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Wednesday Morning MMA Link Club: Is It the Shoes?

(Cain Velasquez’s new Lugz commercial. Yeah, he smashed that. Props: YouTube.com/MMAFightClub)
Some selected highlights from our friends around the MMA blogosphere. E-mail [email protected] for details on how your site can join the MMA Link …

(Cain Velasquez‘s new Lugz commercial. Yeah, he smashed that. Props: YouTube.com/MMAFightClub)

Some selected highlights from our friends around the MMA blogosphere. E-mail [email protected] for details on how your site can join the MMA Link Club…

– Punch Drunk Preview: WEC 50 (Heavy.com/MMA)

– Cro Cop Says He’s Not Ready for UFC 119 but Still Guarantees a First Round Knockout (MiddleEasy)

– Backstage: Ariel Helwani vs. Ed Soares (MMA Fighting)

– Total Fighter Payroll for Strikeforce Challengers Phoenix: $53,250 (MMA Convert)

– 10 Taekwondo Knockouts That Will Blow Your Mind (MMA Scraps)

– Shane Carwin still silent on steroid connection; media as well (Watch Kalib Run)

– Pettis: ‘Roller Doesn’t Want Any Part of My Stand-up’ at WEC 50 (Versus MMA Beat)

– Chael Sonnen Syndrome: Urijah Faber trash-talking his way to the WEC Bantamweight Title shot? (LowKick)

– Rafael Cavalcante: “I have been working hard for not just this fight, but for my dream, every day for six years.” (Five Ounces of Pain)

– Strikeforce Houston: Noons & Gurgel on Standing and Banging for a Title Shot (FIGHT! Magazine)

Reminder: WEC 50: Cruz vs. Benavidez Weigh-Ins Live Right Here at 7:00pm ET

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With all of the media hype surrounding Saturday night”s Strikeforce: Houston event and UFC 118 the following weekend, it’s no wonder that a lot of people have forgotten that we have a mid-week WEC event tomorrow night.
W…

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With all of the media hype surrounding Saturday night”s Strikeforce: Houston event and UFC 118 the following weekend, it’s no wonder that a lot of people have forgotten that we have a mid-week WEC event tomorrow night.

WEC 50 goes down Wednesday night in Las Vegas and will feature a main event championship rematch between the promotion’s bantamweight kingpin Dominick Cruz and Joseph Benavidez. Former WEC featherweight champ Urijah Faber was supposed to make his WEC bantamweight debut opposite Takeya Mizugaki on the card, but he had his head kicked off by Kenny Powers and had to pull out due to the injury.

Here’s the card for the event, which boasts a pretty solid line-up of up-and-comers and could produce some great scraps reminiscent of the much lauded Leonard Garcia vs. Chan Sung Jung WEC 48 fight, so it’s definitely worth tuning in. What else do you have to do on a Wednesday night?

WEC 50
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The Pearl at The Palms
Las Vegas, Nevada

Main Card
Bantamweight Championship Bout
Dominick Cruz vs. Joseph Benavidez
Lightweight bout: Shane Roller vs. Anthony Pettis
Featherweight bout: Cub Swanson vs. Chad Mendes
Bantamweight bout: Scott Jorgensen vs. Brad Pickett
Lightweight bout: Bart Palaszewski vs. Zach Micklewright

Non-Televised Preliminary Card
Anthony Njokuani vs. Maciej Jewtuszko
Javier Vazquez vs. Mackens Semerzier
Ricardo Lamas vs. Dave Jansen
Fredson Paixão vs. Bryan Caraway
Danny Castillo vs. Dustin Poirier

The weigh-ins for the event take place tonight at 7:00pm ET and can be seen right here after the jump.

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Quite Possibly the Greatest Shoe Commercial You’ll Ever See

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If you told me that Urijah Faber would be part of one of the best shoe commercials I’d ever see and that the shoes the ad was promoting would be K-Swiss, I’d likely just laugh until things got very uncomfortable for both …

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If you told me that Urijah Faber would be part of one of the best shoe commercials I’d ever see and that the shoes the ad was promoting would be K-Swiss, I’d likely just laugh until things got very uncomfortable for both of us, before walking away.

Well, I’m a big enough man to admit when I’m wrong, like when I said Vladimir Matyushenko had a good chance at beating Jon Jones. Only this time, I don’t feel bad about being wrong. Maybe it has something to do with Faber’s decapitated melon, with the California Kid headband still attached, being booted out of the cage by Kenny Powers.

Whatever it was, this commercial was pure win from start to finish.

K-Swiss Acquires Form Athletics

Filed under: NewsJust seven months after its official launch and less than a year in operation, Form Athletics has been acquired by sneaker giant K-Swiss.

Form Athletics is an athletic apparel company based in Laguna Beach, Calif. co-founded by former…

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Just seven months after its official launch and less than a year in operation, Form Athletics has been acquired by sneaker giant K-Swiss.

Form Athletics is an athletic apparel company based in Laguna Beach, Calif. co-founded by former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber and is most visible in the MMA scene through Faber’s involvement with the brand.

Urijah Faber Forced Off WEC 50 With Training Injury

Filed under: WEC, NewsWEC star Urijah Faber, who was scheduled to fight Takeya Mizugaki on Aug. 18 at WEC 50, has been injured in training and has pulled out of the fight.

Faber delivered the news via Twitter on Friday, saying, “Been quit (sic) the l…

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WEC star Urijah Faber, who was scheduled to fight Takeya Mizugaki on Aug. 18 at WEC 50, has been injured in training and has pulled out of the fight.

Faber delivered the news via Twitter on Friday, saying, “Been quit (sic) the last few days, i was injured in pract on Mon. Just got results Im Out on Aug 18th. Not 2 happy.”

He followed that up by telling Versus.com the injury was to his lower body and that he is “going to come back as soon as possible.”

Urijah Faber Out of WEC 50 With Knee Injury

(Damn, as if the constipation wasn’t bad enough…)
Urijah Faber’s scheduled bantamweight debut against Takeya Mizugaki at WEC 50 (August 18th, Las Vegas) has been canceled, due to a knee injury that Faber suffered in training on Monday. The Californ…

Urijah Faber WEC injury
(Damn, as if the constipation wasn’t bad enough…)

Urijah Faber‘s scheduled bantamweight debut against Takeya Mizugaki at WEC 50 (August 18th, Las Vegas) has been canceled, due to a knee injury that Faber suffered in training on Monday. The California Kid confirmed the bad news via Twitter earlier today, and told Heavy: "Somebody was going to take me down during training. They swept me and I heard a loud pop. They said it would be six weeks before I could train again, but it may heal even faster."

According to MMAJunkie, a replacement will not be found for Mizugaki. Tough break, but on the bright side, it’s a miracle that Faber can even walk at all at this point. WEC 50 will be headlined by the bantamweight title (re-)match between Dominick Cruz and Joseph Benavidez.