Urijah Faber vs. Jens Pulver
50-45, 50-44 & 50-44 for a unanimous decision for Faber

Miguel Torres vs. Yoshiro Maeda
Torres wins via TKO (Injury) at 5:00 of the third round

Chuck Grigsby vs. Mark Munoz
Munoz wins via KO (Strikes) at 4:15 of the first round

Kenneth Alexander vs. Rob McCullough
30-27, 30-27, & 28-29 for a split decision for McCullough

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Anyone who is paying attention to modern MMA can see that the biggest names in the business are not consistently offering a top shelf product. Elite XC put together a card that pits their champions against mediocre fighters and will make for a less than entertaining night aimed at getting attention, not at putting out a high quality product.

The UFC put on one of their best events ever, which had three interesting light heavyweight matchups, the debut of a man many consider a future phenom (Shane Carwin, just so we’re clear) and the biggest matchup that they can offer at 155 pounds.

Still, as I scroll down the cards of upcoming events, I found something bizarre.

The UFC is promising to put out shows that are far from interesting, namely it’s utterly uncreative UFC 85 card which consists of two interesting matchups on the entire evening (Davis vs. Swick and Vera vs. Werdum) and it’s unpromising TUF finale card which is headed by two fighters hardly at the top of their game, while the only two interesting matchups it has to offer (McFedries vs. Eastman and Lister vs. Horn) will remain in the middle of the card and will probably not be broadcast but for the grace of God.

So I am damned to look for incredible fights on the outskirts of the MMA world, but what I found is that I don’t actually have to look, because everybody else seems to actually care about putting out top notch fight cards.

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Sam Caplan of Five Ounces of Pain hosted interviews with Jens Pulver and Urijah Faber earlier today. Check out the interviews to learn all about both fighters before their showdown on Sunday, June 1st at the Arco Arena which can be seen live on Versus and TSN.

Urijah Faber: First Interview - Second Interview

Jens Pulver: First Interview - Second Interview

All four audio files are in MP3 format. Below is the 30 second WEC 34 commercial as well.

Peter Dropick, VP of the WEC, is calling this fight the biggest featherweight fight in history and one of the biggest fights in all of MMA. It’s hard to say whether it will be the biggest in MMA, but it’s certainly a big fight for the WEC and the light weight classest. Sponsors include No Fear and Anheuser Busch. Expect to see the Bud Light banner on the canvas Sunday night.

Asked how he was doing early in the interview, Urijah Faber says he’s “ready to rock.” He’s approaching this just like any other fight. “It’s a fight between two tough ass dudes and that’s the way I’m gonna keep it,” he says.

About him talking about taking the fight to the ground in past interviews, Jens Pulver says “We’ve gotta stand to start the fight…but I’m not gonna take bad shots to take the fight to the ground.” And it’s not all about the ground for Pulver either. “The biggest thing I want to get into is the clinches.” Pulver realizes it’s not going to be an easy fight though. “Urijah is too good…”

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