Breakdown of WEC Faber vs. Pulver
Sacramento’s ARCO Arena played host to WEC Faber vs. Pulver (aka WEC 34) last night, with about half of the card being televised live on the Versus cable channel.
The evening’s highlight was undeniably the encounter between Chicago-based Miguel Torres and Yoshiro Maeda. This clash of 135-pound titans saw each deliver and take serious damage, and even included a standoff on footlocks that had me on the edge of the seat. Torres opted not to use his free foot to help pry his attacked foot away, and instead used it to continue to deliver heel kicks to Maeda. Eventually while standing Maeda’s right eye took so much punishment due to Torres’ regular jabbing that the medical team deemed that the fight must be stopped, and Torres retained his featherweight title.
Here is a snapshot of how our predictors performed here on MMAPredictions.com for the event overall, which you can see by going to the card’s detailed results page.
- 407 MMAPredictions users predicted on the card.
- The average of all our users’ prediction accuracies for the card’s 11 fights on MMAPredictions was 43.6% making this card less predictable than most MMA events. On average we can expect about half of a fight card to be correctly predicted by our users on this site.
- No one predicted all of the eleven fights correctly, but MMAPredictions user mfd420 deserves special mention for being the only person to miss just one fight!
Average percent of card correctly predicted: 44%
Most easily-predicted fight outcome: Ninety-nine percent of MMAPredictions users knew that Rob McCullough would defeat Kenneth Alexander. I can only presume our predictors were not aware that Alexander actually had beaten McCullough in the past, but that’s pretty arcane trivia. In any case the fight itself was one of the least entertaining we have seen in a while. The other fights easily made up for this however.
Most surprising fight outcome: We have a tie! Just thirteen percent of our predictors had faith in both Will Ribeiro and Michael T. Brown. However both were able to come away with respective decision victories over Chase Beebe and Jeff Curran, two very respected fighters.
You know what I am about to say next: This weekend on MMAPredictions we have UFC 85: Bedlam on the way, so make sure you get your predictions in the system here. Also, we will have an audio interview posted here on the site tomorrow with Kevin Burns, a last minute replacement for Ryo Chonan and will make his UFC debut against Roan Carneiro this weekend!
- Caleb 
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