A featherweight bout between Leonard Garcia (13-5 MMA, 3-2 WEC) and Diego Nunes (13-1 MMA, 2-1 WEC) is now official for next month’s “WEC 47: Bowles vs. Cruz” event.
MMAjunkie.com first reported the bout in January, and WEC officials have since confirmed it’ll be part of the night’s un-aired preliminary card.
WEC 47 takes place March 6 [...]
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 [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – With the sting of a November 2009 loss still fresh in his mind, former WEC featherweight champ Mike Brown (23-5 MMA, 5-1 WEC)
begged the promotion’s brass to let him fight at Sunday’s WEC 46 event.
The WEC granted his wish, and Brown made quick work of newcomer Anthony Morrison (15-8 MMA, 0-1 WEC) [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – It’s often said that champions are defined by how they respond to losses.
For former WEC featherweight champ Mike Brown (22-5 MMA, 4-1 WEC), the response was simple: Get back in the cage.
“I was down for like 24 hours,” Brown recently told MMAjunkie.com. “Then I was like, ‘Man, I’ve got to get beyond [...]
Former WEC featherweight champ Mike Brown (22-5 MMA, 4-1 WEC) returns to action in January against WEC newcomer Anthony Morrison (10-7 MMA, 0-0 WEC).
The WEC today announced the bout, which will take place on the main
card of “WEC 46: Varner vs. Henderson” on Jan. 10 at ARCO Arena in Sacramento, Calif.
Brown and Morrison join a [...]
After defeating John Franchi at November’s WEC 44 event, Cub Swanson (14-3 MMA, 4-2 WEC) has a simple message for new featherweight champ
Jose Aldo.
“I don’t fear him at all,” Swanson recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio. “I’d love to fight him again.”
In their previous engagement this past June, Aldo knocked out Swanson with a brutal flying knee [...]
New WEC featherweight champ Jose Aldo (16-1 MMA, 6-0 WEC) is proudly carrying his new title belt back home to Brazil, but a few items brought to the cage with him on the night he won the 145-pound title can be delivered to your house.
And it’s for a good cause.
Aldo and his Nova Uniao team [...]
Former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber (22-3 MMA, 7-2 WEC) has ended all speculation regarding a potential move to a competing organization and has signed a new multi-year, multi-fight deal with the WEC.
WEC general manager Reed Harris announced the new deal while a guest on today’s edition of MMAjunkie.com Radio. Harris called in from San [...]
Lemoore, Calif. — The Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino shocked the mixed martial arts community in Central California and throughout the state on Wednesday announcing that it had teamed with Ted Williams and Gladiator Challenge to develop a new promotion titled Tachi Palace Fights.
Tachi Palace Fights will debut on Thursday, October 8 at the Tachi [...]