Murilo Bustamante (Photo: allwrestlingsuperstars.com)
UFC 37: High Impact –
Bossier City, La. – CenturyTel Center – May 10, 2002
Usually, a tapout will end a fight, but Murilo Bustamante
needed two submissions to retain his middleweight title at UFC 37.
Bustamante apparently forced Matt Lindland to tap out to an
armbar, but Lindland claimed he did not tap out. Referee John McCarthy
restarted the fight.
The champion cleared up the controversy by forcing Lindland
to tap out to a guillotine choke in Round 3.
Bustamante was stripped of the middleweight title later in
the year when he jumped to PRIDE Fighting Championships.
Ricco Rodriguez improved his UFC record to 4-0 with a win
over Tsuyoshi Kohsaka. All four of Rodriguez’s wins came by TKO.
Caol Uno stayed in the lightweight title picture with a
unanimous-decision victory over Yves Edwards.
In other PPV matches, BJ Penn defeated Paul Creighton by TKO
in Round 2; and Phil Baroni beat Amar Suloev by TKO at the 2:55 mark.
Ivan Salaverry and “Ruthless” Robbie Lawler debuted with
victories in preliminary bouts. Salaverry beat Andrei Semenov on a third-round
TKO; and Lawler beat Aaron Riley by unanimous decision.
In other prelim bout, Benji Radach needed only 27 seconds to
beat Steve Berger by TKO. However, the result was later changed to a
no-contest because the referee incorrectly stopped the fight.
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