UFC Fight Night 58: Machida vs. Dollaway | Event Profile, Full Results & Legacy
- Roe Jogan
- May 19
- 8 min read
Table of Contents
Introduction
UFC Fight Night 58: Machida vs. Dollaway took place on Saturday, December 20, 2014 at the Ginásio José Corrêa in Barueri, São Paulo, Brazil — broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 to 966,000 average viewers (1.24M peak), attended by a sold-out crowd. It was the second UFC event in Barueri following UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Shields in October 2013, and it was the final UFC event of 2014. The UFC had opened the year in Singapore and closed it in Brazil — a 58-event calendar year that set records for event volume.
Lyoto Machida KO’d C.B. Dollaway with a body kick at 1:02 of round one — the fastest finish of his professional career. Dollaway became only the sixth fighter in UFC history to land zero strikes in a main event, and his performance was the 100th in UFC history to record zero strikes landed. No Fight of the Night was awarded — the UFC issued four Performance of the Night bonuses to Machida, Renan Barão, Erick Silva, and Vitor Miranda. During the main card broadcast, it was announced that former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson had signed a new contract to return to the UFC.
Closing Out 2014: The Final UFC Event of the Year
2014 had been the UFC’s most expansive year in terms of event volume: 58 numbered Fight Night events plus multiple UFC-numbered PPVs, six international double-header days, new markets in Halifax, Uberlandiá, Bangor, Austin, and others. The year featured 47 Performance of the Night bonuses, multiple record-setting attendances for international Fight Pass events, and several all-time career milestones — from McGregor’s Dublin debut to Rockhold’s Sydney guillotine, Hunt’s Saitama uppercut to Edgar’s 4-second submission. Barueri’s December 20 card was a fitting coda: clean, finish-heavy, Brazilian-crowd-pleasing.
Barueri is a western São Paulo suburb that had proven itself as a productive UFC market with its 2013 event. The Ginásio José Corrêa is an indoor venue that created an intense, close-quarters atmosphere for combat sport events — the crowd noise generated on fight night was consistently one of the highest of any Brazilian Fight Night venue. The card’s construction — headlined by two Brazilian legends (Machida and Barão), supported by Erick Silva and Vitor Miranda — was designed to maximise home-market satisfaction. Brazilians went 8-3 against foreign opposition on the night.
Quick Stats
📅 Date: Saturday, December 20, 2014 (final UFC event of 2014)
📍 Venue: Ginásio José Corrêa, Barueri, São Paulo, Brazil (2nd UFC event in Barueri)
📺 Broadcast: Fox Sports 1 — 966,000 avg. viewers (1.24M peak, 626k prelims)
🏆 Main Event: Lyoto Machida vs. C.B. Dollaway — Middleweight (5 rounds)
✅ Result: Machida def. Dollaway via KO (body kick and punches) — R1, 1:02 (PoN $50k; fastest finish of Machida’s career; Dollaway landed ZERO strikes)
Main Event: Machida’s 62-Second Body Kick KO
C.B. Dollaway was a competent UFC veteran and TUF 7 runner-up who had gone 9-5 in the organisation. He had recently moved to the Karate Clubhouse team with training partners including Machida’s stablemates, which generated a narrative of preparedness. The reality was one-sided from the opening bell. Machida, fighting at home in Brazil before a crowd that treated him as a national hero, landed the body kick that doubled Dollaway over in 62 seconds. He followed with punches that forced the referee to intervene before Dollaway could recover. It was the fastest finish of Machida’s professional career — exceeding his previous quickest stoppages and removing all ambiguity about his competitiveness at middleweight.
Dollaway’s performance generated a unique statistical footnote: he landed zero strikes across the entire 62-second fight. He became the sixth fighter in UFC history to land zero strikes in a main event, and his performance was specifically the 100th time in UFC history that a fighter had been recorded with zero strikes landed in a bout. The statistic reflected how completely Machida had negated his entry attempts — Dollaway could not establish range, could not close distance, and could not create any meaningful offensive action before the finish. Machida became the first fighter in UFC history to absorb zero strikes in two different main events.
