WEC 43: Cerrone vs. Henderson Live Results and Discussion
Welcome to MMAFrenzy.com’s live coverage of WEC 43: Cerrone vs. Henderson, a 10-fight card headlined by an interim lightweight championship matchup between Donald Cerrone and Ben Henderson at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.
MMAFrenzy.com will have live results from the WEC 43 preliminary card beginning at approximately 7pm ET, followed by live updates from the Versus-televised main card at 10pm.
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WEC 43 LIVE RESULTS
- Ben Henderson def. Donald Cerrone via unanimous decision (48-47, 48-47, 48-47)
- Dave Jansen def. Rich Crunkilton via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
- Raphael Assuncao def. Yves Jabouin via split decision (30-27, 27-30, 29-28)
- Damacio Page def. Will Campuzano via submission (rear naked choke) — Round 1, 1:02
- Anthony Njokuani def. Mushin Corbbrey via TKO (strikes) — Round 2, 1:24
- Scott Jorgensen def. Noah Thomas via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 3:13
- Mackens Semerzier def. Wagnney Fabiano via submission (triangle choke) — Round 1, 2:14
- Eddie Wineland def. Manny Tapia via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
- Charlie Valencia def. Coty Wheeler via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
- Deividas Taurosevicius def. Javier Vazquez via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)*
* Decision was met with boos from the crowd and many observers scored the fight in favor of Vazquez.
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Tags: Anthony Njokuani, Ben Henderson, Charlie Valencia, Cody Wheeler, Damacio Page, Dave Jansen, Deividas Taurosevicius, Donald Cerrone, Eddie Wineland, Javier Vazquez, Mackens Semerzier, manny tapia, Mushin Corbbrey, Noah Thomas, Raphael Assuncao, richard crunkilton, Scott Jorgensen, Wagnney Fabiano, Will Capuzano, Yves Jabouin
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well with an hour til the “main card” I can’t help but notice that Wagnney got sub’d and that instantly brings a simple WTF to ones mind!!!
The Wineland and Tapia fight well I didn’t think it would go to Wineland via UD, the rest of the fights seemed to have gone the way one have imagined….
This is going to be fun, little hype for a good card cant wait….
*lets make this a bout Fedor
well kinda I’m watching LSU v Florida and just saw the first CBS commercial for Fedor v Rogers, well it was just someone saying that Fedor is the worlds greatest fighter and you should watch him on CBS….
o and they gave no date, kinda interesting little plug for the Nov 7th show
I am always interested as to how shows are advertised over there in America. In the UK we get diddly squat, even though a free channel now airs a repeat of the UFC card a couple of weeks after the show, there are no adverts at all that they have that show on.
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I thought they would have adverts in the shape of a big boxing match for Strikeforce. Make it a huge Russia v USA sort of thing. Show clips of Buck Rogers knocking a Belorussian out and claim he is great, but is he good enough for the greatest of them all, the Beast from the East…. and so on. (the Buck Rogers thing is from Dana as I’m sure you know
Its 3am here now, so I will have to catch the main results in the morning. peace.
I think it is going to build up the closer the fight gets to being here…. enough of that now its time for the WEC, ya know there is a title fight on tonight… have a good one York
What a minute of fighting, good win by Paige…. He is becoming really well rounded, that was a nice start to the live WEC show…
Yeah, swarmed that guy.
Wasn’t Page featured on an episode of Tapout?
Yeah, season one.
I don’t get to watch them
. All I have is the frenzy 
All I have to say is that both men came out swinging, Damicio then goes (and gets) for the takedown, Paige then almost gets trapped into a triangle Paige gets out rotates onto the kids back trys for a RNC (chin is down) Paige elbows him a few times and then wraps up the RNC, all took about 59seconds….
Mike Thomas Brown is being interviewed rightnow, (3rd title defense), says he has to put his “old man strength” down on the kid, expects to wrestle and put his power on Aldo, says Aldo is amazing and don’t get his knee on my face….pretty honest interview
Hope Brown wins and we get Faber 3
Novemeber 18th WEC card
Danny Castillo v Shane Roller
Rob McCullough v Anthony Pettis
Leonard Garcia v Manvel (Manny the Anvil) Gamburyan
Mike Thomas Brown(c) v Jose Aldo (Junior)
I’m suprised Tapia lost by ud
random boo’s are well still annoying………….
