{"id":398391,"date":"2010-03-07T00:12:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T05:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-226322:1"},"modified":"2010-03-07T00:12:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T05:12:22","slug":"benavidez-wins-by-bloody-submission-over-torres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/398391","title":{"rendered":"Benavidez wins by bloody submission over Torres"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joseph Benavidez staked his claim for the next title shot in the WEC bantamweight division with a submission at 2:57 in the second round over Miguel Torres.  <\/p>\n

Benavidez controlled the first round with takedown skills and elbows, but his performance in Round 2 was what took out the former champ. After Torres finally started to use his jab — usually one of his most effective weapons — Benavidez used one of his better weapons, a power double leg takedown. Benavidez took Torres down and threw two elbows, the second of which opened up a huge gash on Torres’ forehead.<\/p>\n

The two stood up, but Torres was covered in blood. Benavidez locked in a guillotine and Torres tapped near the middle of the second round.  <\/p>\n

"I’ve been waiting for this fight forever," Benavidez said. "I believed in myself."<\/p>\n

Before his August loss to Brian Bowles, Torres had only suffered one loss in his career. Now, with two losses in a row, the former WEC bantamweight champion is in a tough position. He had changed up his entire training camp after his loss to Bowles. He fought the smart fight he wanted to, but was overcome by Benavidez’s aggressiveness.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joseph Benavidez staked his claim for the next title shot in the WEC bantamweight division with a submission at 2:57 in the second round over Miguel Torres.  Benavidez controlled the first round with takedown skills and elbows, but his performance in Round 2 was what took out the former champ. After Torres finally started to […]<\/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-398391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398391","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=398391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}