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Not sure how many people here caught this, but the WEC's December card just got finished on Versus. Happened to be a great night of fights, and if you missed out- god damnit, you missed out.

Starting off..
-Doug Marshall vs Ariel Gandulla for the 205-pound title.
My thoughts on this were that Marshall was strictly a brawler with some wrestling experience and limited BJJ, like somewhat of a refined... primed Tank Abbott, and that Gandulla was a good Cuban boxer with a great story. He came over from Cuba on a raft with nine other people when he was just a kid, and he got into the fight game shortly thereafter. Hard to root against that, but I felt Marshall would score a big early knockout. Man, I was surprised. Marshall came out and quickly threw a flying knee, which Gandulla caught and used to sidemount Marshall. From there, Marshall got back to his guard and quickly looked for a triangle (which was surprising enough), from which he transitioned beautifully to an armbar which forced a quick tap.

Winner, 3x WEC 205-pound champion, Doug Marshall (Armbar R1)

After the played an insignificant (though a great ****ing fight) pre-filmed preliminary fight between veteran Charlie Valencia and Ian McCall, it was time for the Middleweight title fight between undefeated PRIDE veteran Paulo Filho and olympic alternate wrestler and Team Quest member Chael Sonnen.

In the first round, Chael rocked Paulo really, really badly and slammed him, then proceeded to tee off on him for the rest of the round until Filho locked on a beautiful armbar from the bottom, which Chael escaped with a few seconds left in the round. By merit of sheer dominance, Chael got the round on just about everyone's scorecard, 10-9.

In the second roumd, there was a different story. It looked to be pretty similar up until the point where Chael shot and took Filho down straight into his guard, where he locked on another armbar. Chael was screaming at the ref not to stop it when he lurched in and stopped it anyway. There was no tap, but the referee ruled that Chael was in danger of getting that thing snapped. Chael was classy in such a controversial defeat, though, and thanked Filho for the challenge. Unless the WEC can bring in some good talent to fight the #2-ranked middleweight in the world, we might see a rematch.

Winner, 2x WEC Middleweight Champion Paulo Filho (Armbar R1)

After this was a good dark bout between Brian Bowles and Marcus Galvao (dark meaning preliminary), then the long-awaited Featherweight WEC debut of former UFC champion Jens Pulver and up-and-coming Cub Swanson.

There was some serious bad blood going on before this fight, and the fight surely mirrored that. They came in and banged for about 10 seconds, until Cub shot for a single leg that Pulver defended and eventually reversed to sidemount where he looked for somewhat of an arm-triangle choke, that when Cub tried to standup, became an anaconda choke- Jens dropped down and walked while Cub squirmed trying to free himself, and after 35 seconds of fighting, Cub was left with no option but to submit.

Winner, Jens Pulver (Anaconda Choke R1)

After this was the main event, a long-awaited technical battle between KOTC and WEC champion Urijah Faber and Crystal Lake, Illinois Jiu-Jitsu instructor, PRIDE/UFC veteran Jeff "Big Frog" Curran. My thoughts on this were that Faber would weather an early storm of takedowns and some pounding, and eventually end up on top and pound out a win. Not too far off. Faber came in, got taken down and backmounted until the end of the first round, and though Curran couldn't finish, he stole round one 10-9 on anyone that isn't a ****ing retard's scorecard.

Round two was different. Curran landed another takedown right to Faber's guard, where he stacked up and latched on a guillotine choke, which after being in for about 20 seconds, left Curran to submit and leave the arena consciously. A great showing by WEC posterboy Faber leaves him to probably fight Jens Pulver around May.

Winner, 4x WEC Champion Urijah Faber (Guillotine Choke R2)



Pretty good event, like I said, if you missed it you missed big.

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