On the feet Rafel and Yves are thowing power shots and its pretty even, noone close to finishing anything, when it went to the ground the control was there by Rafeal but when Yves wanted to get up he easily did, not a bad round pretty even
Yves is throwing BOMBS
good fight and the fans are still booing, stay classy San Antonio
Bud Light surface is “slipper than usual”
Yves almost gets tapped with 12seconds to go, yet flipped out of the choke and up til that point the round was equal for both imo
good stuff
Urijah while commenting sounds more like a fan than anything else, kinda cool
Assuncao working hard for the choke, while the ref is stating com’on gotta show me something or I will stand you up, seriously wow guy learn about ground game guy… Choke in chin down, lets go…. Kimura, and they are up, yves spinning back kick lands, spinning back fist lands hard and CLEAN Assuncao takes it, nice third round…
Sounds like this fight may go the distance and be decided by a split
Who do u have winning this fight so far
Your commentating is spot on. From what u were describing I said it sounded like a split just didn’t know who
Fr
I appreciate(sp) the play by play. Here’s a cold one to u cheers.
thank you sir, I remember that not everyone has Versus now soooo I’m just trying to let everyone have an idea about the fights
30~27 Assuncao
30~27 Yves
29~28 for your winner Rafeal Assuncao
Wagnney v Mackens is up next
Wagnney Fell into a violent triangle and Makens just locked that the F~up it was rather impressive actually, and the commentator said that Makens “shocked the world”, well no its not like Serra v GSP I, but was impressive nonetheless
Didn’t even have time to post wow
Sounds like this is turning out to be great card
Very good card. Judging in the Assuncao-Jabouin fight was sketchy and ref for Crunkilton-Jansen was standup-happy, but the fights have been good, particularly the upset of Fabiano.
Thank u for the play by play again wish I could have watched it
Rich “cleat” Crunkilton v Dave “the fugitive (?)” Jansen
Jansen’s chest tattoo > than Brock Lesnar’s chest tattoo?
Rich looks slow 18months off shows its effects?
Good throw by Rich but Dave gets up immediatly, pretty good grappling bout with alot of switches and rotations, back up, now a takedown, Dave is in half yet doing nada…… Knee bar attempt had it maybe 40%if that by Rich, now heel hook by Rich to a Knee bar, Dave rotates out, going to a darce by Rich, dave to a North south choke, to side control close gaurd now Dave on top, now to Rich’s back, Rich stand up good ground match, rich still looks slow with the hands and feet, Dave is rocked gets dropped, wow nice round
both look tired, but going for it….
Dave gets the takedown, butterfly gaurd, now a sweep and they are standing Rich gets KNEED in the nutz and its not immediatly called, dave powers through to get the takedown, ref is asks Rich if he is ok , rich goes na, now time is given adjust his shhhhh and walks around lets go, back to the fight….
Rich nails Dave with a straight right, returned with a straight left by dave, basic jabs and low kicks, knees in the clinch gets rid of Dave’s mouthpiece, dave rotates on Rich, rich stands up, pwer takedown by dave inot full gaurd, perhaps the weakest attempt at a triangle by rich in the history of ever, stood up now liver kick by Rich, Mir is complaining about the standup to put back in the mouth piece… Nice shot by Dave, rich going for the kimura, Mir is complaining about the ref’s lack of ground knowledge or something, onto round 3
slip by dave and rich is going for him now, Dave is rocked, dave catches a kick and gets the takedown, Rich stands up and now a striking battle, Rich gets taken down and sinkss and Darce like a motherfuuuker and Dave doesn’t tap, Rich lets it go WHY man, Rich drops Dave and Dave is rocked again, but is still bringing it, half gaurd by Dave now, catching their breath and randomly the ref stands them up….. Rich is GASSED, dave with ANOTHER takedown, Kimura deep by Dave now not so much (mir states if the ref stands them up now, I will have to stop commentating and go whoop his ASSS), Dave is in total control on the ground…. going to a decision… good fight
30~27
29~28 (2x)
winner is Dave Jansen
Raphael Assuncao def. Yves Jabouin via split decision
(30-27, 27-30, 29-28)
Hey guys ,I wish I could watch these fights but my satellite doesn’t have Verus
So maybe Someone can explain 30-27 / 27-30 to me thank.
I don’t know how there was a score for each fighter of 30~27, honestly it was way closer than that…. I do believe that Assuncao won but niether had a 30~27 fight imo
With any decision, the listed scores are always “winning fighter score – losing fighter score”. So when you see 30-27 and 27-30 it means the winning fighter was scored to have won the fight 30-27 on one card and lost 30-27 on another.
