Previewish: WEC 41: Brown vs. Faber II
MMA June 7th. 2009, 5:00pm
The first time Mike Brown faced Urijah Faber, he shocked the world – or at least my living room. Brown knocked out the champ and took his belt. Now Mike Brown is the champion. He’s the biggest little man you’ll ever see. He could seemingly punch through a concrete wall. He’s like a tiny little Superman.
Urijah Faber on the other hand is a former champion trying to get his belt back. The best part abour watching Urijah is that he seemingly does something you’ve never seen every time he fights. When Brown knocked him out, it was because he tried a wild spinning back fist and spun right into Brown’s fist. It sent him flying to the mat. (See diagram, right)
Tonight will either be Faber’s redemption, or Brown’s affirmation. I’m hoping it’s the former.
The rest of the card is promising as well. The first fight will feature the always-exciting Jens Pulver. The former UFC Lightweight champion has lost 5 of his last 6 fights – including 3 straight – but he’s constantly involved in exciting and entertaining ass-kickings. He’ll take on 12-1 Josh Grispi.
The other two matches scheduled for face time on Versus this evening are Jose Aldo vs Cub Swanson and Donald Cerrone vs. James Krause. Make sure to set the DVR, you wouldn’t want to miss the big game tonight.
There’s also a full undercard that will probably never see the light of day.
- John Franchi vs. Manny Gamburyan
- Kyle Dietz vs. Rafael Rebello
- Mike Campbell vs. Anthony Pettis
- Antonio Banuelos vs. Scott Jorgensen
- Frank Gomez vs. Noah Thomas
- Seth Dikun vs. Rolando Perez
76 Responses to “Previewish: WEC 41: Brown vs. Faber II”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:08 PM
good work crm
June 7th, 2009 at 5:11 PM
mrejr: what’d you think of that quickie last night w/ Lawler?
June 7th, 2009 at 5:11 PM
the first time i saw brown fight was kis last fight against leonard garcia and he wrecked shop on him so i am looking forward to this card.
/wec newbie
June 7th, 2009 at 5:15 PM
i was shocked. mainly because i am relatively new to strikeforce(i am a ufc diehard) and have only heard about jake shields and can only really remember seeing him fight once before
June 7th, 2009 at 5:18 PM
the biggest surprise was of course brett rogers knocking out arlovski out using the windmill technigue
June 7th, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Yeah, Gus and the other guy are going on and on about how uncomfortable Shields looks and how he’s gotta be crushed that he knows he’s not strong enough to take Lawler down w/ the single leg, and the next thing you know, it’s over on a guillotine choke.
That’s the thing about MMA, a guy can completely dominate an entire fight, yet lose it in 5 seconds with one mistake. Makes it really hard to predict an outcome.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:21 PM
I know most of you don’t care about college baseball, but if you have ESPNU, take a listen to Eric Young doing color.
Dear God.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:21 PM
how is possible that ANYONE outside of Manhattan didn’t see this happening?
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/giants/2009/06/06/2009-06-06_tiki_tv.html
June 7th, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Which game is he doing Jay? I wish I had ESPNU
June 7th, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Texas/TCU
June 7th, 2009 at 5:24 PM
He sounds like Avery Johnson on crack.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:24 PM
3 for 5 performance for McCutchen in the loss today.
And Tiger can putt again.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Tiger perfect on the fairways today.
Jack just called this Tiger’s best driving week ever.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Mole: any advice for the LSAT tomorrow? I think I’m in line to get about a 160ish, depending on how hard/easy the games are.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:28 PM
This has gotta be going to a playoff.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:28 PM
what a fucking shot by Tiger!!
June 7th, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Don’t worry about it, don’t stress yourself out, go have a drink.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:29 PM
i liked how gus was calling scott smith a warrior for blocking punches with his face. gus johnson needs to stick to college basketball. i dont get his hype anyhow…because he says ONIONS!! he is good? please
June 7th, 2009 at 5:30 PM
I can do that. Well one-third of it anyways.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Fucking ridiculous.
All you mother fuckers are in trouble now.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Mole: any advice for the LSAT tomorrow? I think I’m in line to get about a 160ish, depending on how hard/easy the games are.
call whoever took the SAT’s for Dozier. They’re smart.
