Night Bonuses
UFC on FOX 3: Diaz vs. Miller went down tonight from the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey. As usual the superlative fighters of the night were given performance bonuses, this time in the amount of $65,000.
Fight of the Night was awarded to flyweights Louis Gaudinot and John Lineker, who battled back and forth before Gaudinot sunk in the fight-ending rear naked choke in the second round.
Lavar Johnson took home Knockout of the Night for his impressive stoppage of Pat Barry. After overcoming some brief adversity on the mat, Johnson pinned Barry to the cage and teed off with repeated right uppercut-left hook combinations until his opponent slumped to the mat.
Finally, Submission of the Night went to Nate Diaz, who forced Jim Miller to tap to a guillotine in the night's main event. With the win, Diaz earned a title shot and became the first man to ever finish Miller.
Medical Suspensions
-Johny Hendricks: suspended indefinitely pending opthalmological exam (right eye)
-Josh Koscheck: suspended indefinitely pending CT scan of facial bones
-Alan Belcher: suspended indefinitely pending X-ray of right hand
-Lavar Johnson: suspended indefinitely pending X-ray of left hand
-Tony Ferguson: suspended indefinitely pending X-ray of left forearm
-John Dodson: suspended indefinitely pending X-ray of left hand
-Pascal Krauss: suspended indefinitely pending X-ray of right foot
-Louis Gaudinot: suspended indefinitely pending X-rays of both left and right hands and 30 days for a tough fight
-Danny Castillo: suspended indefinitely pending X-ray of right hand
-Nick Denis: suspended indefinitely pending CT facial (orbits) and CT of head and suspended 30 days for a tough fight
-Rousimar Palhares: suspended 30 days for TKO loss
-Pat Barry: suspended 30 days for TKO loss
-John Lineker: suspended 30 days for submission loss
-Dennis Bermudez: suspended 60 days for facial laceration healing
Preliminary Card
Karlos Vemola defeated Mike Massenzio via submission (rear naked choke) 1:07 of round 2
Roland Delorme defeated Nick Denis via submission (rear naked choke) at 4:59 of round 1
Dennis Bermudez defeated Pablo Garza via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Danny Castillo defeated John Cholish via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Louis Gaudinot defeated John Lineker via submission (guillotine) at 4:54 of round 2
John Hathaway defeated Pascal Krauss via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
John Dodson defeated Tim Elliot via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Michael Johnson defeated Tony Ferguson via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Main Card
Lavar Johnson defeated Pat Barry via TKO (strikes) at 4:38 of round 1
Alan Belcher defeated Rousimar Palhares via TKO (strikes) at 4:18 of round 1
Johny Hendricks defeated Josh Koscheck via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Nate Diaz defeated Jim Miller via submission (guillotine) at 4:09 of round 2
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The fast national numbers are in for last night's show and it totalled 2.25 million viewers. It should be noted that this is a number that measured what was on from 8-10 p.m. on all the FOX stations, which means on the West Coast, it measured whatever the station aired in that slot. Some stations aired a replay of the fights and many aired other programming.
But no matter how you slice it, the number was very bad. That number would work out to a rating in the 1.2 or 1.3 range, horrible for first-run network programming. With the West Coast, the number could rise. The first show rose about 19% but the second show didn't rise at all from the original number, so we're looking at a final number probably between a 1.2 and 1.6.
The 1/28 show did a 2.6 rating and 4.7 million viewers.