Rich by ko
Jorgenson v Thomas…
Thomas has his chin straight up, gets rocked within 10 seconds… Jorgenson with the takedown and gnp, closed gaurd, jorgenson picks thomas up dropped backdown into highgaurd, they work back up to the feet, chin is still straight up and thomas has bad stand up gnp by jorgenson, Jorgenson cleans Thomas the F up just ends him with GNP (elbows and bombs) pretty decent actually
Thought rich would of put him away
Anther quick fight
just got through watching the Florida-LSU game, i wouldve gone to see this one live seeing how its in my hometown, but Florida-LSU won out seeing how my 4 favorite fighters in the WEC werent in action…[Faber, Aldo, Brown, Torres] i know they were in the crowd, but it didnt warrant me going there over my favorite football team. i did try the last two weeks to win tickets through the various radio stations and i was either the 8th caller or the 10th caller when they were looking for the 9th. bad luck, but eh…
just saw jorgensen win and it was impressive. getting ready for “rice” cerrone, he should be able to pull it out. i feel he is more well rounded than henderson at this point in their careers.
should be a good fight.
Which football team is the fave? Florida or LSU?
Florida was the fave, they are ranked #1 nationally while LSU is #4. LSU should drop to 9 or 10 with the loss, when the rankings come out sunday night. it was a close game, very sloppy by both teams with the penalties and mistakes, but Florida has too much team speed, and in the end speed kills. i believe Florida was a 10 point fave according to a birdie, considering they scored 51 on LSU last year. i thought this game wouldve been a repeat, but tebow looked scared in the first half. rightfully so as he was literally knocked out 2 weeks ago by a blitz. it was a brutal hit, and he seemed out of rhythm in the first half tonight, but when they came out for the 3rd quarter he seemed to calm down and relax.
I knew Florida was the favorite for the bookies, I was asking which team is your team, but I just reread your comment and realized you didn’t say what I thought you said.
And I just reread it again and realized two things.
1. You did say what I thought you said.
2. I need to go to bed.
Donald Cerrone v Benson Henderson for the interim LW title
commentator says they are set to go live from Las Vegas Nevada, wow, then says live from San Antonio, uhhhh ok…………
Benson looks really pumped forsure in his entrance, purple belt in BJJ, 7~0 v BJJ BlackBelts in grappling competitions, 8 win streak, stong wrestling base…
Cowboy, uses “cowboy” by KidRock ofcourse looks focused as usual, leonard garcia, greg jackson is in his corner
dont forget ben is a blackbelt in taekwondo according to the announcers. insane thinking about the athletes in mma now. all-american D-1 wrestlers, purplebelt or higher in bjj, judo blackbelts, professional boxers, its no longer a guy whos a beast in one area. now you have to be a beast in everything.
slip by cerrone gets benson into a standing gulliotine, sub to sub to sub by cerrone, locked into a triangle but i guess benson’s head is “out”, now benson into a guillotine, back to standing wow…
cerrone is leaning into his punches tooo much single leg by benson to a double and a takedown gnp by benson, omaplata attempt is too loose driving takedown by benson, bodyshots by benson, cerrone is on the ground just taking punches, back flip rotation by cerrone, stil taking punches and well I have no idea what he is doing but byding time, what a round my goodness
taking their time, fake shot by benson, Cerrone is getting into rythm, take down by benson, cerrone gets benson back now reversed and into full guard benson on top, cerrone gnp from his back , up kick lands and folds benson, now to a kimura but not working for it into an arm bar, benson steps over lands a Huge elbow, cerrone is again taking punishment from the top, Benson is whooping on Cerrone from top…. Upkicks aren[’t doing much to benson, benson is still putting the beat down on Cerrone knee bar attempt but not much there benson is out doing the same beating on cerrone from the top, on to another round
Jackson yells at Cowboy to “sit down” then onto the recap of the round….
