UFC Fight Night 104 results: Tecia Torres makes easy work of Bec Rawlings in rematch

HOUSTON – Bec Rawlings weighed in heavy, and showed up to fight with a purple pom-pom on her head that made her tough to miss. Tecia Torres came in on weight and with some nifty footwork that made her hard to find.

The result was a one-sided win for Torres (8-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) who used a hit-and-run strategy on the feet to frustrate Rawlings (7-6 MMA, 2-3 UFC) into making mistakes on the mat, resulting in unanimous decision victory with a clean sweep on the judges’ scorecards.

The catchweight bout (Rawlings missed the strawweight limit) was part of the preliminary card of today’s UFC Fight Night 104 event at Toyota Center in Houston. It aired on FS1 following additional prelims on UFC Fight Pass and ahead of a main card on FS1.

Torres was the visibly smaller fighter in this match-up, but Rawlings’ size advantage seemed to grant her no advantages whatsoever. She was too slow to catch up to the fleet-footed Torres in the standup exchanges, and not strong enough to dominate her in the clinch or on the floor.

After Torres spent much of the first round battering Rawlings’ lead leg with kicks, Rawlings came out looking to brawl in the second. The problem was that she couldn’t seem to catch up to Torres with her straight-ahead punching attack, and often succeeded only in running face-first into punch combos. After an initially successful takedown attempt, Rawlings soon found herself trying to shed Torres off her back, stuck on defense once again.

That pattern continued in the third, with Torres sticking and moving on the feet, then winning the grappling exchanges on the mat. Once the fight went to the judges, it was no surprise that all three gave Torres every round, handing her the unanimous decision with scores of 30-27 across the board.

Torres’ victory gets her back in the win column for the first time since her unanimous decision loss to Rose Namajunas last April. Rawlings has now lost two straight.

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