Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Brisbane’s Second UFC Card
3. Quick Stats
4. Main Event: Hunt’s Walk-Off KO of Mir
5. Magny Finishes the Unfinishable Lombard
6. Full Results
7. Bonuses & Awards
8. Records & Milestones
9. Legacy & Impact
10. FAQ
Introduction
UFC Fight Night 85: Hunt vs. Mir took place on Sunday, March 20, 2016 local time (Saturday night US time, March 19) at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia — broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 to 1.15 million average viewers (1.29M peak, 766k prelims). The card drew 9,552 fans for a gate of $1,325,000 — the second UFC event held in Brisbane. The main event was a heavyweight bout between Mark Hunt and former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir.
Hunt’s right hand put Mir on the canvas at 3:01 of round one. Hunt walked away toward the neutral corner knowing the fight was over — a signature walk-off moment that instantly became one of the year’s most shared clips. Neil Magny TKO’d Hector Lombard in round three in the co-main — becoming the first fighter to finish Lombard inside the UFC across his 15-fight UFC career. Jake Matthews and Johnny Case earned Fight of the Night for a spirited lightweight welterweight submission fight. Mir was later found to have tested positive for testosterone metabolites, with his Brisbane result also overturned to a No Contest.
Brisbane’s Second UFC Card
Brisbane had previously hosted UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Sonnen in March 2013 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. The 2016 Brisbane return used the larger Brisbane Entertainment Centre — a 13,000-capacity venue — and drew 9,552 fans for a $1.325M gate. The card’s Australian construction featured domestic fighters in multiple positions: Bec Rawlings and Jake Matthews had Australian followings; the Dan Hooker LW fight brought New Zealand representation; and the Steve Bossé vs. James Te Huna fight was a Pacific rivalry bout.
Mark Hunt was the card’s natural crowd centrepiece: born in New Zealand but building his Australian fanbase since his South Pacific upbringing, he remained one of the most beloved fighters in the Oceanian UFC market. Frank Mir’s declining record made the fight a competitive but commercially accessible booking for the Brisbane debut main event. A heavyweight main event between two fan favourites with knockout power was both commercially straightforward and stylistically appropriate for an Australian audience with a bias toward finish-heavy performances.
Quick Stats
📅 Date: Sunday, March 20, 2016 local time (Saturday March 19, US time)
📍 Venue: Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (2nd UFC event in Brisbane)
👥 Attendance: 9,552
💰 Gate: $1,325,000
📺 Broadcast: Fox Sports 1 — 1.15M avg. viewers (1.29M peak, 766k FS1 prelims)
🏆 Main Event: Mark Hunt vs. Frank Mir — Heavyweight (Hunt 9th ranked; Mir former 2-time UFC HW champion)
✅ Result: Hunt def. Mir via KO (right punch) — R1, 3:01 (PoN $50k; walk-off KO; BOTH overturned later after Mir’s positive drug test)
Main Event: Hunt’s Walk-Off KO of Mir
Frank Mir’s UFC career was in a challenging phase by March 2016. He had gone 2-4 in his last six fights and was 36 years old. His submission skills remained world-class but his defensive positioning against elite strikers had deteriorated. Mark Hunt’s power in his right hand was the single most dangerous individual weapon in the heavyweight division at that point in the cycle. The fight plan for both men was simple: Hunt needed to land his right hand; Mir needed to either close the distance safely for the clinch or find a takedown.
Hunt landed his right hand at 3:01. Mir went down heavily. Hunt looked at Mir on the canvas, assessed that the fight was over, and walked away without throwing additional strikes — a walk-off that referee Leon Roberts confirmed immediately by waving the fight off. The clean single-punch KO was one of Hunt’s most aesthetically complete finishes: no follow-up ground strikes, no uncertainty about the stoppage quality. The walk-off became the clip’s defining image. Subsequent events — Mir’s positive drug test for testosterone metabolites and the result’s conversion to a No Contest — complicated the clean narrative but did not diminish Hunt’s technical execution.
Magny Finishes the Unfinishable Lombard
Hector Lombard entered the Magny fight with a professional record that included zero losses by TKO or KO across 15 UFC fights. His durability was a documented statistical reality — a fighter with enormous natural physical power and a chin capable of absorbing significant punishment. Neil Magny’s submission of him was not expected. In round one, Lombard rocked Magny with a hard right hand that appeared to nearly end the fight. Magny survived the first round.
Magny’s recovery in rounds two and three was methodical. He accumulated striking advantage, worked his wrestling game to control positions, and in round three at 0:46, rained down punches until the stoppage came. The finish — a TKO, not a submission — was nonetheless the first-ever stoppage of Lombard via any method in his UFC career. Magny had survived Lombard’s best shot in round one and returned a finish. Performance of the Night. Dan Hooker’s guillotine choke of Mark Eddiva in round one on the prelims was an efficient early career win for the New Zealander.
