This was the first UFC event to air a portion of the preliminary card live and commercial-free during an hour long block on
Spike. The
Efrain Escudero vs.
Cole Miller,
Drew McFedries vs.
Tomasz Drwal,
Rick Story vs.
Brian Foster, and the
Jim Miller vs. Steve Lopez fights were shown on Spike. As a part of the UFC/ESPN UK regionalization strategy the bout of
Paul Daley vs. Brian Foster was to air on
ESPN (UK) prior to Daley replacing
Mike Swick against
Martin Kampmann. The event was aired the same time
Floyd Mayweather fought Juan Manuel Márquez. Mayweather/Márquez drew a smaller crowd (13,116) but its gate was considerably higher at $6,811,300. It also sold more PPV buys (1,000,000). To date, this PPV had the largest amount of fights broadcast by the
UFC (13). It was announced on July 20, 2009 that
Rich Franklin would headline UFC 103 against
Dan Henderson. It was then announced on July 31, 2009 that fans were not happy with the announced headliner of Henderson-Franklin 2 so they changed the main event to feature Rich Franklin vs.
Vitor Belfort. "Fans didn't like it, so we changed it," UFC President Dana White said. A previously announced bout featuring
Steve Steinbeiss A previously announced bout featuring
Aaron Simpson was moved to
UFC 102. A knee injury forced
Matt Wiman out of a bout with
Rafael dos Anjos on July 23.
Rob Emerson filled in. A knee injury forced
Thiago Tavares out of his bout with Jim Miller on August 20. Tavares was replaced by UFC newcomer Steve Lopez. A back injury forced
Dan Lauzon out of his bout with
Rafaello Oliveira and he was replaced by
Nik Lentz. An injury forced Mike Swick out of his bout with Martin Kampmann and Paul Daley moved up from the undercard to face Kampmann. ==Results==