Cage Captions: Milestone UFC Events

50 – UFC 45 – Hughes vs Trigg – November 23, 2003
This show celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the UFC, and Royce Gracie and Ken Shamrock were inducted into the newly created UFC Hall of Fame. This event was one of just FOUR to feature Eddie Bravo as the post-fight interviewer.

This card featured the first of two dramatic bouts between Matt Hughes and Frank Trigg for the welterweight championship. Matt Lindland exacted revenge on Falaniko Vitale after knocking himself out while taking down Vitale just a few months prior at UFC 43. "Cabbage" Correira displayed his chin filled of "cement and stuff" against Tank Abbott, and Evan Tanner made Phil Baroni so angry he punched the referee twice after the fight was stopped.

100 – UFC 78 – Evans vs Bisping – November 17, 2007
This event was the FIRST to feature a bout between two Ultimate Fighter season winners. This card was actually set to clear up controversy as both Evans and Bisping were recently coming off controversial bouts, and both were going to rematch those opponents. As BOTH opponents fell off the card, Evans and Bisping were matched up as a result.

Hector Lombard was slated to join the UFC on this card against Karo Parisyan, but due to visa issues Lombard was not allowed to fight in the U.S. An enraged Lombard went on a 20-fight win streak stopping 16 of those opponents and picked up a Bellator title along the way following the scrapped matchup, before signing with the UFC almost five years later.

The main event featuring the undefeated Evans and Bisping resulted in Bisping being handed a close split decision loss. Thiago Silva put the brakes on the rising hype train of Houston Alexander with a first round TKO. Ed Herman won his third consecutive post-fight bonus with a crushing knockout of Joe Doerksen, and Frankie Edgar opened up the main card remaining unbeaten at 9-0 as he defeated Spencer Fisher.

150 – UFC 112 – Silva vs Maia – April 10, 2010
This event was the FIRST to take place outdoors, in an open arena in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Due to an extremely lackluster main event, UFC President Dana White promised to make it up to the fans by putting a "huge" fight on free television. Fans argue he never made up for this card or for UFC 149 as well.

The card was headlined by a disappointing and bizarre showing by Anderson Silva against Demian Maia, but in the co-main event, Frankie Edgar managed to dethrone B.J. Penn as the lightweight champion. Renzo Gracie attempted to avenge his cousin Royce Gracie's earlier loss to Matt Hughes, but was also TKOed by Hughes. The main card opened with a pair of second round finishes, as Rafael dos Anjos armbarred Terry Etim, and Mark Munoz clashed with Kendall Grove in a thrilling bout before Munoz won by TKO.

200 – UFC on FX 2 – Alves vs Kampmann – March 3, 2012
UFC on FX 2 introduced the flyweight division to the UFC with a four-man contender tournament, the last non-reality show tournament the UFC has held. In this tournament, if the fight was scored a draw, the commission would implement a "sudden victory" fourth round. Due to a mistake, the commission allowed a semifinal bout was scored as a draw and the fans were not "blessed with a fourth round."

In the main event of a brutal bout between Thiago Alves and Martin Kampmann, Alves shot for an ill-advised takedown in the third round and was choked out. Joseph Benavidez secured his spot in the finals of the flyweight tournament with a second round drubbing of Yasuhiro Urushitani. On the other side of the flyweight tournament bracket, Demetrious Johnson and Ian McCall fought to a contentious draw, and the two were forced to rematch three months later. After that draw, Johnson won his next 12 fights.

250 – UFC Fight Night 30 – Machida vs Munoz – October 26, 2013
After holding 10 events on Fuel TV before rebranding to Fox Sports 2, this event's main card was the ONLY main card to ever be broadcast in its entirety on the Fox Sports 2 channel.

This main event featured Lyoto Machida making his debut in the middleweight division in spectacular fashion, knocking out Mark Munoz with a head kick in the first round. Munoz became the first fighter in UFC history to lose two fights by head kick knockout. The much-lauded bout between Ross Pearson and Melvin Guillard ended in disappointment due to an early illegal knee, and Jimi Manuwa won his second straight fight by TKO due to injury over Ryan Jimmo.

300 – UFC 181 – Hendricks vs Lawler II – December 6, 2014
The UFC teamed up with DC Comics to create the poster for its event, creating one of the greatest posters in UFC history. UFC 181 also introduced the MMA world to former WWE champion Phillip "CM Punk" Brooks, a former pro wrestler with no amateur or professional combat sports experience, who announced his intention to fight for the UFC.

From top to bottom, this card was almost all action, from the electrifying Fight Pass featured prelim of Sergio Pettis vs Matt Hobar all the way to the main attraction rematch between Robbie Lawler and champion Johny Hendricks. Lawler and Hendricks battled for five hard rounds, and this time Lawler took the belt home by split decision. Anthony Pettis defended his lightweight belt for the first and only time against Gilbert Melendez, and Travis Browne and Todd Duffee picked up big first round knockouts over Brendan Schaub and Anthony Hamilton, respectively.

350 – UFC Fight Night 84 – Silva vs Bisping – February 27, 2016
This event tied UFC 169 and UFC Fight Night 36 for the most decisions at an event with 10. Prior to this main event on Fight Pass, Anderson Silva had appeared as the PPV headliner TWELVE straight times. Silva has headlined 16 PPV cards in his UFC career, tied with Tito Ortiz for the second-most all time, with both trailing Randy Couture with 18.

Michael Bisping and Anderson Silva engaged in a terrific battle for 25 minutes, with Bisping taking the first two rounds and dropping Silva in the second round with a three punch salvo. In the third round, Silva started picking up the pace and landing on Bisping, and in the last few seconds of the round, Bisping lost his mouthpiece and took his eyes off Silva. Silva immediately took advantage and threw a flying knee, dropping Bisping as the round ended, with many including Silva believing the fight to be over. Bisping, bloodied and still dazed, came back to win the fourth round and survive an onslaught from Silva in the fifth, taking a contentious decision win over the former middleweight champion.

400 – UFC Fight Night 110 – Lewis vs Hunt – June 11, 2017
The main event of this card will feature Mark Hunt in his first MMA fight in his home country of New Zealand, having only fought in front of his fellow countrymen once in a kickboxing bout against Peter Graham in 2001. Mark Hunt is currently embroiled in a lawsuit against the UFC for Brock Lesnar's failed drug test following UFC 200, and still elected to fight for the company because it was coming to his home country.

This card is just the second in UFC history to take place in New Zealand, with the UFC first going to the land of the kiwis in June 2014. Including this fight, in his 12 fight UFC career, Derrick Lewis has fought in a whopping 10 different cities across three continents.