World Extreme Cagefighting made their live television debut on the Versus network last night and overall I thought the show was very good. The production value was excellent and for a first time viewer to the sport, I think that the initial impression was top notch.
Pros
- Pace of the fights - All of the fights were good fights and well-paced with a lot of action. I’m not sure if this is inherent in the nature of these “smaller” shows, if its due to the smaller cage dimensions, or if its just due to the hunger of the fighters themselves, but I enjoyed seeing the good pace.
- Urijah Faber - I love watching Urijah Faber fight and I really wish that we could have seen a match between Faber and Kid Yamamoto take place. Unfortunately, I don’t think that will ever happen.
Cons
- Frank Mir as the “color commentator.” - Well, for that matter, both announcers were pretty awful. Several long pauses and unintelligent comments by Mir left me scratching my head on several occasions. Nothing left my scratching my head as much as Mir being referred to as “the champ” by the other ringside announcer.
- Mark Hominick - While Mark Hominick didn’t detract from the WEC show itself, I’m just overall disapointed with his performance. Hominick really has some great talent, especially at his natural weight of 145, and I think the WEC was hoping for an easy victory by Hominick to setup a title fight with Faber. However, Hominick fell rather quickly to a few very sloppy takedown attempts by Rani Yahya and gave up the rear-naked choke shortly into the first round.
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