Fetch, seriously, good luck. My wife’s a lawyer (passed three bars). We just went to see her admission to the Supreme Court in April. She could have done it years ago, she just decided all of a sudden to do it this year. Really cool to be “in the room”.
Mole, didn;t you just graduate? Congrats to you as well
June 7th, 2009 at 5:32 PM
I don’t know, I looked at one practice test the night before and I ended up getting a 159, in my experience of working in law school admissions people tend to do about four points worse than they do on all the practice tests.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Yeah I did, thanks. I’m studying for the PA bar now, even though I have no intention of being a lawyer anytime soon, if ever, and am staying in school for a doctorate. Really regret dropping four grand on the barbri class though, that shit is a scam.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:38 PM
LLM or something else? My wife did BarBri (but that was 20 years ago…the Stone ages-lol). A friend down here is taking Fl and NY and is doing Kaplan but found out it is 100% virtual also, so he stopped going and is doing everything online. My guess is that the class is for the undisciplined to make sure you do the work?
June 7th, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Just woke up from a nap.
The Cubs game is STILL on? WTF? 5th extra inning game in the last 6 days. Bullpen is getting taxed here.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Nah I’m going back to Appalachian State for a Masters in International Relations, then doing a doctorate in Poli Sci so I can teach there. The only LLM programs in NC are at Duke and Wake, and I don’t feel like paying 40 grand a year anymore, so it’s back to state school for me.
Kaplan doesn’t offer a PA specific class, so I ‘had’ to do barbri, but as I don’t like in Pittsburgh or Philly the class is taught by video lectures. It sucks so bad to sit there for four hours without being able to actually ask questions or anything, and they’re merciless about going over the scheduled time.
I downloaded all the lectures off bittorrent though.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:42 PM
I’m almost afraid to ask about your student loan debt.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Or rather, the only LLM programs that aren’t strictly for international students.
But after three years of law school, I have no desire to associate with these kind of people on a regular basis.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Don’t worry about the games man. Those will be your easiest part to be honest. And try not to predict which section goes unscored. That’s where I effed up.
Most important of all. TAKE YOUR TIME. Seriously, it’s better to have questions go unanswered as opposed to wrong answers.
Good luck man.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:44 PM
well good luck. Sounds like a lot of school ahead of you. I couldn’t even imagine loans now.
My wife and I did $500/month for 10 years, and that was just her law school, and that was paid off 10 years ago. (Course, interest rates were about 12% then too-lol)
June 7th, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Could be A LOT worse. I’m sitting solid at about 150 right now, but I went to state school for undergrad so only had about 30ish from four years there and some of it has been paid back. I pity the bastards that pay full tuition for both undergrad and graduate school.
But next year my tuition is only 4k, which is only slightly more than what my books have cost the last two years here, so I’ll take it. And phd programs usually don’t cost money.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Thanks SC. My big thing with the games is that I suck at diagramming some of them, which I realize is a really retarded problem to have. The reading comprehension stuff is really easy, and I figure as long as I avoid rushing on the arguments I’ll do well.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:45 PM
jpq paid for his wife’s law school with animal pelts and spices he took from injuns
June 7th, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Hey! My call sign!
/who allowed him in a booth?
June 7th, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Where did you get them?
June 7th, 2009 at 5:48 PM
I took Kaplan over Princeton Review and it really helped with the games. However, it also lowered my scores on the other sections because I over-thought the questions.
I’ll tell you I got a 156 but I ended up not actually going to law school. I’m taking the GMAT in October and going back for MBA in 2011 in San Diego.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:48 PM
One of the things that congress has managed to do is make new laws for repayment.
The loans are now scaled to your income level, regardless of type of job. But if you do anything considered in the public interest (government work, legal aid, teaching) they will both scale your repayments to your income, but if you work in those fields for ten years they will wipe your remaining debt clean at the end of the ten years. As the only legal jobs I have any interest in are PD jobs and legal services, and I really want to teach in college, that shit is right in my wheelhouse.
