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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008WEC’s two most-known champions, Paulo Filho and Urijah Faber, lost Wednesday night in Florida to Chael Sonnen and Mike Brown, respectively.
Media notebook: Heat-up for tonight’s WEC event in Florida
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Randy Couture said that he hopes fighters get health insurance and retirement pensions. Didn’t he have a chance to fight for these things during his contractual dispute with UFC?
What? Paulo Filho misses weight by 7 pounds for Chael Sonnen WEC fight
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Paulo Filho missed weight for his 185-pound WEC title match against Chael Sonnen. Filho weighed in at 192 pounds.
WEC 11/5 Florida card line-up
Monday, November 3rd, 2008This Wednesday night, Urijah Faber takes on Mike Brown (American Top Team) in the main event of WEC’s latest fight card in South Florida. The show will air on The Versus Network. Jens Pulver and Leonard Garcia will also face each other on the main card.
Sengoku starts building up card for their 1/4 Saitama Super Arena event
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008Takanori Gomi vs. Satoru Kitaoka seems to be on the horizone for the next Sengoku event on January 4th at Saitama Super Arena.
Today’s chalkboard: HDNet buys IFL assets, Patry leaves TKO, WEC 11/5 Florida card
Thursday, October 30th, 2008HDNet buys out the IFL’s assets, Stephane Patry has left the TKO promotion, and WEC’s November 5th Florida event has a great line-up on the card. Plus: Satoshi Ishii to announce his entry into MMA officially and Yoshihiro Akiyama wins a Style Icon Award.
Report: WEC 9/10 event postponed until 11/5
Friday, September 5th, 2008This according to our old friend, Denny Burkholder, of CBS Sports. Report here.
Fight Opinion Radio #89: The state of MMA outside UFC
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Consider this a group therapy session, as we spend this week’s show trying to figure out what the landscape of the MMA business is outside of UFC. Warning: You may get very depressed and fast. We discuss virtually every issue on the table and also talk about which newcomers to the sport have ‘superstar’ potential […]
Report: WEC down to four weight classes
Friday, August 29th, 2008From the office of Kevin Iole: Zuffa’s decision to trim the WEC from six divisions (light heavyweight, middleweight, welterweight, lightweight, featherweight and bantamweight) to four by folding its light heavyweight and middleweight divisions into the UFC, however, will make it that much harder to fill cards. That’s particularly true given White’s plan to add pay-per-view […]
The UFC hype machine lands in Chicago
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Michael David Smith (AOL Fanhouse): Miguel Torres expects to fight Manny Tapia on 12/3, then Urijah Faber later on Sportsnet (Canada): Dana White says Anderson Silva wanted Patrick Cote next The Chicago Tribune: UFC comes to Illinois Setanta Sports (UK): Martin Kampmann says upcoming fight with Nathan Marquardt is his toughest test to date MMA […]
Carlos Condit vs. Hiromitsu Miura
Monday, August 4th, 2008If you can catch a replay of the WEC 35 show on Versus, do so. Get a DVD of the show if you have to.
WEC 35 (8/3/08) Las Vegas
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008A very, very good show tonight. More entertaining than the Elite XC show last week from Stockton, that’s for certain. Reports: USA Today | AOL Fanhouse | MMA Junkie | Bloody Elbow | MMA Frenzy | MMA on Tap | Total MMA | Pro MMA | Yahoo Sports
Media heat-up for tonight’s WEC event in Las Vegas
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008Give Zuffa credit — they have done an excellent job in heating up press coverage for tonight’s WEC event on Versus. The New York Times: 30 seconds with Brock Lesnar New York Newsday: In legalization fight, MMA has champ in corner with Melvina Lathan Charles Jay (MMA Memories): MMA adversary removed from NYSAC payroll New […]
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