UFC Fight Night: Swick vs Burkman referred to by the media as UFC Fight Night 12 was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

 (MMA) event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship

Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is the largest mixed martial arts promotion company in the world that hosts most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport...

 (UFC) on January 23, 2008 at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas

Las Vegas Strip

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, Nevada

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. The main event featured former The Ultimate Fighter

The Ultimate Fighter

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 contestants Mike Swick

Mike Swick

Mike Swick is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship as a welterweight....

 and Josh Burkman

Josh Burkman

Joshua R. Burkman is an American mixed martial artist who is best known for his participation in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Before becoming a mixed martial artist, Burkman was an amateur wrestler. During his senior year of high school he finished second in his weight class at the state...

 in a welterweight matchup. This event was Swick's debut at welterweight, as he had been competing at middleweight prior to the show.

Preliminary card

• Lightweight bout:   Matt Wiman
  Matt Wiman
  Matthew Charles Wiman is an American mixed martial artist, who competes as a lightweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship...
  
   vs.   Justin Buchholz
  Justin Buchholz
  Justin Buchholz is an American mixed martial artist. Buchholz graduated from Lathrop High School in 2002, where he competed in wrestling. He competes in the Lightweight division.-Mixed martial arts career:...
  
  

Wiman defeated Buchholz via submission (rear naked choke) at 2:56 of round 1.

• Lightweight bout:   Corey Hill
  Corey Hill
  Corey Cornelius Hill is an American mixed martial artist. He was a high school state champion wrestler on multiple occasions in Florida. Hill was a multi-time high school state champion wrestler in Florida and 2x National Finalist college wrestler.-The Ultimate Fighter:Hill competed as a...
  
   vs.   Joe Veres
  Joe Veres
  Joe Veres is an American mixed martial artist who last fought for the UFC. He lost his last fight at UFC Fight Night 12 to Corey Hill on January 23, 2008. He wrestled for a high school in Cleveland,Ohio and placed sixth in the state his senior year. Veres was a three time academic All-American...
  
  

Hill defeated Veres via TKO (strikes) at 0:37 of round 2.

• Lightweight bout:   Cole Miller
  Cole Miller
  Jeremiah Cole Miller is an American mixed martial artist, currently competing in the lightweight division in the UFC. His nickname "Magrinho" means "skinny" in Portuguese....
  
   vs.   Jeremy Stephens
  Jeremy Stephens
  Jeremy Dean Stephens is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter from Des Moines, Iowa. Stephens is currently signed under the Ultimate Fighting Championship promotion, fighting in their lightweight division....
  
  

Stephens defeated Miller via TKO (strikes) at 4:44 of round 2.

• Lightweight bout:   Kurt Pellegrino
  Kurt Pellegrino
  Kurt Joseph Pellegrino is a retired American mixed martial artist. He is best known for competing in the lightweight division of the UFC. Pellegrino's first fight in the UFC came in 2006...
  
   vs.   Alberto Crane
  Alberto Crane
  Alberto Lewis Crane is an American mixed martial artist. He currently fights as a lightweight. He has fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and is a former King of the Cage and Ring Of Fire lightweight champion.-Biography:...
  
  

Pellegrino defeated Crane via TKO (punches) at 1:52 of round 2. This was the only preliminary bout aired during the broadcast.

• Lightweight bout:   Gray Maynard
  Gray Maynard
  Bradley Gray Maynard is an American amateur wrestler and mixed martial artist, who competes as a lightweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He has recorded one of the fastest knockouts in UFC history, at 9 seconds against Joe Veres. He is the only fighter to hold a win over current...
  
   vs.   Dennis Siver
  Dennis Siver
  Dennis D. Siver ; born January 13, 1979) is a Russian-German mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As of July 2011, Siver is ranked as the #8 lightweight fighter in the world by MMAWeekly...
  
  

Maynard defeated Siver via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 30–27).

Main card

• Lightweight bout:   Alvin Robinson
  Alvin Robinson
  Alvin L Robinson is an American professional mixed martial artist currently fighting as a lightweight for the Bellator Fighting Championships. He is a former Ring of Fire lightweight champion...
  
   vs.   Nate Diaz

Diaz defeated Robinson via submission (triangle choke) at 3:39 round 1.

• Lightweight bout:   Thiago Tavares
  Thiago Tavares
  Thiago de Mello Tavares is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He currently fights in the lightweight division in the UFC.-Ultimate Fighting Championship:Thiago Tavares entered the UFC with an undefeated record and was highly regarded...
  
   vs.   Michihiro Omigawa
  Michihiro Omigawa
  is a Japanese mixed martial artist and Judoka who trains out of Hidehiko Yoshida's dojo. He made it to the finals in the Sengoku Featherweight Grand Prix losing to Masanori Kanehara.-Mixed martial arts career:...
  
  

Tavares defeated Omigawa via unanimous decision (30–27, 29–28, 30–27).

• Middleweight bout:   Drew McFedries vs.   Patrick Côté
  Patrick Côté (fighter)
  Patrick Côté is a French-Canadian mixed martial artist. He currently fights as a middleweight, most recently in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and was the TKO Major League MMA middleweight champion...
  
  

Côté defeated McFedries via TKO (strikes) at 1:44 of round 1.

• Welterweight bout:   Mike Swick
  Mike Swick
  Mike Swick is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship as a welterweight....
  
   vs.   Josh Burkman
  Josh Burkman
  Joshua R. Burkman is an American mixed martial artist who is best known for his participation in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Before becoming a mixed martial artist, Burkman was an amateur wrestler. During his senior year of high school he finished second in his weight class at the state...
  
  

Swick defeated Burkman via majority decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–29).

Purses

The disclosed fighter payroll was $232,000. The individual payouts are listed below. They include the payment amounts for show and win, but do not include sponsor payments, fees, taxes, or special award bonuses.

• Mike Swick ($20,000) def. Josh Burkman ($10,000)
• Patrick Côté ($28,000) def. Drew McFedries ($10,000)
• Thiago Tavares ($18,000) def. Michihiro Omigawa ($5,000)
• Nate Diaz ($30,000) def. Alvin Robinson ($7,000)
• Kurt Pelligrino ($20,000) def. Alberto Crane ($4,000)
• Gray Maynard ($16,000) def. Dennis Siver ($7,000)
• Jeremy Stephens ($10,000) def. Cole Miller ($8,000)
• Corey Hill ($16,000) def. Joe Veres ($3,000)
• Matt Wiman ($16,000) def. Justin Buchholz ($4,000)