this is the third round
slow start again, cerrone rushes gets a two punch combo, nothing much else, takedown by benson, takes cerrones back, cerrone triangle to arm bar to giving up his back getting punched, rotates now benson is over him punching him about the face and body now using elbos, cerrone KICKS benson off now to the feet.. nothing much going on Benson burps for whatever reason, Donald rushes in and doesn’t hit once, a single to a double to a takedown benson on top , cerrone back to his feet sprawling pushing his head down, takedown benson on top cerrone kicks benson off now to the feet…. shot stopped by cerrone onto the fourth
Benson looks “fresh” and Varner looks well no fighter bashing
Cerrone going for the takedown now has a standing guillotine o MY WORD IT IS DEEP and benson looks composed, wow still in deep sitll in deep still in deep 330 he escapes wow Benson is a bad little dude….. standing, Benson looks a bit slower with his shots that choke took something out of him forsure… Benson is keeping his distance from Cerrone now in for the shot missed now to a double still sprawling…shot in sprawl by cerrone nice gnp by cerrone wow Cerrone is turning it on in his zone kick to the leg folds Benson at the end of the Fourth…. It depends on how you scored the first on how u see this fight… on to the fifth
shot by benson sprawl by cerrone to a double leg by benson, no dice on the takedown, cerrone drops benson at the 4 min mark, benson recovers and gets a takedown, cerrone kicks benson off now cerrone over benson, cerrone says get up, slip + push = benson on his back, benson looking for the sweep and isn’t geting it, omaplata, inot a triangle into an armbar wow into a omaplata, O he is going to break his arm omy and benson gets out the crowd goes insane bigchriss they might not know it but they like it Up kick drops benson into a triangle into a omaplata into a armbar wowowowowowowowowow what a fight sooo worth it…….. to a decision we go but this was an excellent fight just fantastic….
@FR, san antonio isnt really a classy town, and they dont understand mma. people here think its just about kicking the other guys a$$. which its not. we have a few mma gyms, [at last count it was 2], but like i said they dont understand it imo. i would consider this city a noob mma city. i probably wouldve had to put a few guys to sleep if i went to the event [due to trying to explain the small things that make mma great, it isnt a blood sport and people dont get that. ive had to handle a few guys when i used to go to buffalo wild wings to watch the UFC ppv's a few years back].
IMO, WEC should have gone to Amarillo v. San Antonio. Sure there’s less people there, but Evan Tanner is from there, Shark Fights seems to do decent there, and I know there are a handful of schools in the area. Plus Lubbock is only a 2hr drive away, and I’m sure some Tech students would make the drive.
very true justin, i was shocked when it was announced the WEC was coming here to san antonio. id hope the tech students would make the drive to amarillo considering there aint a damm thing to do in lubbock. there really isnt.
Unless of course Tech is playing.
Their mall is decent, it has a store dedicated to MMA brands.
wow, nice round. cerrone had a tight guillotine and then a beautiful transition to the triangle. [does he think hes maia?!?]. i was suprised that headkick henderson threw didnt hurt cerrone more. it missed by a few inches. i know it landed but a few inches lower and cerrone wouldve been asking “wha happen?”. dont like the booing the crowd was doing, henderson did a nice job of neutralizing the guard. i wouldve had him work the body more, noone likes to get hit in the body. then it opens up the head because the guy drops his hands to protect his body.
cerrone keeps working his subs. which is scoring points. im not sure if im more impressed with the constant sub attempts, or henderson’s ability to get out of them. i think its a matter of time until henderson knocks out cerrone. regardless of what i posted earlier. cerrone is screwed in the position hes in. he giftwrapped that kneebar for cerrone, and cerrone didnt capitilaze. cerrone is in for a long night if he keeps up this strategy. so far i have it 20-19 henderson, the first couldve gone either way.
i believe henderson should fake with the left and throw that right when he is nullifying the guard of cerrone.
round three. [im attempting to give a synopsis of the rounds, im not on FR's level but im trying]
henderson just missed on a bomb, cerrone is acting like a drunk blonde[watch the fight and you should get that bad joke].
cerrone talked some smack in the pre-fight interview they showed. he seems to be a tune up for henderson instead of what cerrone said.
ben looks sharper on the feet with the standup, curious as to why he let cerrone stand up. and hasnt attempted a takedown, nice single, nice leg sweep by henderson, looking like henderson is trying for a slam ala matt hughes. decent one by him. uppercut just missed, as did the head kick. ben seems to be a step ahead of cerrone. he seems to know what cerrone is going to do before cerrone attempts it.
4th round, henderson looks like he is sparring. not exhausted at all. cerrone needs to do something. i have it 30-27 henderson.
nice guillotine, but henderson looks calm like he is just chillin.
wow, nice escape and beautiful body kick by henderson. wtf does cerrone have to do to make henderson tap. those chokes look to be locked in.
cerrone needs to swing away because i have him losing, even if he wins this round it would be 3-1 henderson. it could be 2-2, but eh.
nice knee to the body by cerrone, cerrone should still work that guillotine, eventually henderson will tap. he keeps going for that double leg takedown, and leaving that neck out. just my opinion though, suprised greg hasnt said anything yet about it.
good round by cerrone, very good close fight. i have it 3-1 henderson so it would be 39-37 henderson. i could see it 38-38, but i dont know how the judges have it. cerrone should need a ko or sub to win, but the judges might have it differently.
