WEC 44 Results: Aldo TKOs Brown to Become Featherweight Champ, Gamburyan Tops Garcia
Jose Aldo became the WEC’s new featherweight champion on Wednesday with a second-round TKO of title-holder Mike Brown in the main event of WEC 44, which took place at The Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas.
Also on the Versus-televised main card, Manny Gamburyan topped fellow featherweight contender Leonard Garcia by unanimous decision, newcomer Karen Darabedyan scored a split decision win over former lightweight champ rob McCullough, Shane Roller submitted Danny Castillo with a third-round rear naked choke, and Kamal Shalorus knocked out Will Kerr in the opening round.
The complete results for WEC 44 were:
- Jose Aldo def. Mike Brown (c) via TKO (strikes) – Round 2, 1:20
WEC Featherweight Championship - Manny Gamburyan def. Leonard Garcia by unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
- Karen Darabedyan def. Rob McCullough via split decision (30-27, 27-30, 29-28)
- Shane Roller def. Danny Castillo via submission (rear naked choke) – Round 3, 3:32
- Kamal Shalorus def. Will Kerr via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 1:26
- L.C. Davis def. Diego Nunes via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-26, 30-26)
- Cub Swanson def. John Franchi via submission (guillotine choke) – Round 3, 4:50
- Antonio Banuelos def. Kenji Osawa via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Ricardo Lamas def. James Krause via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
- Frank Gomez def. Seth Dikun via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
Pictured: Jose Aldo
Tags: Antonio Banuelos, Cub Swanson, Danny Castillo, Diego Nunes, Frank Gomez, James Krause, John Franchi, jose aldo, Kamal Shalorus, Karen Darabedyan, kenji osawa, L.C. Davis, Leonard Garcia, Manny Gamburyan, mike brown, Ricardo Lamas, Rob McCullough, Seth Dikun, Shane Roller, Will Kerr
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Kamal Shalorus comes out and tho he is a wrestler by trade, he comes out throwing bombs and it takes just over a minute to win bruatally by (t)ko……. Good start to the fights tonight….. (t)ko 1:26 of first
the prelim results are
Gomez won via UD
Lamas won via UD
Banuleos wins via UD (29~28)
Swanson wins via choke with 10 seconds to go in the fight
LC Davis wins via UD
Roller v Castillo, nothing going on for the first 15secs, just feeling it out…
Castillo closing distance and gettting his timing down Roller not looking impressive as of now..over hand R by Roller missses bad, nice sprawl and scramble by Castillo, Roller has him clinched up against the cage and Castillio gets out center of the cage and a huge left hook to a takedown by Castillio back to the feet, Mir is on point rightnow with his commentating… Roller still doesn’t look good, and now Roller rotates and spins on the ground goes for the GUilliotine back to the feet, Castillio gets to the feet shoots in eats a knee but Castillio still gets the TD, in full gaurd of Roller, Roller looks confident on the ground and goes for subs, castillo is landing small elbows and glancing shots, end of the round
Castillio opens up with a OHR, and Roller with jabs, horrible attempt at a take by cas, now huge body shots from cas, Castillio is throwing BOMBS and Roller pulls a Leites and Cas is standing over him, back to the feet, a hoorible shot by Roller n2 clinch, Cas pushes off, Cas is just SWINGING liek a mug, Roller with a big knee and CAs just eats it, Roller with the take, into mount locking into GUilliotine, nasty forsure, Cas is working out trying to rotate right, full mount Cas gives up back, Roller looking to flatten out, Roller warned for back of the head, Cas is trying to back door, Cas is just getting nailed rightnow with rights, Back door by Cas, and he is out Cas is just swinging hitting hard, Roller looks tired and thats the round, good stuff hard to judge due to sub attempts v sub escapes,,,
Mir and whats his nutz gave Roller the 2nd round
Roller’s stand up not so good, great sprawl by Cas now Roller has him in guard, now standing over roller back into the guard, roller with a triangle attempt, not successful, Cas has roller pinned up against the cage almost in a crucifix now Cas is in half bringing elbows into full mount, roller is just holding on, and a switch by Roller and back to the feet, a slam by roller and takes Cas back gooing for the choke looks like chin is down nooooooooooo Castillio TAPS Roller by Choke in the 3 round with 1:28 in the round, WOW
Not bad for a guy from a small village in flipping Iran! Good news for the guy that he got outta there, eh?
Craig Hummer interviews “9mm” Ed Ratcliff and Donald “COWBOY” Cerrone, Ed said he is going to bring a 360 fight, Cowboy says bring the fight Ed stand with me, lets do this baby I won’t take you down, stand with me…. Ed doesn’t respond….
the Dec 19th Card honestly looks sick,
Razor Rob v Karen Darabedyan coming up next, they say that Razor Rob has to win this bout….
