WEC 39 Tonight

[canucksfreak19]

Here are the weigh-in results for the show tonight. Everybody made weight. I am really looking forward to the title fight, as well as the Jose Aldo fight. He is fast becoming one of my favorite fighters to watch. Should be another entertaining night.

WEC Featherweight Championship
Mike Thomas Brown (144.25) vs. Leonard Garcia (145)

Ricardo Lamas (154.5) vs. Bart Palaszewski (155.5)
Chris Mickle (145) vs. Jose Aldo (145.5)
Rob McCullough (156) vs. Marcus Hicks (155.5)
Phil Cardella (155.5) vs. Danny Castillo (156)
Damacio Page (136) vs. Marcos Galvao (136)
Alex Serdyukov (171) vs. Johny Hendricks (171)
Rafael Rebello (135.25) vs. Kenji Osawa (135.25)
Greg McIntyre (155) vs. Alex Karalexis (156)
John Franchi (145) vs. Mike Budnik (145.25)
Mike Pierce (170) vs. Justin Haskins (170.25)

 

[Turtlelo]

Pulling for Razor Rob. I was at Extreme Couture last week and watched the lightweights sparring (Junie Browning, Gray Maynard, Tyson Griffin, and Razor Rob) with each other. Those guys looked great. Well, at least Tyson, Gray, and Rob did. Junie hung in there, but looked dead after the session.

 

[canucksfreak19]

Pulling for Razor Rob. I was at Extreme Couture last week and watched the lightweights sparring (Junie Browning, Gray Maynard, Tyson Griffin, and Razor Rob) with each other. Those guys looked great. Well, at least Tyson, Gray, and Rob did. Junie hung in there, but looked dead after the session.

Conditioning is something that Junie can develop though, he's only been training with Shawn Tompkins and Extreme Couture since October (I think), if he can learn to live a disciplined life he has a lot of natural tools that could make him a really good/great fighter down the road.
I'd also like to see McCullogh win, get closer (if not next in line) at a lightweight title fight with the winner of the Varner Cerrone rematch. Rob's matches with both of those guys were AWESOME, and I would love to see a rematch with either of those two.

 

[canucksfreak19]

So on a side note. You saw Tyson Griffin were his legs worth all of the fawning that Joe Rogan gives them every time he fights?

 

[Turtlelo]

Conditioning is something that Junie can develop though, he's only been training with Shawn Tompkins and Extreme Couture since October (I think), if he can learn to live a disciplined life he has a lot of natural tools that could make him a really good/great fighter down the road.

At least Junie survived that session. Something I could never do. They may have beat the holy hell out of him, but he took it and walked out of the cage on his own. I'm sure his conditioning will only get better if he keeps his discipline.

 

[Turtlelo]

So on a side note. You saw Tyson Griffin were his legs worth all of the fawning that Joe Rogan gives them every time he fights?

I outweigh Tyson by 30 pounds, and his thighs look like they are as big as my waist. GOD are they freakin' HUGE!!! I never want to be kicked by one of those things!

 

[canucksfreak19]

I'm choked as TSN is not showing the event tonight. Anyways on to the results thus far.

Results:
Mike Thomas Brown vs. Leonard Garcia: Brown wins via Submission (Arm Triangle Choke) @ 1:57 of Round 1.
Ricardo Lamas vs. Bart Palaszewski: In an upset Lamas wins via Unanimous Decision
Chris Mickle vs. Jose Aldo: Aldo wins via TKO (Strikes) @ 1:39 of Round 1
Rob McCullough vs. Marcus Hicks: McCullough wins via Majority Decision
Phil Cardella vs. Danny Castillo: Castillo wins via Split Decision
Damacio Page vs. Marcos Galvao: Page wins via Knockout @ 18 seconds of Round 1. Galvao was knocked unconcious and did not respond to doctors until he was being carted out on a stretcher. A very scary situation for a while there.
Alex Serdyukov vs. Johny Hendricks: Hendricks wins via Unanimous Decision
Rafael Rebello vs. Kenji Osawa: Osawa wins via Spit Decision
Greg McIntyre vs. Alex Karalexis: Karalexis wins via TKO (Strikes) @ 4:19 of Round 1.
John Franchi vs. Mike Budnik: Franchi wins via Slipt decision
Mike Pierce vs. Justin Haskins: Pierce wins via TKO (strikes) @ 3:39 of Round 3.