Full Results
Main Card (Fox Sports 1)
Mark Hunt def. Frank Mir — KO (right punch) — R1, 3:01 — Heavyweight (PoN $50k; walk-off KO; RESULT OVERTURNED to NC after Mir’s positive testosterone test)
Neil Magny def. Hector Lombard — TKO (punches) — R3, 0:46 — Welterweight (PoN $50k; FIRST fighter ever to finish Lombard in the UFC across 15 fights; Magny survived R1 knockdown)
Jake Matthews def. Johnny Case — Submission (RNC) — R3, 4:45 — Lightweight (FotN $50k each; Matthews Australian fighting at home)
Daniel Kelly def. Antônio Carlos Jr. — TKO (punches) — R3, 1:36 — Middleweight (Kelly Australian; wins at home in Brisbane)
Steve Bossé def. James Te Huna — KO — R1, 0:52 — Heavyweight (Bossé had been brutally KO’d by Te Huna in 2014; revenge finish)
Bec Rawlings def. Seo Hee Ham — Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28) — Women’s SBW (Rawlings Australian; wins at home)
Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1 / UFC Fight Pass)
Alan Jouban def. Brendan O’Reilly — TKO (elbows and punches) — R1, 2:15 — Welterweight
Dan Hooker def. Mark Eddiva — Submission (guillotine) — R1, 1:24 — Featherweight (Hooker early career)
Leslie Smith def. [opponent] — Bantamweight
Viscardi Andrade def. Richard Walsh — UD — Welterweight (RESULT OVERTURNED to NC after Andrade’s stanozolol positive; 2-year suspension)
Ross Pearson def. Chad Laprise — Lightweight
Bonuses & Awards
🥇 Fight of the Night: Jake Matthews + Johnny Case — $50,000 each
🥇 Performance of the Night: Mark Hunt + Neil Magny — $50,000 each
Records & Milestones
• Neil Magny became the first fighter to finish Hector Lombard via any method in Lombard’s 15-fight UFC career.
• Two results overturned: Mir (testosterone metabolites; NC) and Andrade (stanozolol; NC) were both discovered after the event.
• Mark Hunt’s walk-off KO of Mir — one of the most iconic individual single-punch KO sequences in 2016 UFC history.
Legacy & Impact
Hunt’s Brisbane walk-off KO became one of his career’s signature moments — a clean single-punch finish of a former two-time champion with the restraint and confidence to walk away rather than continue striking. His subsequent fights against Brock Lesnar (July 2016), Alistair Overeem (September 2016), and Derrick Lewis (June 2017) continued his status as one of the most commercially significant heavyweight fights on any card. Magny’s Lombard finish moved him into the top-ten welterweight discussion and produced a title eliminator booking against Tarec Saffiedine.
Frank Mir’s Brisbane positive test was the final chapter of his UFC career. He was released following the suspension and tested positive for testosterone metabolites from a sample taken near the fight date. Dan Hooker’s guillotine finish on the prelims was an early Brisbane step of a lightweight career that made him a top-five UFC LW by 2020. Steve Bossé’s 52-second revenge KO of Te Huna was one of the rare cases in MMA where a fighter who had been dramatically stopped in a previous encounter secured a quick return finish of the same opponent.
FAQ
What was distinctive about Hunt’s walk-off?
The technical distinction of Hunt’s Brisbane walk-off was his immediate assessment that Mir was not going to recover from the right hand’s impact. Mir went down face-forward and did not move in a way that suggested defensive recovery capacity. Hunt’s experience with knockout power — both delivering and receiving significant strikes in his career — gave him an immediate read that the fight was over. The restraint in not continuing to strike was both instinctive and sportsmanship-reflective: a fighter who knew with certainty that the finish was complete and chose not to add unnecessary punishment.
How had Lombard maintained his unfinished record before Magny?
Lombard’s durability across 15 UFC fights reflected his genuine physical toughness — a former Olympic judoka who had built exceptional bodily resilience through years of elite-level grappling. His chin was tested repeatedly in the UFC against elite strikers, including in fights where he was hurt. His ability to absorb punishment and reset was one of the division’s more documented physical qualities. Magny’s finish was notable because it came via ground-and-pound rather than a single-punch KO — accumulated cumulative damage rather than one definitive strike.
What happened with Frank Mir’s drug test?
Mir’s sample taken near the Brisbane fight date returned a positive result for testosterone metabolites, indicating the presence of exogenous testosterone. USADA announced the positive test in the weeks following the event. Mir’s Brisbane result was overturned to a No Contest; his UFC contract was not renewed. He subsequently served his USADA ban. The Brisbane fight was his last UFC appearance. Mir publicly acknowledged the result and served the required suspension. His later career moved to other promotions.
How did Steve Bossé’s fight with Te Huna reverse their previous encounter?
Te Huna had knocked Bossé out in a dramatic UFC 181 bout in December 2014 — a brutally one-sided finish that ended quickly. Bossé’s Brisbane R1 KO of Te Huna in 52 seconds reversed the result in similar fashion: a quick stoppage, a clean knockout, no extended damage required. Revenge fights in MMA are common scheduling elements; Brisbane delivered an unusually symmetrical reversal, with the initially dominated fighter securing the faster finish in the rematch.
Where was Dan Hooker in his career at this point?
Hooker was an early-career UFC featherweight at the time of his Brisbane guillotine finish. He was fighting in Australia, near his New Zealand home. His subsequent UFC FW and LW career produced some of the most technically entertaining fights in the lightweight division from 2018 to 2021. His Brisbane fight was a preliminary card result that retrospectively marks the beginning of the fighting style — patient, submission-capable, striking-heavy — that defined his later career.
Was Viscardi Andrade’s drug test related to the Mir test?
The two drug tests were independent but both announced in the same post-event period. Andrade’s sample tested positive for stanozolol — an anabolic steroid — from an out-of-competition sample collected on March 7, before the Brisbane event. His UD win over Richard Walsh was overturned to a No Contest; he received a two-year USADA suspension. Mir’s positive was from a sample collected around the fight date. The two cases were unrelated in substance and athlete but coincidentally announced from the same event.