An undercard featuring one of the wildest brawls of all-time with Leonard Garcia getting a controversial decision over Chan Sung Jung, the Korean Zombie, and a battle with Brad Pickett vs. Demetrious Mighty Mouse Johnson that ended up stealing the show. The former was immediately being talked about as one of the all-time great fights.

Garcia vs. Chan aired on Spike just before the PPV was about to start, and was certainly responsible for selling at least some late impulse buys. That fight had about 832,000 viewers watching when it started. By the time it was over, even though neither are names that have any drawing power, the audience nearly doubled, reaching more than 1.5 million viewers. I can’t recall a single fight in history that nearly doubled its audience from first bell to last. It would be interesting to note how many people watched that fight and made an impulse PPV buy when it was over.

When it was over, both guys looked like they had just survived a nasty car wreck. Garcia broke his right hand in the first round. His face was all swollen and marked up. Chan’s face was marked up as well, although not as bad as Garcia, but he had his right arm in a sling and ice on the hands. Both got $65,000 bonus checks for best fight (prior WEC shows offered $10,000 bonuses), came to the press conference, talked for a while, and then both were taken to the hospital. I didn’t think anything could beat Josh Thomson vs. Gilbert Melendez for match of the year this year, but this fight may be a lock, because when it was over, people were talking fight of the decade.

The Spike special overall did a 0.78 rating and 1.0 million viewers, which overall would be the lowest of any of the PPV prelim specials on Spike. That wasn’t a surprise, since Spike didn’t promote it like it would have done for a UFC event.

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