WEC's Manny Tapia injured - OUT for June 1st event - Fight Forum - MMA - UFC - Boxing - K1

T-Bone · 04-15-2008, 09:55 AM

This is bad news. I was looking forward to seeing him lose to Torres.

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Top WEC bantamweight contender Manny Tapia (10-0-1) has been forced to pull out of his June 1 title fight with champ Miguel Torres (32-1) due to a knee injury.

The WEC made the announcement today.

According to the bulletin, Tapia suffered the injury during a recent training session.

The title fight was one of the main draws for the WEC's June 1 event, which takes place at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, Calif. WEC featherweight champ Urijah Faber meets Jens Pulver in the night's main event.

Tapia's replacement is expected to be named shortly.

Tapia, undefeated in 11 professional bouts, made his WEC debut in December 2006 and has since posted a TKO victory over Brandon Foxworth and a split-decision win over Antonio Banuelos. The longtime King of the Cage fighter is the organization's former 135-pound champion.

Torres won the WEC's 135-pound title with a victory over Chase Beebe in February. It was his 14th straight victory.

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The WEC also today confirmed a June 1 bout between K-1 and TKO veteran Damacio Page (10-3) and longtime Pancrase veteran Yoshiro Maeda (23-4-2).

The fight will likely be part of the Versus televised main card.

Injured Tapia scratched from WEC title fight with Torres - MMAjunkie.com

Mulla · 04-15-2008, 10:24 AM

I finally got to see his fight with Banuelos (sp) the other day, what a strange ending/result. Has that ever happened before?

Rumbin · 04-15-2008, 10:34 AM

Yoshiro Maeda is going to step in according to MMA Mania, which is such a better fight then Tapia. Poor Manny thou, this is the 2nd time this has happened.

T-Bone · 04-15-2008, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Mulla

I finally got to see his fight with Banuelos (sp) the other day, what a strange ending/result. Has that ever happened before?

Didn't someone call it a draw? Split was the result, right? Refresh my memory.

Rumbin · 04-15-2008, 11:24 AM

They ruled it a draw and 1 judge said he ****ed up and gave it to Tapia, pretty sure he said he wrote it down wrong or something.

Mulla · 04-15-2008, 11:30 AM

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They ruled it a draw and 1 judge said he ****ed up and gave it to Tapia, pretty sure he said he wrote it down wrong or something.

Yep.

Thinking about it didnt the same thing happen in the Jason Black v Matt Grice fight in the UFC?

T-Bone · 04-15-2008, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Rumbin

They ruled it a draw and 1 judge said he ****ed up and gave it to Tapia, pretty sure he said he wrote it down wrong or something.

Thanks...that was pretty strange.

That kinda reminded me of an IFO fight I saw last year - Kimmons v. Eastman when they gave the fight to Kimmons (at first) after Eastman was clearly the winner. It was reversed but that just looked really lame. I'm not certain but I don't know if that was the judges fault - possibly the dumb ring announcer. Either way...just appeared real amateur.

Drew Shayze · 04-15-2008, 05:21 PM

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Yep.

Thinking about it didnt the same thing happen in the Jason Black v Matt Grice fight in the UFC?

Yes, same thing happened.

I'm actually disappointed that Tapia got injured, since I've been really impressed with Manny lately. Even in the fight with Chuck Liddell's pool boy, Tapia was able to show some solid stand-up. I wanted to see how he'd do against a freakin' stud in Miguel Torres.

Maeda's a good replacement, though. Scrappy little guy, but has a tendency to get stupid.