WEC 34 thread!

[Noise]

WEC Featherweight Championship: Urijah Faber vs. Jens Pulver
WEC Bantamweight Championship: Miguel Torres vs. Yoshiro Maeda
Chuck Grigsby vs. Mark Munoz
Kenneth Alexander vs. Rob McCullough
Chase Beebe vs. Will Ribeiro
Donald Cerrone vs. Rich Crunkilton
Mike Brown vs. Jeff Curran
Tim McKenzie vs. Eric Schambari
Luis Sapo vs. Alex Serdyukov
Jose Aldo vs. Alexandre Nogueira
Dominick Cruz vs. Charlie Valencia

Probably the biggest featherweight matchup ever on free TV. Gotta love it.

Mhm.

[Scrazy129]

I see Faber winning over Pulver as his last big task to prove that there is nothing left for him at 145. I'd like to see Torres against Faber once this is all over.

[Austin.]

DID YOU SAY FREE????
I thought you had to pay for this.

I see Jens beating Faber.

[convict00187]

all WEC events are free on the Vs. network these days.

And given the size/weight difference, I doubt we'll see Faber/Torres any time soon. This will probably never happen either, but if Faber ever got to fight "Kid" Yamamoto that would be the best fight you could make right now in these lower weight divisions. And on that thought, Kid often fights at 135 too, so him vs. Miguel would be badass as well. But...it's all just wishful thinking.

[Noise]

:bump:

Tomorrow. Versus. 9PM ET.

Be there, or... well, stay out my thread.

[storm4]

Unfortuately, I don't get Vs. Channel. However, I am pulling hard for a Jens Pulver victory.

[Luceid]

i haven't really seen much of WEC before this week/weekend. i caught quite a bit on Vs. after what i saw, i think faber will take this one.

[Austin.]

Oh my GAWD.
Torres and the other guy (I feel like a complete sorry-ass for not knowing his name) had a HUGE war. Double heel hooks, Stiff right hands, Closed eyes.
That was CRAZY.

Cmon Jens, please beat Faber.

EDIT:
WOW!!!!!!!!
What a WAR between Faber and Pulver as well.


I will post more thoughts later, I gotta go see the official victor.

[Noise]

Yeah. I wanted Jens to win, but in all honesty, coming into this fight I expected Faber to finish Jens before the 4th round. But f*ck. Neither one of them could've impressed me more in that fight.

Torres vs. Maeda went pretty much as I expected, only better.

I was pretty disappointed with the 2 other fights, and it was pretty lame how none of the undercard fights were aired, especially with some bigger names appearing there in Beebe, Curran, Valencia, etc.

Overall, though, the two title fights made it well worth watching.

[Ctp]

Curran and Beebe both losing surprised the hell out of me. The torres/maeda fight getting stopped because of maeda's eye sucked. Torres showed a lot of good striking skill though, I didn't think he could stand and swing it out with such an unusual styled and highly skilled striker as maeda but he was definitely holding his own just sitting back and sniping in and comboing out nicely in the flurry exchanges instead of just covering up and weathering it out. I think Maeda's orbit might have been shattered, his eye looked awful. :( I definitely look forward to this one as a rematch though, I heard they were already trying to set it up.

The Mcullough fight coming out as a split decision was pretty surprising. One of the judges was apparently blind or something. The Cruz fight going all the way to the decision was pretty weird too, I definitely wouldn't have called that. Valencia has no way to win a fight on his feet and Cruz would be completely outclassed on the ground. I was definitely expecting an early kockout or tko.

Grigsby getting knocked out wasn't something I expected to see either. From the little I've sen of him/heard about him he has an iron jaw. Plus he had a huge reach advantage he must have been at least half a foot taller than the guy he was fighting.

The Faber/Pulver fight wasn't as good as everyone has been saying it was. It was pretty clear from the third round on that Faber was going to win the fight. Pulver was just utterly exhausted in the fourth and was trying to rest with Faber on top of him, that's not someone you can rest against and that's definitely the round where he got his 8s from 2 of the judges. The first 2 and a half rounds or so were great with some big exchanges and shifts in the momentum with both guys taking some huge hits. Pulver definitely proved he has the ability to take some hits in this fight though. He took a rediculous amount of short elbows off of Faber when he was on his back. Overall I'm fairly happy and surprised with Pulver. I was hoping to see Faber win in a more definite way, at least it was decisive though.

This show was deinitely worth the money. Especially as I was down in cali anyway. :)

[Dean]

URIJAH FABER F*CKING RULES.

Man, what a beast. That fight was one of the best I've seen in a while. What a pace!

Pulver took so much punishment, too. Crazy.