The bitch is that at the end of the ten when they wipe it clean, that counts as taxable income, which in my case would be at least an extra 100k tacked on.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:52 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/giants/2009/06/06/2009-06-06_tiki_tv.html
On Tiki I did see this coming for sure JPQ …I sent it with comments to TBL Godfather earlier this week before this article even came out …and Tiki deserves every bit of it still …he’ll be gone before too long just like his days of touting Escalades only a few years ago that we can laugh at and condemn now …his best move is to change networks at this point. The bridges are burned (unintentionally) at Fox News Channel and at NBC.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I know nothing about another man’s family matters Mrejr/Brock and even if I did sure as hell I would not post it here, but I know this not to be true anyway. You must have missed that part about his participation in the Witness Protection Program in that forgotten “Harems For Sunshine” scandal.
Pay attention damnit!
June 7th, 2009 at 6:02 PM
I am not even that interested in MMA anymore, but that post was interesting. Thanks Captain Mexico.
+1.5 CRM
June 7th, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Fonzie! Hom-ah!
Guy with two first names already pitched. I think Larry Rothschild is the Cubs closer this Sunday.
June 7th, 2009 at 6:12 PM
you never trust someone with two first names. kevin gregg(has blown many saves for the cubs), sam elliot(invented the common cold), benjamin franklin(masterminded every earthquake….ever), carmelo anthony(has a $500 late fee at blockbuster)
June 7th, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Ahhhhh. ESPN fell off the Brett Favre wagon. Damn, I thought they were going to make it this time.
June 7th, 2009 at 6:16 PM
By the way, mark Virginia down for Omaha 2010 right now.
June 7th, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Ole Miss shitting the bed and blowing a chance at Omaha, only having to win one more at home, is almost complete.
Oh well. They can hang their “2009 SEC Champions” banner with pride.
/even though LSU won the conference on tie-breakers
//just like they did in football in 2003
///Ole Miss blows. At everything.
June 7th, 2009 at 6:20 PM
I had to dig really deep for this one.
How about, last major conference QB to win a Super Bowl is from Ole Miss? Judges?
Even the French judge gave this a 10
June 7th, 2009 at 6:28 PM
so…tiger woods rocks, huh?
June 7th, 2009 at 6:32 PM
i prefer pet rocks
June 7th, 2009 at 6:33 PM
so…tiger woods rocks, huh?
spencer: he absolutely does. Just too bad no one else he ever plays against does. That’s my only wish.
http://thebiglead.com/?p=14748#comment-422272
June 7th, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Right, and also most of the following I would add from personal experience:
1) Guys over 50 with kid names like Skip, Flip, Scooter, et cetera
, but everyone has their biases though few are honest about them.
Ninnies and ninnie-bitches
2) Guys with beards, unless they look like Santa Claus, and especially if they are bald — they always have something to hide (and shutup Jesus is an exception)
3) Clowns
4) Mimes
5) Chicks who have a lot of gay friends who are not doing their hair
6) Other undisclosed politically incorrect commentary
7) Anyone who denies having any preferences or biases
9) Beltway Washingtonians
10) Manhattanites
11) Folks from New Jersey who want to stay there
June 7th, 2009 at 6:36 PM
I prefer to remember Eli Manning who literally fell on his ass on 4th down (after tripping over his center) when he had a chance to beat LSU in 2003 and win an outright SEC West title (and deny LSU a BCS title).
Ole Miss is the only team from the West not to play for the SEC football championship.
Even Mississippi State has.
June 7th, 2009 at 6:40 PM
mrejr: You’ve done it now.
http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=413157>1=28103
CRM: delete the two posts! STAT!
June 7th, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Right and Mrejr check with JPQ on how to take cover. They are coming to take you away like they did him, but just don’t say anything you don’t know anything anyway right?
June 7th, 2009 at 6:46 PM
TBL Godfather’s beltway attorney might get the runs over this one.
June 7th, 2009 at 6:48 PM
jpq: i think we are safe i read the exact same article on yahoo before i posted those. and plus i didnt publish the photos i just linked to a website that had a picture of the picture from the tabloid. i personally blame msuspartan(he is foreign…kinda)if he wouldnt have asked for the link i would have never posted it and if sponge-worthy never brought up the whole matter the convo would have never started.
