WEC 47: Miguel Torres cut en route to second round submission loss (Pic)
by Jesse Holland on Mar 7, 2010 3:43 AM EST
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Joseph Benavidez sends the former 135-pound deity to his second consecutive loss in their bantamweight match-up at last night's WEC 47 event. Has the rest of the division finally caught up to him?
For "Bowles vs. Cruz" results and recap click here and here.
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Now can we please get his punk ass of the top 10 pound for pound lists?
by DBG on Mar 7, 2010 3:55 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Word
A burning passion from a burning mass reaches up for the sky
by Shoguns Hairy Forearms. on Mar 7, 2010 4:02 AM EST up reply actions
Wow. Look at all the haters in the house. I am not a Torres fan but you guys sound like women.
Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Only enemies speak the truth.
-Stephen King
it really wasn't...
Not really for or against Torres… I’m just sayin that wasn’t funny. Get out more.
Fedor played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won... but still avoids the UFC!
oswald youll be ok
as long as you werent in the women crowd
Open up the Shit Gates and God Bless Marv
I am sorry if I offended you, Oswald. I did not know that you were a woman.
Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Only enemies speak the truth.
-Stephen King
Wata' beatin''
Damn… never seen Torres get mauled like that in his guard.. and then to get tapped out . ..Yeah’’’ he has to be off everyones lb for lb list fer’ sure. Time to get rid of the mullet.. get a fresh start.
Mauled is right.
I think Benavidez was almost too small for Miguel to control in his guard. He looked like a little Tasmanian devil once he got on top.
by HappyLittleTreez on Mar 7, 2010 8:35 AM EST up reply actions
this fight was kinda primed for a potential upset...not in the way it happened but
because Torres sucks at wrestling and Joe just needed to win two of 3 rds with TDs and survive the third for a close decision. I thought of laying action but chickened out. The whole card was full of great upsets.
by NNR (formerly NameNotRequired) on Mar 7, 2010 12:03 PM EST up reply actions
lol Agreed
that hair has to go!
Fedor played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won... but still avoids the UFC!
Lose the mullet and get back to being torres…looked to me he was trying to mimick Machida but ended up with him just not pulling the trigger and being tentative
by irishlilpete on Mar 7, 2010 5:01 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
and its not even like they were close fights
he got desicively finished both times. lets see where he goes from here.
Did he tap from the choke or
from the sight of his own blood pouring out of his forehead?
definetly the choke, joseph had his one arm locked up with his legs also
it woulda been stoped due to the cut if he didnt tap to the guillotine tho
"do or do not, there is no trying"- yoda
That is what I thought...
You would think he had never been cut bad before in those almost 40 fights. He shut down the minute he saw all the blood. My wife who even s thought the same thing. There was a point right after he gets cut, he wipes the blood, looks at it, and straight up freezes and you could seee panic in his face, then got rolled and subed!
Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up they would pound each other behind the barn!"
Betting
Did anyone else’s betting provider not allow them to do a teaser? Would have taken Torres and Bowles……lol……thanks Sports Interaction
how do u tease a fight?
I parlayed torres/bowles and lost a ton.
I agree, and my wife said the same thing, Torres froze up at the sight of his own blood!
i lost on bowles and torres
Thank god pulver lost or I would have been 0-3. Torres needs to change it up a little and get loose, he’ll be back but maybe never LB for LB best again. Shitty “break” with the broken hand for bowles. He looked off the whole fight so that wasn’t surprising…
He’s going to throw a liver kick ~Bas~
by DrewMoney$$$ on Mar 7, 2010 2:25 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I hope he doesn't blame the loss on the cut.
Benavidez kicked his ass the whole fight. The only offense Torres had were those silly heel kicks to Benavidez’s butt cheeks.
Torres… victim of his own hype. Adios, amigo!
"Why am I here? Why does my mind have wings? Why do blue midgets hit me with fish?!" - The Tick
Torres
did not look like the same guy in this fight. He was handled by a much smaller guy. Either most of us were wrong about Torres, or that Bowles KO changed him. Either way, I was highly disappointed in the card last night.
Agreed
He looked too tentative. Alot of guys that get KO’d come back like that, but he definitely chose the wrong opponent to come back against. Torres’ strength was rushing his opponent and brawling. Last night showed that he might not be able to do that anymore. You’re not the only one disappointed in the card either. Just didn’t have that excitement to it, I guess. Good fighters, but it lacked excitement imo.
I'm Happy
I feel like Torres disrespected his camp after his last loss. He blamed them for not pushing him but he didn’t push himself. I’m glad he got dominated by someone that he thought he should have easily beat. Let him fade into the sunset because he will not beat Cruz, Damacio Page, Scott Jorgenson or Benavidez in a rematch.
So much for Torres fighting like Andy and Machida
He’s still a quality BW but isn’t even top 3 at this point, there can be no justification for him being top 10 P4P anymore. All those that called his first loss to Bowles a fluke can’t complain about this defeat either, the fact is that Miguel bought into his own hype and is now getting found out against superior fighters. He needs to change something drastically if he’s ever going to regain the BW title.
"Not a lot of professional sports down here (in Australia)"
"We just had our best season (of TUF) last season and it was season 10"
"Nogueira is probabaly the best HW of all time"
Dana White, proving that he's clueless about Australian sports, has never heard of Fedor and is still trying to hype up TUF 10.
Can't be the imitator
Tried to fight like Lyoto and got his ass handed to him, lol. Seemed like he was holding back in the fight and got beat.
Well...
His last fight he fought like himself and got his ass handed to him.
"Why am I here? Why does my mind have wings? Why do blue midgets hit me with fish?!" - The Tick
I like Torres as a fighter, but he has that typical Im an insecure kid with no sense of identity so I act like a tough guy rapper look in his eyes, and I loved seeing it smashed up and covered in blood, little punk.
People that fight for a living are tough. He does not need to fake it.
Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Only enemies speak the truth.
-Stephen King
by OJR on Mar 7, 2010 4:17 PM EST up reply actions
Tough guy rapper? Which Torres are you talking about?
How many Torres fights or interviews have you actually watched? Apparently… zero. Torres is a cool guy, respectful and humble. Who the hell are you talking about?
That's five in a row
Hate to say it but it’s time to face the music, and I’m a Pulver fan too :(
"Wanderlei Silva; hallowed be thy name." - Genesis 50:27
by O damn he got caught on Mar 8, 2010 8:50 AM EST reply actions
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