The WEC’s first pay-per-view effort now has its first 135-pound match-up. Bantamweight fighters Antonio Banuelos and Damacio Page have signed to fight at “WEC 48: Aldo vs. Faber.” MMAjunkie.com confirmed the fight Wednesday with sources close to the event. WEC 48 takes place April 24 at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, Calif., and features two title matches: [...]
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Yee-haw! WEC Lightweight Champion Ben Henderson will defend his 155-pound title for the first time against the man he defeated, Donald Cerrone, to earn his shot at unifying the title in the first place. Henderson and Cerrone will collide in a rematch at WEC 48, which is scheduled for the Arco Arena in Sacramento, Calif., on April [...] As expected World Extreme Cagefighting is headed to pay-per-view. The organization today announced via the AP that WEC 48, which retails for $44.99, takes place Saturday, April 24, at ARCO Arena in Sacramento, Calif. Featured bouts include WEC featherweight champ Jose Aldo vs. Urijah Faber, lightweight champion Benson Henderson vs. Donald Cerrone, and former champ Mike Brown [...] When Ben Henderson submitted Jamie Varner at this past Sunday’s WEC 46 event in Sacramento, Calif., it’s probably a safe assumption that the new undisputed lightweight champion was the most thrilled among the 10,000-plus people gathered in the ARCO Arena about the result. But Army veteran Dominque Haynes was probably a close second. “Ben is my favorite [...] WEC 46 is an event featuring the comeback of a champion, the return of a legend, the chance for a contender to rise, and the opportunity for an interim champion to declare legitimacy in a tough lightweight division. Today, Jan. 8, the WEC conducted a press conference for its first card of 2010, featuring four fighters, [...] Props: Curtis and Kyle Quoteworthy: “It should be called The Urijah Faber Show instead of World Extreme Cagefighting. They keep giving Faber all of the big promotional deals, in fact they just hooked him up with Amp Energy Drink. Amp just became the official energy drink of the WEC. I called the WEC regarding Amp about two [...] “Ben Henderson … To weather that storm and to get out of some of the submissions that he did (against Donald Cerrone), that was super-impressive man. He’s got like a rubber neck, and that’s definitely something that I had to think about in this training camp. Do I wanna go for some of those chokes? [...] LAS VEGAS – In the build-up to his WEC 45 main-event bout with Ed Ratcliff, WEC lightweight contender Donald Cerrone made it perfectly clear that he was hoping to break recent form and start his fight quickly. Cerrone did exactly that on Saturday night at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, but [...] LAS VEGAS – After suffering three direct shots to the groin in the first two rounds of WEC 45’s main event, lightweight Ed Ratcliff (7-2 And really, who could blame him? But at the evening’s post-event press conference [...] Frank Curreri, WEC – Yet again, Donald Cerrone proved Saturday night that no matter who the opponent, he is the king of the Fight of the Night award. The lightweight impresario dug himself a deep hole against top contender Ed Ratcliff and was headed toward possible defeat (in his own mind at least) as the [...] |
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