UFC 132 Results: Dennis Siver Defeats Matt Wiman
UFC 132 takes place on Saturday, July 2 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV. The main event features the first UFC bantamweight title fight ever as Dominick Cruz defends his title against the only fighter to ever defeat him, Urijah Faber.
The co-main event features the long awaited return of Wanderlei Silva, who faces Chris Leben. Also appearing on the main card was Tito Ortiz who faces Ryan Bader.
The third fight on the main card featured Dennis Siver (18-7) against Matt WIman (13-5).
Siver came into the fight after defeating the highly ranked George Sotiropoulos in his last bought, while Wiman was coming off a win over Cole Miller.
Early on these two looked like they were only interested in ending the fight by KO, but Wiman mixed it up about 2:00 in when he landed a brief takedown. Siver’s takedown defense was solid and he kept Wiman at bay.
In the second round the fight went to the ground with Wiman working inside the guard of Siver, opening him up with an elbow.
Siver did a very poor job of controlling Wiman and Siver was bleeding badly from the elbows that Wiman seemed to be landing at will.
The third round was uneventful until Wiman attempted a choke that he could not stick and he then caught a leg from Siver and took the fight to the ground.
Siver was able to stand and he put Wiman to the ground with a leg kick with 15 seconds left, but he could not make anything happen as the horn souned.
This one went to the cards: 29-28 to Siver. WIman ripped his hand from the referee’s grasp, threw his hat and stormed from the cage as the fans booed the call.
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