Last night at WEC 35 a really good card was put together as 3 champions made defenses of their titles. We start off with the Lightweight Champion Jamie Varner who was taking on Marcus Hicks. Varner appeared to be in some trouble in the opening round when Hicks almost applied a guillotine choke, but Varner would recognize the hold and Varner slipped away. Varner would than go on to finish the fight with a beautiful flurry of strikes and knocking out Hicks with a straight right to the chin and retaining the gold in his first defense. We go on to the second title match with Brian Stann the Light Heavyweight Champion making his first title defense against Steve Cantwell. In the first meeting Stann defeated Cantwell rather quickly this time it was a back and forth stand up battle between the two, but in the second round Cantwell mixed it up a little more and got Stann winded and that gave Cantwell the advantage to capitalize by knocking out the champ in the second round making him the new WEC Light Heavyweight Champion.
In the main event it was Welterweight Champion Carlos Condit taking on Hiromitsu Miura and these two really took it to each other with Miura making some beautiful judo throws and sweeps and with Condit making his points up in the stand up game and on the mat with some really good ground -n- pound. As the fight went along both fighters were showing fatigue and in the fourth round Condit would get Miura on the ground and would finish him off with some punches to make it a third straight title defense victory for the "Natural Born Killer".
Here are the results of the event:
Carlos Condit defeats Hiromitsu Miura by TKO (strikes) Rd.4
Steve Cantwell defeats Brian Stann by TKO (punches) Rd.2
Jamie Varner defeats Marcus Hicks by TKO (strikes) Rd.1
Brock Larson defeats Carlo Prater by TKO (strikes) Rd.1
Brian Bowles defeats Damacio Page by submission (guillotine choke) Rd.1
Josh Grispi defeats Micah Miller by TKO (strikes) Rd.1
Blas Avena defeats Dave Terrel by TKO (strikes) Rd.1
Shane Roller defeats Todd Moore by submission (guillotine choke) Rd.1
Mike Budnik defeats Greg McIntyre by submission (triangle choke) Rd.3
Scott Jorgensen defeats Kenji Osawa by unanimous decision
