MONTREAL
- Middleweight Jason MacDonald pounded out a win in an all-Canadian
grudge match with rival Joe Doerksen on Saturday night at UFC 83 before a raucous Bell Centre crowd of about 22,000 fans in UFC's Canadian debut.
MacDonald (21-9) finished the mixed martial arts fight with a string of
elbows to the head, then stood over his fallen opponent after referee
Steve Mazzagatti stopped the bout 56 seconds into the second round.
The fight was on the undercard of the Matt Serra-Georges St. Pierre welterweight title showdown.
The Canadian show ranks as the biggest - and fastest sellout - in UFC
history. The previous attendance record was 19,049, set at UFC 68 on
March 3, 2007, at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
Also, welterweight Jonathan Goulet of Victoriaville earned the first UFC win on Canadian soil when he survived some heavy punishment late in the rough first round to stop Kuniyoshi Hironaka at 2:07 of the second.
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