{"id":287892,"date":"2010-02-06T21:39:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T02:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-218059:1"},"modified":"2010-02-06T21:39:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T02:39:18","slug":"guillard-squeaks-by-torres-at-ufc-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/287892","title":{"rendered":"Guillard squeaks by Torres at UFC 109"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Melvin Guillard won a unanimous decision, all three judges scoring it 29-28, over UFC newcomer Ronys Torres at UFC 109. Torres showed off excellent grappling but Guillard won it with patient defense and a few highlight-reel shots. <\/p>\n

Torres’ game plan was clear: Keep Guillard on the ground. He started with a takedown in the first round and worked to keep Guillard down. When Guillard was on his feet, he landed a few beautiful shots. <\/p>\n

At the very end of the fight, Guillard avoided a takedown attempt and mounted Torres, landing a flurry of shots. It wasn’t enough to finish Torres, but the strikes that landed clearly mattered to the judges.<\/p>\n

Guillard has been working with Greg Jackson’s Submission Fighting, and the calmer, more strategic coaching style has helped Guillard after he hit a rough patch — both in the octagon and in his personal life.  <\/p>\n

Torres’ corner — which included WEC featherweight champion Jose Aldo — created a keystone cops moment between the first and second rounds. They spilled a bag of ice as they worked on Torres. Fight officials had a hard time cleaning up the ice, prompting UFC commentator Mike Goldberg to yell, "Get a zamboni!" On Twitter, WEC fighter Miguel Torres called it the Brazilian ice bag trick<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melvin Guillard won a unanimous decision, all three judges scoring it 29-28, over UFC newcomer Ronys Torres at UFC 109. Torres showed off excellent grappling but Guillard won it with patient defense and a few highlight-reel shots. Torres’ game plan was clear: Keep Guillard on the ground. He started with a takedown in the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}