Bowles and Torres Among Twelve WEC 42 Fighters Issued Medical Suspensions
Twelve fighters who were in action at Saturday’s WEC 42 event in Las Vegas, including headliners Brian Bowles and Miguel Torres, have been issued medical suspensions by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which released the list of injuries on Monday.
As MMAFrenzy.com reported earlier Monday, Bowles suffered a broken left hand in his main event first-round knockout of Torres and must have the injury cleared by a doctor if he hopes to return before the suspension ends on February 6, while Torres is suspended until October 9 for precautionary reasons.
Danny Castillo and L.C. Davis were also issued suspensions which could run until February 6, but like Bowles can be cleared by a doctor to return to action sooner.
The complete list of WEC 42 medical suspensions and injuries included:
- Brian Bowles: Left hand must be cleared by an orthopedic doctor or suspended until February 6.
- Miguel Torres: Suspended until October 9 with no contact until September 24 for precautionary reasons.
- Danny Castillo: Left hand must be x-rayed and cleared and left knee must be cleared by an orthopedic doctor or suspended until February 6.
- Ricardo Lamas: Suspended until September 9 with no contact until August 31 for precautionary reasons.
- Leonard Garcia: Suspended until September 9 with no contact until August 31 for left infra-orbital laceration.
- Cole Province: Suspended until August 31 with no contact until August 24 for lacerations on nose.
- Shane Roller: Suspended until August 31 with no contact until August 24 for left upper-eyelid laceration.
- Marcus Hicks: Suspended until September 9 with no contact until August 31 for precautionary reasons.
- Phil Cardella: Suspended until August 31 with no contact until August 24 for lacerations on nose.
- Diego Nunes: Suspended until October 9 with no contact until September 24 for precautionary reasons.
- Rafael Dias: Suspended until August 31 with no contact until August 24 for lacerations on nose.
- L.C. Davis: Must be cleared by ophthalmologist or suspended until February 6. Minimum suspension until August 31 with no contact until August 24 for precautionary reasons.
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Pictured: Miguel Torres (left) and Brian Bowles
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I hate Miguel lost but like Faber he can come back better and not as reckless and careless in his striking.!!
Kris I need you to shoot me an e-mail
and like faber he will fall again
Honestly if he hadn’t got sloppy he had that fight but hey thats the way mma goes.
I agree with Gunslinger.
I think its just like Mike Brown and Urijah Faber.
In this case, Bowles is Torres’ kryptonite.
Just my opinion.
Gun, Faber didn’t “fall”, he gutted out a 5 round decision loss with TWO damaged hands. I highly doubt Faber would have lost that second fight otherwise, which is why he’ll get another crack as soon as he’s cleared.
As will Torres.
The WEC needs Faber and Torres as champions, and not Bowles and Brown. It’s business, plain and simple.
In terms of the sport some might think it great that guys like Brown and Bowles came along and unseated popular champions and names on everyone’s p4p list, but for an MMA promotion on a tight budget like the WEC is this is an absolute nightmare.
I’m almost thinking the UFC should shut down the WEC and simply hold UFC title matches at 145 and 135. The UFC brand is synonymous with MMA in North America, and the WEC is sort of unnecessary, no?
I’d much rather see Faber and Torres crowned as UFC FW and BW champions when they get their rematches…
jcohl,
There are some rumors out there that what you suggested just might happen, I can’t say that I would be wholly opposed to seeing it, but at the same time it is kind of nice to get two Zuffa events in one weekend occasionally.
I’m thinking that maybe Zuffa will play out their Versus/WEC TV contract, and then take a look at whether or not it is in their best interests to run the WEC as a separate entity, of just fold the rest of their organization into the UFC.
Really good point about 2 Zuffa events in one weekend, which was something I hadn’t thought of.
Something that did crack me up is the thought that the WEC would have longer lasting brand visibility than PRIDE.
Who saw that coming?
Please don’t get me wrong. I like the WEC, and would have originally preferred if Zuffa had left them their WW MW, and LHW divisions. The WEC seemed like an ideal “farm system” type deal for Zuffa to feed the UFC, but obviously that idea didn’t fly.
I also like Frank Mir’s color commentary, and I’m assuming that if the WEC is absorbed, Mir will be out of a commentating gig.
Plus the WEC put on some decent cards and great fights, and the sport is better served with more healthy, responsibly run promotions out there spreading the gospel of MMA.
I once read a really cool idea that the WEC should have higher weight classes between the UFC weight classes, such as 195, or 220, but thats less likely to happen than the often-called for resurrection of PRIDE.
I just think in the final analysis that Zuffa should either flesh out the WEC with divisions at 170, 185, and 205, and work to get them on a network with more market spread than Versus, or fully incorporate their LW, FW, and BW rosters and close the lights on the WEC for good.
Keeping them around flies in the face of conventional business wisdom regarding splitting your franchise IMO…
At the ufc 101 press conference Dana White was questioned about possibly having the WEC divisions moved to the UFC (145lb, 135lb).
But Dana White said “yeah, ive thought about it…but i have thought about alot of stuff so..” or something like that. I honestly dont think we will see FW and BW divisions in the UFC for a while.
Just got back in….. the fights were great but Hard Rock sucks…