Mixed Martial B0nes

Main Card

Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Doug Marshall vs. Brian Stann
* Stann defeated Marshall via KO (Punches) at 1:35 of round 1 to become the new WEC Light Heavyweight champion.

Middleweight bout: Chael Sonnen vs. Bryan Baker
* Sonnen defeated Baker via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-25, 30-25).

Lightweight bout: Marcus Hicks vs. Ed Ratcliff
* Hicks defeated Ratcliff via submission (Guillotine Choke) at 1:42 of round 1.

Light Heavyweight bout: Steve Cantwell vs. Tim McKenzie
* Cantwell defeated McKenzie via submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 2:13 of round 1.

Undercard

Welterweight bout: Hiromitsu Miura vs. Blas Avena
* Miura defeated Avena via TKO (Punches) at 2:35 of Round 1. This bout, although preliminary, was aired on the live broadcast.

Welterweight bout: Brock Larson vs. John Alessio
* Larson won via disqualification (Illegal Knee) at 1:50 of Round 1.

Lightweight bout: Richard Crunkilton vs. Sergio Gomez
* Crunkilton defeated Gomez via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-27, 29-28). This bout, although preliminary, was aired on the live broadcast.

Welterweight bout: Alex Serdyukov vs. Ryan Stonitsch
* Serdyukov defeated Stonitsch via submission (Triangle Choke) at 1:35 of Round 1.

Bantamweight bout: Chris Manuel vs. Kenji Osawa
* Manuel and Osawa fought to a split draw after three rounds. The judges scored the fight 29-28 (Osawa), 29-28 (Manuel) and 28-28.

Middleweight bout: Logan Clark vs. Scott Harper
* Clark defeated Scott Harper via TKO (Strikes) at 4:37 of round 1.

The WEC is putting on a show tomorrow, Wednesday March 26th. These guys don’t mess around with hugging each other until someone gets weirded out. No, it will be a lot of fists and elbows cracking skulls and I can’t wait. Definitely a great bunch of matches to whet our appetites for UFC 83 and UFC’s Fight Night which are right around the corner! Let’s just see who is going to kick sand in who’s face tomorrow!

Hiromitsu Miura Vs. Blas Avena Hiro is the stand up guy in this one with Blas being the submission specialist. They both have pretty light experience with Hiro having the edge there with a 7-3 record. Blas has a 4-1 record though so he hasn’t felt the bad taste of losing as much as Hiro. Even though they chose the dumb nickname of “Last Samurai” for him, I’m going with the standup dude since that’s the kind of pain I like to see.

Steve Cantwell Vs. Tim McKenzie Tim the “Wrecking Machine” has been out of the game for a while and Cantwell brings a 4-1 record with him. Not much to say about these two although the Machine hasn’t worked recently so a little ring rust may be his undoing. Cantwell actually faced the headliner for this event. Unfortunately he didn’t get the best of the marine just a KO. I see Cantwell putting it together and beating McKenzie back to the couch with the rest of us.

Ed Ratcliff Vs. Marcus Hicks This is the “Well, daig nabbit! Someone’s gotta lose” special of the night. They both have 6-0 records and that they aren’t fighting for a title is a bit bewildering but in their division at 155, there is steep competition. Maybe they need to eat a bit more corn and get in to the big boys room? I’m going to play hometown favorite here and give it to another striker: Ed for the win or FTW for you Interweb Weenies!

Chael Sonnen Vs. Bryan Baker We last saw Chael lose in a weird fight with Paulo Filho. I’m pretty sure he wants another crack at him and will try to put Bryan Baker in his place. He has an extensive record of 21-8-1 and has lots of experience in WEC as well as UFC. Lately his game has been a bit dicey though with two losses in a row. He’s not getting a cream puff in Baker here. His record is 6-0 and he’ll probably try and duplicate other efforts against Sonnen and submit him. I think Sonnen’s experience will help him and get him over the hump in this one.

Doug Marshall Vs. Brian Stann Here is our championship match of the evening. We last saw Doug Marshall totally destroy Ariel Gandulla in something like 50 seconds. He then jumped into the crowd and tried to goad someone into fighting some more. Luckily no one was dumb enough to take him up on his offer. His challenger is Brian Stann, a marine fighting out of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Stann doesn’t have nearly the record that Marshall has at 4-0, but Marshall’s 7-3 record doesn’t have him flying over to Iraq to bash the skulls of terrorists with bullets and whatever else is needed. This should prove to be an interesting match. For some reason, I think the marine is going to smash Marshall and grab the Light Heavyweight belt for himself. How does it go? HooRAH!