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WEC 12/3 Las Vegas fight card line-up
By Zach Arnold | December 3, 2008
- WEC Bantamweight Title match: Miguel Torres vs. Manny Tapia
- Brian Bowles vs. Will Ribeiro
- Waggney Fabiano vs. Akitoshi Tamura
- Joseph Benavidez vs. Danny Martinez
Undercard
- Johny Hendricks vs. Justin Haskins
- Mark Munoz vs. Ricardo Barros
- Bias Avena vs. Kevin Knabjian
- Diego Nunes vs. Cole Province
- Bart Palaszewski vs. Alex Karalexis
- Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Cub Swanson
- Shane Roller vs. Mike Budnik
You may recognize the name Joseph Benavidez because he was supposed to face Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto last July in the DREAM ring, but Yamamoto canceled due to claiming a knee injury. Benavidez is a highly-regarded prospect who trains with Urijah Faber in Sacramento.
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“You may recognize the name Joseph Benavidez because he was supposed to face Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto last July in the DREAM ring, but Yamamoto canceled due to claiming a knee injury.”
‘Claiming’? Are we saying that Yamamoto is ducking a fight now?
I’m not trying to read too much into the statement, just clarifying.
Main card is solid. I love that WEC cards are on Wednesdays too.
I see this as more of a case of their being no athletic commission or extensive medicals required, therefore the only evidence we have of a knee injury is that it was “claimed”.
ya i noticed the whole “claiming” part too. It was confirmed he had ACL surgery, so it sounds like Zack has a bias against everything japanese now a days
I thought they announced Johnny Hendricks/Justin Haskins fight to be televised?
The card is pretty decent as far as quality of fight goes for TV. Undercard is a little mediocre even for WEC. I don’t see how Tapia beats Torres though.
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I’m looking forward to this card very much. However, it’s a shame that it was demoted again from the 9:00 PM start time to the 8:00 PM start time. Couldn’t they see this coming with TUF airing at 10:00 PM? And if so, why on earth did they advertise a 9:00 PM start time for the 12/3 WEC show during the live broadcast of the 11/5 WEC show?
Zach, the editorial that you wrote on MMAMemories.com about the MMA media was excellent. You should link to that article in a post on FightOpinion instead of just having it be one of the sidebar links.
WEC 37 is a solid card, top to bottom. Some very good matchups even on the undercard, damn shame we only get 2 hours.