WEC 50 took place Aug. 18 at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.
The card featured the bantamweight title bout between champion Dominick Cruz and challenger Joseph Benavidez.
Ratings remained comparable to the smaller ZUFFA promotion’s most recent event, WEC 49, which drew an average audience of 324,000 viewers.
WEC 49 and 50...
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Miguel Torres looks great in a suit, and his pal Chael Sonnen loves to talk, so they’re a match made in heaven on this edition of MMA Live.
“I haven’t thought about it. You always plan for the worst, which in this case would be a 25-minute fight. That’s what I focus on. That’s the...
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And gents, for your information, that is not “The Stanky Leg,” but a venerable and multipurpose dance move known – back in the day – as The Peppermint Twist.
Torres is scheduled to get back on the horse and start his climb to the title once more against Charlie Valencia at WEC 51 on September...
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Former WEC bantamweight champ Miguel Torres looks to break a two-fight losing streak when he faces Charlie Valencia in the co-main event of WEC 51: Aldo vs. Gamburyan on September 30 in Broomfield, Colorado.
Torres, now 37-3, was on a 17-fight win streak which included with title defenses over Yoshiro Maeda, Manny Tapia, and Takeya...
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For one to become a master, he/she must go through certain trials and errors. The aspiring student will painfully do things routinely to fine craft and hone a certain skill all for the acceptance into the fraternity that masterhood…if masterhood is even a word. There have been masters throughout the annals of history that...
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Miguel Torres’ plastic surgery after WEC 47
And hey, Masood, the video is awesome, but it’s “grisly” not “grizzly.”
Unless you’re stitching up a bear…and not a fighter.
Main Entry: gris·ly
Pronunciation: \?griz-l?\
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): gris·li·er; gris·li·est
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English grislic, from gris- (akin to Old English ?gr?san to fear); akin to Old High German gr?senl?h...
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A picture is, as they say, worth a thousand words.
These photos were taken back stage before and after the fights at WEC 47: Bowles vs Cruz, and while they were probably taken for some sort of insurance purposes, they rise to the level of art when it comes to telling the tale of a...
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Joseph Benavidez earned $39,000 for his second-round guillotine win against former bantamweight champ Miguel Torres at WEC 47: Bowles vs. Cruz Saturday at the Nationwide Arena according to the Ohio State Athletic Commission.
Benavidez pulled in a $10,000 performance bonus for “Submission of the Night.”
Torres earned $26,000 for his second straight defeat in the...
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Yowch.
This cut, delivered to the head of Miguel Torres by Joseph Benavidez at their WEC 47 matchup, is going to take a while to heal. You’re not going to get away with some Super Glue to repair a cut like this.
Making a living in the cage can certainly leave some reminders of your worst...
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Sengoku 12
Tokyo, Ryogoku Kokugikan
SRC Middleweight Title match: Jorge Santiago vs. Mamed Khalidov
Heavyweights: Yoshihiro Nakao vs. Sentoryu (Henry Miller)
Welterweights: Akihiro Gono vs. Diego Gonzalez
Lightweights: Kiuma Kunioku vs. Leonardo Santos
Featherweights: Shigeki Osawa vs. Kyung Ho Kang
Featherweights: Yuji Hoshino vs. Nick Denis
Featherweights: Marlon Sandro vs. Tomonari Kanomata
Jorge Santiago vs. Mamed Khalidov
Full Results From Sengoku 12:
8. Jorge Santiago...
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