UD for Benson Henderson
5th round starts,
cerrone seems to have figured out ben’s timing, getting very close to landing bombs on henderson. cerrone should do a falling punch ala dan henderson. it seems open, ref stands them up.
looked like cerrone attempted a football tackle, hey whatever works.
ben is playing it safe imo.
nice omoplata attempt and transition to triagle, yet ben keeps getting out. wtf is this dude on?
again a nice omoplata attempt and ben got out. i would be uber pissed if i was cerrone.
cerrone needs the ko with 30 seconds ledt, i dont think its gonna happen. keeps working for the sub, wow henderson got out of that sub at the last second, dont know what to call it, [i guess the rice steamer?]. he is flexible. probably does yoga or something.
im with the ref, he11 of a fight.
very close, but i give it to henderson 3rounds to 2.
wouldnt go as far as to what the ref just said, but very good fight.
48-47 across the board, and i do agree with henderson getting the win.
i think varner would get worked by him, dont like varner and i wont even say anything bad.
dont do the god prop henderson… yep he did it. i dont see why the athletes do it. i dont get the semi-deep voice by henderson. not mad that the crowd is booing varner, interesting varner is giving props to cerrone and ignoring henderson. who does varner think he is, “i want the fight in my home state, lets do this in phoenix.” bro you aint faber.
henderson by UD no way!…no way!…you could make an argument for eather guy taking a split or a draw but A UD for henderson this sucks!…..cowboy is definitly the better fighter, all henderson is is the better wrestler and the better christian
Good card, good fights, good for almost everyone but ruined for me when Fabiano got hooked.
I’ve been looking for him to be the next great 145er, but apparently he still has a ways to go…
well, great breakdown FR, just agreat breakdown of the fight. cheers bro.
it seems like cerrone underestimated henderson, which is weird considering who his trainer is. i believe he was looking past henderson to a rematch with varner, and i believe thats what cost him this fight, not to mention henderson is very limber, and part gumby. sick subs, that seemed to be in tight, and henderson got out and seemed like it didnt hurt him at all.
what a really good fight, id say great but im very picky on saying a fight is great. ill double the really, what a really really good fight. congrats to henderson, cerrone needs a little more work on his game and he should be fine.
That ****ing bull **** that henderson won, he was never close to finishing the fight or never really tried to finish the fight at all and than there is cerrone who won the little stand up there was, and had a **** load of very close submission attempts. Maybe give henderson to rounds for just standing above him and throwing down a few shots for 8 minutes but come on.
everyone’s entitled to their opinion tommy, but henderson did more than throw down a few shots for 8 minutes. he landed about 70% of the punches he threw when he nullified cerrone’s guard.
even though cerrone had numerous sub attempts, henderson got out of all of them and constantly worked for the takedown. he also was the more active fighter in the stand up game.
there is a saying in mma, “dont let the fight go to the judges”, and this fight is why. i had henderson winning 3 rounds to 2. he did just enough to win.
Truthfully, I think Henderson won the “little things”, like activity, aggression [especially shooting], cage control, and so on.
Cerrone’s sub attempts were mostly negated by Henderson’s escapes, in the judges eyes, and the stand up, what there was of it, didn’t IMO strongly distinguish either fighter as dominant.
Like bigchris2328, I had it 3 rounds for Henderson, 2 rounds for Rice Cerrone.
I can understand Cerrone’s supporter’s being upset, but lets not get carried away here, Tommy. This isn’t a horrific decision like Hamill-Bisping, or like that Chase Beebe thing down in Virginia is reported to be…
On those “little things” I personally weight sub escapes very near to sub attempts, especially some of the escapes Henderson pulled off. In addition, the fact that rounds 2 and 3 he completeley negated Cerrone’s (who is very good off his back) guard say a lot about the quality of his game.
Watching the fights live scoring round by round, the escapes, plus the rest of the round in round 1 gave that to Henderson, then 2 and 3 were obvious for Henderson, as were 4 and 5 for Cerrone.
no way was guida vs sanchez a better fight than this!…….fight of the year easily!
Sub attempts arn’t normally scored unless the fighter is put in danger e.g. limb extended, etc. A sub that does not put a fighter in danger is like a punch that dosn’t hit face.