June 7th, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Ah ok that was a close one. Commence archival then Mrejr, and then hold for use on eBay in a few weeks, but check with JPQ first.
June 7th, 2009 at 6:51 PM
if he wouldnt have asked for the link i would have never posted it
if he told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?
/acting like a father now, since you always call me old
June 7th, 2009 at 6:54 PM
wrong question to ask..pops. you should ask
if he asked you to push him off a bridge would you do it?
the answer: yes
June 7th, 2009 at 6:56 PM
wrong question to ask..pops. you should ask
if he asked you to push him off a bridge would you do it?
the answer: yes
that’s my boy!
June 7th, 2009 at 6:58 PM
3 minutes away from the WEC on Versus for those interested.
June 7th, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Looking back on it a year later, it really seems like it. They constantly tried to freak us out in terms of what you need to do for the score. Did way too much work for that bar. Next bar I take I think I’ll probably try taking it with very little work, maybe try to find some of the free/cheaper practice multiple choice things.
June 7th, 2009 at 7:05 PM
if a champion cant make weight for a fight he should be stripped of his title
June 7th, 2009 at 7:10 PM
if a champion cant make weight for a fight he should be stripped of his title
not if you’re Gina Carano and it can turn into a striptease.
I thought it started at 9? Who didn’t make weight?
June 7th, 2009 at 7:15 PM
jpq…your older post was funny. ogilvy, dlIII and byrd all choked like dogs.
at least furyk showed some balls…but tiger’s just too fucking good when his ballstriking was as on as it was. his driving was pretty decent, he piped one, and the rest were more than good enough the way he was hitting his irons.
so…he wins by 5 at bethpage?
June 7th, 2009 at 7:17 PM
ah this is a replay…nevermind about the weight
June 7th, 2009 at 7:18 PM
her and cyborg are gonna see who can come in the most overweight.
June 7th, 2009 at 7:34 PM
so…he wins by 5 at bethpage?
SERGIO IS A STONE COLD LOCK AT BETHPAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
/i remember reading that by someone about 20 times.
Tiger will be VERY tough to beat. I’m just looking forward to how low-key the Phil/Amy Mickelson breast cancer story is going to be discussed
Can’t wait to see the legion of Johnny Bagadonuts following Phil for four days, screaming: “Fuggetabouttit, Philly’s gonna win dis tooornament”!
June 7th, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Oh yeah, pretty soon Spencer is going to have to change his name to something. I almost forgot about that.
June 7th, 2009 at 7:42 PM
yea well…sergio was on the brink of a serious breakthrough and i got suckered into thinking he was turning the corner. he’s still my favorite golfer to watch tee to green, and his game is fit for bethpage but i just can’t have faith in him the way he’s been “playing” this season.
the phil hysteria is going to be off the charts…dan hicks wouldn’t have it any other way. i feel bad for saying that, but it’s just a shame it’s a story that’s going to get beaten into the ground.
June 7th, 2009 at 7:43 PM
fetch…what do i have to change my name to? i forget the bet.
June 7th, 2009 at 7:43 PM
I’ll never understand the Tiki hate. He maximized his abilities in the NFL to the point where his a borderline Hall of Famer, stays out of trouble (unlike media darling Charles Barkley), has a grasp of the English language (unlike Emmitt Smith or Michael Irvin), and worked his craft while still in the league.
Fun fact: At times, there were 24 professional major victories in the 18th tower on CBS today.
June 7th, 2009 at 7:45 PM
i forget too. Something about KU being better than Ohio State I think but Im not sure
June 7th, 2009 at 7:47 PM
fetch…what do i have to change my name to? i forget the bet.
I_Sucked_Sergio’s_Hermaphrodite_Cock
pretty sure that was it
June 7th, 2009 at 7:51 PM
ah he is trying to figure out a post by paolo…isnt that cute
June 7th, 2009 at 7:52 PM
and the sweetest part of the whole thing?
two of those majors came at the expense of greg norman at augusta in the most gut-wrenching fashion.
and i really don’t think that was it.
June 8th, 2009 at 12:30 PM
http://www.viddler.com/explore/wheells1/videos/2/