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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Torres Vs. Bowles



Leonard Garcia Vs. Jameel Massouh
Garcia coming off of a humiliating loss to to Mike Brown dropped Massouh with a hard right hand in the first, only to have Massouh recover and gain dominant position on the ground to finish the round off with some good ground and pound. Late into the second Massouh caught Garcia in a Darce choke and was close to finishing Garcia before he gave up his back and scrambled to his feet. The majority of the third stayed on the feet and the judges favor Garcia for the split decision win.

Jeff Curran Vs. Takeya Mizugaki
Curran immediately works for a take down, but Mizugaki's take down defense is outstanding and Curran is unable to get it to the ground. Instead it is Mizugaki who gets the takedown and works some ground and pound. Mizugaki controls the latter two rounds and survives a tight triangle choke to finish out the final round. Mizugaki gets the win via split decision in another very close fight.

Ricardo Lamas Vs. Danny Castillo
These two are great wrestlers and they keep the fight standing for the first round, trading combinations with Lamas using more of a variety of strikes. More of the same in the second round sees Lamas starting to gain a definitive advantage, but Castillo lands a bomb of a right hand that drops Lamas and pounces on him to get the TKO victory.

Joseph Benavidez Vs. Dominick Cruz
Cruz looks much bigger than Benavidez and uses his reach and size advantage to get mount on Benavidez, but Benavidez gives up his back and scrambles to his feet. In the second Cruz stuns Benavidez momentarily with straight punches as he comes in wildly. Cruz gets a takedown on Benavidez to finish the round. In the third Benavidez eats a hellacious leg kick followed by a clean takedown. Cruz gets Benavidez's back and flattens him out to finish out the round and cinch the unanimous decision win handing Benavidez his first professional loss.

Miguel Torres Vs. Brian Bowles

Miguel Torres takes on the undefeated Mini Mark Whalberg Brian Bowles in the five round main event. Torres's mullet looks like it means business as he enters the ring with the patten Torres scowl. Bowles drops Torres for a second with a big punch, and ends up in top position on the ground. Torres lands some good punches but comes in a bit reckless and gets dropped by a counter punch, on the ground Bowles lans hard shots and knocks Miguel out on his back to shock me and The Champ and take the title. Now we have a Bantamweight Champion who looks like a smaller, uglier version of Marky Mark.

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