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Versus TV: WEC 4/5 Chicago fight card

By Zach Arnold | April 5, 2009

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Event results: AOL Fanhouse | Sherdog | MMA Weekly | MMA Torch | MMA Junkie | Bloody Elbow | Sports Illustrated | MMA For Real | MMA Convert

The main event is worth going out of your way to watch (between Miguel Torres and Takeuya Mizugaki). The judges had it 49-46 and 48-47 in favor of Miguel Torres at the end.

Update: Sports Navigator (Yahoo Japan) has an article on the WEC show — with an English title, Why no TV? — in regards to Akitoshi Tamura, Wagnney Fabiano, or Fredson Paixao fighting in dark matches.

Venue: UIC Pavilion, Network: Versus
Air time: Sunday (4/5), 9 PM EST

Dark matches

Main card

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8 Responses to “Versus TV: WEC 4/5 Chicago fight card”

  1. 45 Huddle says:

    I am really looking forward to this. Most interesting fight card of the month.

    I’m picking Mizugaki for the upset!!

  2. Jeff says:

    Zach,

    I like how the weight classes change when you go from the prelims to the main card haha

  3. 45 Huddle says:

    TUF & UFC Fight Night got good ratings.

    I think this season of TUF is going to do well in the ratings. The USA vs. UK concept is interesting. I know besides the fights I have had little interest in the show. This season feels different.

  4. skwirrl says:

    The only reason TUF got good ratings was it was following a fight night and it was one of the first two episodes of the season with all fights. In 2 weeks no one will care anymore.

    On to the WEC card. Great top 2 fights but why in the hell is Assuncao vs Massouh on the main card? Assuncao is a decent fighter but he’s fighting a guy in Massouh thats lost to everybody above complete can level he’s ever faced. But even more bizarre is Roller vs Benson (and Hedges) Henderson. The only scalp on either guys record is Diego Sariava by Henderson. This is some sort of sick post april fools joke having this crap on over Waggney vs Paixao or Tamura vs Tapia. Seriously WTF!?!? Fuck ZUFFA!!! Replacing WEC’s matchmaker using the excuse of not having Cerrone vs McCullough on the main card and now they do this horseshit?

  5. 45 Huddle says:

    The last few TUF Debuts were right after a UFC Fight Night. And the last few had a lot of fights at the beginning. Not much has changed, except for the ratings.

    As for Fabiano…. He is on the undercard because his last fight was boring. No doubt about it.

  6. Oops! says:

    I’m curious to see if Ivan Lopez might upset Dominick Cruz. Very excited for Miguel Torres and Curran/Benavidez fight. love the WEC.

  7. Jeremy (not that Jeremy) says:

    Give Zach some slack, Featherweights and Bantamweights are confusing 🙂

  8. rainrider says:

    Torres used a lot of vaseline during the fight and it wasn’t only applied to his face.

    Why nobody in the media talks about it??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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