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WEC51: Aldo Rolls and Cerrone Takes Down Varner
Jose Aldo showed why many people around the sport were mentioning him in pound for pound debates worldwide leading up to WEC 51 Thursday night in Broomfield, CO.
Jose Aldo used punishing leg kicks and precision yet economical punching to put away the outclassed Manny Gamburyan in round two. Gamburyan never got a chance to turn it into a battle of wills and attrition although he did land a good right hand at the beginning of the fight that got the attention of the crowd. Gamburyan was chiseled but the difference in timing, technique, and quickness was apparent early and Aldo proved to just be too good.
One wonders what’s left for Aldo in the WEC’s 145 lb featherweight division after essentially cleaning it out and if he shouldn’t schedule a couple trips to the Golden Corral buffet to see what kind of challenges a fight at 155 lbs would present him.
In the best fight of the night and a legitimate hate fest, Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone showed vastly improved wrestling skills in a three domination of Jamie Varner. Both fighters brought very genuine dislike for each other into the cage and it showed at various points during the before, during, and after the fight. Varner refused to look at the sneering Cerrone while the referee offered the preflight instructions and neither fighter showed any desire to touch the other’s gloves.
At one point Cerrone called Varner a familiar but slang portion of the female anatomy after Varner’s mouthpiece came out in the middle of the round. Not wanting to skip bringing ill will to any part of the fight, Varner gave Cerrone a half-hearted shove after Cerrone punched Varner’s congratulatory open hand at the conclusion of the fight.
This was your classic muay thai/jiu jitsu athlete versus the boxer/wrestler and while Varner’s hands looked good he ate quite a few leg kicks was taken down almost with ease by a guy not known at all for his takedowns or wrestling. A third fight seems likely after both agreed during the post fight interviews that it was the right fight for both.
Miguel Angel Torres got back to his winning ways against longtime WEC plugger Charlie Valencia showing the skill and intensity that made Torres a champion in the past with a second round rear naked choke.
In a way, life imitated art as George Roop made Chan Jung Sung do his best living dead impression after a left skip kick KO’d the “Korean Zombie”. George Romero himself couldn’t have choreographed a more realistic image of a zombie taking a headshot as Sung was out before he hit the canvas.
Mark Hominick won a razor thin split decision over Leonard “Bad Boy” Garcia in a good but not great fight that had been highly anticipated since it‘s announcement. Hominick showed his typical discipline and textbook down the pipe punching while the larger Garcia stayed true to his style by swinging wildly most of the fight.
MAIN CARD
Jose Aldo def. Manny Gamburyan via knockout (strikes)
Donald Cerrone def. Jamie Varner via unanimous decision
Miguel Torres def. Charlie Valencia via submission (rear-naked choke)
George Roop def. Chan Sung Jung via KO (head kick)
Mark Hominick def. Leonard Garcia via split decision
PRELIMINARY CARD
Tiequan Zhang def. Pablo Garza via submission
Mike Brown def. Cole Province via TKO
Chris Horodecki def. Ed Ratciff via split decision
Diego Nunes def. Tyler Toner via unanimous decision
Antonio Banuelos def. Chad George via unanimous decision
Demetrious Johnson def. Nick Pace via unanimous decision
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