Karen v Rob (yes it looks weird)
they come out swinging a dn Karen tags rob now nothing, leg kicks alot of fainting, both come in swinging and now nothing (again) Rob looks hesitant and Karen nails rob with a left hook and they seprate Karen is getting the best of Rob in this first round, 3mins to go… Rob is starting off slow and getting punched in the face for his lack of effort… Rob can take a punch and Karen won’t go in for the kill and they seperate….. Rob is not seeing Karens left and now Rob is cut on the nose, Karen has that Karo cockyness about him…. Rob is talking to Karen a little shhhh talk in the middle of a fight, Karen nails Rob with a combo and Rob still isn’t seeing that left, Karen is standing toe to toe with Rob and getting the better of him…..
rd 2
Karen is still coming after Rob, Rob can’t see that left and Karen takes rob down and closed gaurd, head control still Rob is getting worked and beat with punches HUGE elbow by Karen Nice switch by Rob wow good fight, Rob is bloody Karen is looking good, jab v jab feeling out, Rob throws Karen around they both smile, Rob is looking better this round….. Karen is cut under his right eye… jab v jab Left kicks are huge for Rob Rob is bringing it now, kicks punches nice smooth combos ROb says bring it, and they seperate, Mir is a Rob fan fyi,,,,,,last 20 seconds is combos from both fighters good round
alot of the same in this round, Karen shoots sprawl by Rob good stuff, Rob imo has to take the fight to Karen, and he just isn’t doing it….. Seriously nothing is going on light jabs and ya straight left lands by Karen and they seperate, leg kicks by Rob, not the most exciting fight rightnow… 1 30 to go and Karen is landing lefts at will, yet not throwing them rob is landing leg kicks at will yet not throwing them, Mir has given the third ot Rob 30 secs togo…. Rob says to Karen to bring it and Karen hits him in the face wit a left hook,, to the judges it goes
Karen by Split Decision, and rightfully so…..
Yeah, Karen did more damage. How two judges saw the fight 30-27 in opposite directions I have no idea, wow, we really need to work on educating these judges.
I guess id be a bad judge. I figured it was gonna be a split for Rob, but I wasnt mad at the dec by any means, close fight. Karen did more damage but i thought rob landed alot more shots
Manvel did just enough to win by decision, Leonard was well himself, he wants to bang..
Aldo did a great job against Brown and well, stopped him in rather impressive fashion, it was a “whoopin” forsure, good night of fights tonight from the WEC, this is a fun week of MMA
great night indeed i didn’t think brown would lose but i guess Jose proved me wrong
Aldo is LEGIT, I have seen both him and Brown fight twice in person and these two didn’t let me down…. Good show
yep
Well, with Brown losing, if Faber can pull a victory against Assuncao, the WEC can give him another title shot, which is good for them, for sure.
I’d like to see Aldo vs Joe Warren ……..
Joe Warren would have to sign with the WEC for that to happen, he would also have to work his way through those ranks. That would be fun to watch, because Warren is good, but I’m not sure that he’s that good, right now.
Warren has a lot going on right now with opening a new Team Quest gym and coming off his armbar loss on October 6th. He’d have to sign with the WEC and also build up a decent resume before getting a shot.
Aldo, is a monster as we all already knew.
I had Rob winning a close decision. The refs didn’t see it the same way.
“judges”
Wow, Not taking anything away from Aldo but Brown made one mistake! I guess thats all you need.
it seemed like aldo was generally quicker and had way more angles.
Aldo’s striking is so unpredictable that I don’t think brown saw where anything was coming from. Cred to brown he went in there to fight but he just couldn’t handle aldo. Aldo’s a ****in beast dude and although faber lost to brown, i would love to see faber take on aldo simply because they are both hella fast. I had a feeling aldo would win but not in such a dominant way. He really owned brown imho.
I know it sounds cheesy, but it was kool to see how happy aldo was. Shows the hard work, dedication, love and passion he has for his craft and how much it meant to him.
Kinda went the way i expected, thought Brown would get it the ground a lil tho.
“I know it sounds cheesy, but it was kool to see how happy aldo was. Shows the hard work, dedication, love and passion he has for his craft and how much it meant to him.” Agreed, Brown was like a robot when he won if i remember correctly
I thought the Aldo-Brown fight was disappointing because Brown did not come adequately prepared. The only visible change Aldo made was that he came out slower and more methodical. He gave Brown respect. But Aldo kept looking for openings and it seemed that he exploited everyone. He was only vulnerable when Brown had in against the cage.
At times Brown looked downright slow and lumbering. I would like to know whether one of the early kicks hurt him because he was in protection mode quite a bit. And in that final flurry that knocked him down Brown was defenseless.
Aldo is the pure truth. He has power, unbelievable quickness, but he also has the mind because Brown got exploited by Aldo’s thinking during the match. Aldo saw something, he saw holes. That’s the complete package.
You happen to think that maybe Brown looded slow and lumbering because Aldo is so fast? I know guys that could run a 4.5″ 40 in high school, which is pretty fast, but if you put them beside Michael Vick (in his prime) who ran a 4.25″ 40, they would look slow. It’s all about perspective.
Another solid although not spectacular event from the WEC.
And I’m thinking that with a new 145 champion, Urijah Faber will be getting a title shot fatser than if Brown Had retained…
Fo sho, I’m bucklin down onto the Aldo bandwagon tho. I dont see anyone in the WEC beatin him anytime soon (I sed that about Torres too tho) Before this fight I thought Aldo looked great but it was easy cuz he hadnt had much comp. He proved himself now tho mos def
does anyone know where i can watch aldo fight right now? i missed it last night
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