WEC 47: Bowles vs. Cruz

[mysterydriver]

Now underway on Versus.

Main Card
Bantamweight Championship bout: Brian Bowles vs. Dominick Cruz

Bantamweight bout: Miguel Torres vs. Joseph Benavidez

Featherweight bout: Jens Pulver vs. Javier Vazquez

Featherweight bout: Deividas Taurosevièius vs. LC Davis

Lightweight bout: Bart Palaszewski vs. Karen Darabedyan

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Palaszewski wins the first fight with an armbar submission in the last 30 seconds of Round 1. He was able to survive some early ground and pound before latching on to the arm for the victory.

[NIXON]

Very solid show as always from WEC. Torres looked bad! He might be done for. He looked so timid and tentative. I don't think he has recovered from getting ko'd by Bowles. He looked like a completely different fighter tonight. As did Bowles for that matter. He got annihilated. That broken hand thing wreaked of BS to me...he was getting worked and he wanted the hell outta there. Entertaining show though. WEC always puts on a very solid show and anyone who hasn't seen it should definitely give a look.

[repomanfan]

I don't think Bowles was lying about his hand being broken, but he sure as heck didn't want anymore of the feints, angles and movement that Cruz was throwing at him, so he packed it in, and blamed everything on the hand. Even with a good hand, Bowles was simply not prepared for anything, that Cruz was dishing out last night.

Where are the people.....I thought we had MMA fans on this board?

[NIXON]

Yeah, I agree. I believe he injured his hand. I just don't think thats why he bailed. Had he not been getting peppered so badly, he would've stayed in it. Urijah Faber broke both his hands against Mike Brown, so he started throwing forearms. I find it hard to believe that Bowles couldn't have gone on with one busted mitt had he not been getting smacked around so badly.