Rampage Jackson’s Return Announced
During the Fox Sports 1 main card broadcast of Fight Night 58, UFC president Dana White announced that Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson had signed a new deal to return to the UFC after a period with the rival promotion Bellator MMA. Jackson, a former UFC light heavyweight champion who defeated Chuck Liddell for the title at UFC 71 in May 2007, had left the UFC in 2013 after a contentious exit over the UFC’s compensation structure. His Bellator run had been commercially and competitively mixed. The announcement that he was returning generated significant response among the fight audience watching the Barueri broadcast.
Jackson’s return was one of the highest-profile free agent signings in UFC history at that point. His fights against Dan Henderson, Chuck Liddell, and Wanderlei Silva in PRIDE and the UFC had been some of the most commercially successful bouts in the sport’s history. His return to the UFC in 2015 was met with significant anticipation. He went on to fight until 2017 before his final retirement.
Full Results
Main Card (Fox Sports 1)
Lyoto Machida def. C.B. Dollaway — KO (body kick and punches) — R1, 1:02 — Middleweight (PoN $50k; fastest finish of career; Dollaway landed ZERO strikes)
Renan Barão def. Mitch Gagnon — Submission — Bantamweight (PoN $50k; Barão rebuilding after Dillashaw KO title loss)
Patrick Cummins def. Antônio Carlos Jr. — Light Heavyweight (Cummins 3rd straight win; dominant wrestling)
Rashid Magomedov def. Elias Silvério — TKO — R3 — Lightweight (Silvério was 11-0 entering; Magomedov’s comeback from a second-round knockdown)
Erick Silva def. Mike Rhodes — Submission — Welterweight (PoN $50k; lightning fast)
Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 2 / UFC Fight Pass)
Daniel Sarafian def. Antônio dos Santos Jr. — Middleweight (dos Santos was a late replacement for Dan Miller)
Marcos Rogério de Lima def. Igor Pokrajac — Light Heavyweight
Tim Means def. Marcio Alexandre Jr. — Welterweight
Vitor Miranda def. Jake Collier — TKO (last-second stoppage) — Light Heavyweight (PoN $50k; dramatic finish at end of fight)
Renato Moicano def. Hacran Dias — Split Decision — Featherweight (Moicano’s UFC debut; future top-15 LW)
Darren Elkins def. Leandro Issa — Featherweight
Yuta Sasaki def. Tom Niinimäki — Flyweight (Niinimäki was a late replacement for Rony Jason)
Bonuses & Awards
Note: No Fight of the Night was awarded — all four bonuses were Performance of the Night.
🥇 Performance of the Night: Lyoto Machida, Renan Barão, Erick Silva, Vitor Miranda — $50,000 each
Records & Milestones
• Machida’s 62-second KO of Dollaway — the fastest finish of his professional career.
• Dollaway landed zero strikes — the 100th UFC performance in history with zero strikes landed. Tied for 6th in the all-time list of fighters to land zero strikes in a main event.
• Machida became the first fighter in UFC history to absorb zero strikes in two different main events.
• Fight Night 58 was the final UFC event of 2014 — the most event-dense year in UFC history at that point with 58+ numbered events.
Legacy & Impact
Machida’s Barueri performance — his sixth UFC career knockout, achieved with his trademark body kick against a well-prepared opponent in under a minute — maintained his position as the UFC’s most technically accomplished middleweight counter-striker. He had moved to middleweight in October 2013 after a difficult late-career light heavyweight run and had gone 3-1 in the division by the end of 2014. His 2014 finishes — Dollaway and Mark Munoz earlier in the year — represented the best period of his middleweight tenure. He would go on to fight for the UFC middleweight title against Luke Rockhold in May 2015.
