WEC Bowles vs Torres Sunday Aug. 9 ...

[High 5]

It really was a close fight and Massouh certainly didn't do any damage to Garcia outside of the D'arce but Garcia's aggression in the third didn't really achieve anything. I realize activity and aggression are scoring criteria but he was just winging punches that didn't connect and didn't ever really threaten Massouh. Massouh was backing up the entire round but at least his shots landed, so I would have given him the second and third. Frankly, while he was rocked early in the first he got the better of Garcia through the rest of that round as well, so I'm pretty comfortable giving the decision to Massouh.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but that's the way the scoring works. If one guy is the aggressor and the other guy is just backing up and no damage is really happening on either side the aggressor is going to get the round. Massouh may have thought he won the first two rounds so he was just playing it safe. Either way I'm sure he wishes he did more in the third.

[Ed Wood]

It really was a close fight and Massouh certainly didn't do any damage to Garcia outside of the D'arce but Garcia's aggression in the third didn't really achieve anything. I realize activity and aggression are scoring criteria but he was just winging punches that didn't connect and didn't ever really threaten Massouh. Massouh was backing up the entire round but at least his shots landed, so I would have given him the second and third. Frankly, while he was rocked early in the first he got the better of Garcia through the rest of that round as well, so I'm pretty comfortable giving the decision to Massouh.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but that's the way the scoring works. If one guy is the aggressor and the other guy is just backing up and no damage is really happening on either side the aggressor is going to get the round. Massouh may have thought he won the first two rounds so he was just playing it safe. Either way I'm sure he wishes he did more in the third.

Oh, I'm sure he does, and the third round was so uneventful that I can't really muster any outrage on Massouh's behalf. Based upon the scoring conventions that at this point are pretty well established it was probably even the right decision, but the whole aggression thing is just a scoring criteria that sometimes works better in concept than in execution.

[High 5]

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Brian Bowles just woke up a sleeping giant. My style…I pretty much coached myself and ran my own training camps. I hadn’t lost in a long time, but after this loss, it’s going to make me revamp everything. I just got off the phone with Mark DellaGrotte and I’m working with a couple different coaches to make my game step up.

Good interview. I'm really happy to see Torres taking this approach. Not that I really expected anything different. He's too talented, smart, and young to let this ruin him.