What Happened to Miguel Torres?

[WoozyFailGuy]

A style not conducive to a long career is usually a fun style, and boy was Miguel Torres fun while he lasted.
The lifelong representative of the 219, Torres would rise to glory, blazing a path for the rest of the men who happened to weigh 135lbs along the way.
I still think he beat DJ.

INC is an underrated channel on MMA, show em a little love!

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Getting cut for the rape van joke killed his spirit

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

Getting cut for the rape van joke killed his spirit

It would have done the same to me.
They then did him dirty and signed him again to feed him to the 14-1 prospect whose style matched up well with him, then immediately recut him.

One of the dirtiest Dana moments in all honesty.

 

[cade187]

Yeah he never recovered from that horrible van accident.

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

Yeah he never recovered from that horrible van accident.

No wonder Frank Mir loved him!

 

[Tweak896]

Was crazy when people first started paying attention to weight classes under 155 in MMA, everyone talked about Torres or Faber like they were Fedor, just only for hardcores who watched all of MMA. They came to UFC and started taking losses, so tons of people basically wrote them off. But Torres himself already was fighting for 9 years and 38 fights before he was caught by Bowles. Faber fought for 5 years and 20 fights before losing to Brown.

If you saw their rise, you'd think they'd be a staple to be on the lists for BW Goat or FW Goat, had those 20 or 40 fights been in UFC. It's a shame what time does to fighters that took losses later in their career. They never get the respect they deserve for carving out the divisions.

As far as Torres, he was a victim of the tides turning for what was acceptable in public. The internet and everyone on it made it a pretty edgy place, but by 2011, that's where people started being held accountable for offensive humor online, really it was a change culturally. He made a dumb rape and party van joke, and immediately dropped from UFC as commentator. I know tons of famous people who were cancelled from posting stuff during early internet. I'm just glad I'm a nobody, because if anyone combed through what I said, I'd be cancelled too. But that sort of set the tone for dropping him as basically the BW pioneer and forgotten about. What a shame.

 

[IndyCovaHart]

Longest arms in da biz

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

Longest arms in da biz

One of the largest Ape Indexes in history!
Didn't know Volk had such long arms, makes sense now why he's the last true king of the manlets.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

It would have done the same to me.
They then did him dirty and signed him again to feed him to the 14-1 prospect whose style matched up well with him, then immediately recut him.

One of the dirtiest Dana moments in all honesty.

"We don't cancel people!"

- Daner White

 

[CasualBot]

I love when this thread reappears annually.

 

[Shaolin Alan]

He fell bad into depression & alcoholism. He still coaches at his gym. I’ll share the documentary…

 

[NicholasJBasile]

A style not conducive to a long career is usually a fun style, and boy was Miguel Torres fun while he lasted.
The lifelong representative of the 219, Torres would rise to glory, blazing a path for the rest of the men who happened to weigh 135lbs along the way.
I still think he beat DJ.

INC is an underrated channel on MMA, show em a little love!

I won money on DJ defeating him but yeah I agree -- Torres got robbed imo

 

[StewDogg11]

He was never actually that good. Go take a look at his record and see how many names you actually recognize from his mythical 37-1 run. I recognize three I think.

 

[Shaolin Alan]

He was never actually that good. Go take a look at his record and see how many names you actually recognize from his mythical 37-1 run. I recognize three I think.

Filthy Casual self identified

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

Man... I miss Prime WEC

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

He fell bad into depression & alcoholism. He still coaches at his gym. I’ll share the documentary…

Hadn't seen this one before, thanks for sharing, I noticed he was quite a bit heftier in the end of the INC video.

I love when this thread reappears annually.

He deserves his flowers, especially in the sea of new fans who don't even understand his significance in the early days of the small guy weights. If the WEC weren't exciting, BW, FW, and FLW could have died on the vine, and memes aside about watching children fight, I think the sport would be more hollow without them.
Torres and Aldo were the embodiments of the blue cage.

 

[Neck&Neck]

Man... I miss Prime WEC

And prime Brittney

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

And prime Brittney

 

[HUGHPHUG]

His WEC run was spectacular, one of the most fun fighters to watch

 

[StewDogg11]

Filthy Casual self identified

Nope sorry. I remember the days of Frank Mir swinging from his nutsack. Answer the question though. His competition was garbage and when he finally started fighting quality fighters he barely ever won.