Last night, the WEC held another star studded card with three champions defending their respective titles. Unlike many of the upsets that have occurred in MMA this year, this time the favourites all pulled through and retained their titles. Here are the results from the show:
- Urijah Faber defeated Jeff Curran via Submission (Guillotine Choke) at 4.34 of R2
- Paul Filho defeated Chael Sonnen via Submission (Arm Bar) at 4.55 of R2
- Jens Pulver defeated Cub Swanson via Submission (Anaconda Choke) at 0.35 of R1
- John Alessio defeated Todd Moore via Decision (Unanimous) at 5.00 of R3
- Charles Valencia defeated Ian McCall via Submission (Guillotine Choke) at 3.19 of R1
- Brian Bowles defeated Marcos Galvao via TKO(Strikes) at 2.09 of R2
- Ed Ratcliff defeated Alex Karalexis via TKO(Strikes) at 1.26 of R2
- Bryan Baker defeated Eric Schambari via Decision (Split) at 5.00 of R3
- Doug Marshall defeated Ariel Gandulla via Submission (Arm Bar) at 0.55 of R1
It was interesting to note that Zuffa, who owns both the UFC and the WEC had both brands go head to head on TV last night. While the WEC card was airing on Versus, Spike Tv was broadcasting another great episode of UFC Unleashed with notable fights like Anderson Silva vs Nate Marquardt and Tyson Griffen vs Frank Edgar. I guess that’s what happens when you get two of your brands on two different stations who are both trying to win over the every popular 18-34 demographic.
More MMA News
- David Heath vs. Tomasz Drwal has been added to the UFC 81 card which features Brock Lesnar vs Frank Mir, Tyson Griffin, Tim Sylvia and the return of Riccardo Almeida
- Fedor vs Choi was officially announced yesterday in Japan. Not sure what’s up with Fedor but he is seriously hurting his legacy as one of the greatest fighters of all times. This fight is a joke and I’m not laughing.
- Scott “Hands Of Steel” Smith Joins EliteXC - another former UFC fighter scooped up by another organization. Truth be told, I believe Smith has reached his peak and may not do much better that what he has already done in the past.
- Canadian Chris ‘The Polish Hammer’ Horodecki has a new opponent for his upcoming IFL lightweight title bout. His original opponent Shad Lierly has had to pull out the bout due to injury and will be replaced by John Gunderson. I’m looking at having Horodecki as a guest on ‘The Showdown’ for the Dec 28th show so make sure you tune in as I’ll ask him all about this bout and his rise to prominence in the the lightweight rankings at such a young age.
‘The Showdown’ MMA Radio Hour
Tonight on ‘The Showdown’, I go ‘One on One’ with former UFC veteran and current 145 lbs WEC featherweight contender, Mark ‘The Machine’ Hominick.
The Canadian phenom talks about the UFC, WEC, his next bout in the TKO organization as well as his thoughts on fighting for the UFC in Canada (scheduled for April 19th, 2008).
It all goes down at 10pm, on Toronto’s Sports Radio, The Fan 590.
If you missed last week show, new ROF LHW Champion Rob ‘Maximus’ MacDonald joined me on the air for the majority of the show. Rob talked TUF Finale and helped address questions and comments from the callers.
Also on last week’s show we heard from Roger Huerta, Clay Guida, Mac Danzig and Tommy Speer.
Here’s a link to the show: December 06th , 2007 - ‘The Showdown’ featuring Rob MacDonald, Huerta, Guida, Danzig and Speers and Open Phone Lines
Ciao for now,
Showdown Joe Ferraro