Renato Moicano’s debut win over Hacran Dias launched a UFC featherweight and eventual lightweight career that produced memorable finishes against Calvin Kattar, Donald Cerrone, and Drew Dober. He campaigned at both FW and LW, eventually peaking at #7 in the UFC lightweight rankings by 2023. The Rampage Jackson return announcement — made live on the Barueri broadcast — was one of the year’s more unexpected news moments; Jackson fought three more times in his second UFC stint before final retirement.
FAQ
How was Machida’s body kick KO executed?
Machida’s body kick technique is one of MMA’s most studied set-up patterns. His karate base prioritises centre-line control and unpredictable entry — he angles in from positions that make defenders uncertain whether the attack will go high, middle, or to the body. Against Dollaway, Machida closed the distance with his signature shuffle, landed a body kick that drove into Dollaway’s liver region, and immediately followed with ground punches as Dollaway doubled over and could no longer defend. The sequence was 62 seconds from the opening bell. The body kick itself was the pivotal strike — the ground punches were confirmation rather than the finishing blow.
What does it mean to land zero strikes in a UFC fight?
In UFC CompuStrike and FightMetric tracking, every landed strike is recorded: punches, kicks, elbows, and knees, separated into significant and total counts. A fight ending in zero significant strikes and zero total strikes for one fighter means that fighter could not land a single countable attack before the contest ended. In Dollaway’s case, his 62-second fight never reached the point where he could establish distance, create an entry, or land any offensive action. The statistic reflects how completely Machida’s positional control and timing negated his opponent. Dollaway was the 100th instance of this outcome in UFC tracking history.
Why did Rampage Jackson leave and then return to the UFC?
Quinton Jackson’s original UFC departure in 2013 was contentious. He had publicly complained about UFC pay structures and the promotion’s contractual terms. He signed with Bellator MMA, where the terms were apparently more favourable, competing in 2013. His Bellator run was not the commercial success either side had hoped for. By late 2014, the UFC had evidently reached a deal with Jackson that addressed his compensation concerns. The Barueri broadcast announcement signalled a reconciliation between fighter and promotion. Jackson’s second UFC stint (2015–2017) produced three fights before his retirement from the sport.
How did Renan Barão’s career sit at the time of his Barueri win?
Barão had been the UFC interim bantamweight champion and then unified champion from 2012 to 2014, defeating Eddie Wineland, Urijah Faber, Scott Jorgensen, and Michael McDonald during his championship run. He lost the title to TJ Dillashaw at UFC 173 in May 2014 by KO — a comprehensive defeat that ended his 35-fight unbeaten streak — and then missed weight for his immediate rematch at UFC 177. His Barueri submission win over Mitch Gagnon was the first step in rebuilding his title contender case. He went on to fight Dillashaw in a rematch at UFC on Fox 15 in January 2015, losing by KO again.
What happened to Renato Moicano after his UFC debut in Barueri?
Moicano (Renato Carneiro) debuted at featherweight and went 5-1 in the division before moving to lightweight. At FW, his most significant win was a TKO of Calvin Kattar in 2018. At LW, he produced notable wins over Anthony Pettis, Paul Felder, and Rafael dos Anjos, peaking at #7 in the rankings by 2023. He remained one of the most technically sound Brazilian submission fighters of his generation. The Barueri debut victory over Dias was the first step of a career that made him a perennial top-15 fighter across two weight classes.
What was Machida’s overall record at middleweight by the end of 2014?
Machida had moved from light heavyweight to middleweight in October 2013 after losses to Jon Jones and Phil Davis suggested he had reached his ceiling at 205 lbs. His MW record entering 2015 was 3-1: wins over Mark Munoz (2013), Gegard Mousasi (2014), and C.B. Dollaway (2014), with a loss to Luke Rockhold at UFC 172 in April 2014. The Dollaway win restored his momentum after the Rockhold loss. He received a UFC middleweight title shot against Rockhold in May 2015 but lost by submission in round one. The Barueri body kick KO is remembered as his highest-quality MW performance: precise, dominant, and completed in the fastest time of his career.
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