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WEC 51 “Aldo vs. Gamburyan” is set to take place on Thursday, Sept 30th from the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield, CO and Versus will air the program live starting at 9 PM ET. The card will feature featherweight champion Jose Aldo vs. Manvel Gamburyan and The MMA News will carry live coverage […]
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WEC 51 “Aldo vs. Gamburyan” is set to take place on Thursday, Sept 30th from the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield, CO and Versus will air the program live starting at 9 PM ET. The card will feature featherweight champion Jose Aldo vs. Manvel Gamburyan and The MMA News will carry live coverage for the event.
The World Extreme Cagefighting’s most popular fighter, “The California Kid” Urijah Faber (23-4) was hoping to make his return to the cage in September but is now looking at the month of November instead.
Faber had been scheduled to face Takeya Mizugaki at WEC 50 on Aug. 18, it would have marked a return for the […]
The World Extreme Cagefighting’s most popular fighter, “The California Kid” Urijah Faber (23-4) was hoping to make his return to the cage in September but is now looking at the month of November instead.
Faber had been scheduled to face Takeya Mizugaki at WEC 50 on Aug. 18, it would have marked a return for the fighter at 135 pounds, but an injury forced him to pull out.
“The California Kid” was a guest on Sherdog.com’s radio show recently speaking about the injury, his recovery, and more.
“I’m back to full-on training now. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to fight in November. I told (WEC officials) I could go in September when I found out I’d be out four to six weeks. I wanted to be on the Sept. 30 card, but I got pushed back to November.”
“I was doing some kickboxing and takedowns and my leg got yanked from the outside in,” said Faber. “They said it was an atypical injury to my MCL. My MCL kind of peeled away from the bone. They told me I wouldn’t need surgery, but I’d be out four to six weeks. I was able to do some stuff without twisting it, so I was able to work out, do physical therapy and stay in shape. It’s been six weeks since I hurt my leg, this was supposed to be a six-week injury and I had my first full week of practice last week.”
“Where I’m at right now, I’m just having a great time and fighting my heart out. I just want fights that make sense. (A fight with Miguel) Torres would be bigger for me right now than (fighting WEC bantamweight champion Dominick) Cruz. There are all kinds of fights I can do right now and can go back up to 145. I feel like I can do well against most anybody at 145 and I’d be willing to go to 155 at some point.”
Faber is just 2-3 in his past three fights, three of which were WEC featherweight title fights, having lost his last bout to current featherweight champ José Aldo in the main event of WEC’s first ever pay-per-view show in April of this year.
Okay, we’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, if you don’t watch the WEC simply because it doesn’t have the letters U, F or C, or even worse, because you ‘only like watching the bigger dudes’, you sir or madam are truly deserving of a rather cruel insult. Someone else can take care of […]
Okay, we’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, if you don’t watch the WEC simply because it doesn’t have the letters U, F or C, or even worse, because you ‘only like watching the bigger dudes’, you sir or madam are truly deserving of a rather cruel insult. Someone else can take care of our dirty work. If you watched WEC 50 last night then you know that the card once again offered not one, but several, ‘fight of the night’ quality bouts.
As expected, the bantamweight title fight between champion Dominick Cruz and challenger Joseph Benavidez didn’t disappoint, and was chalk full of entertaining violence. Although it was a pretty close fight and Benavidez threw everything he had at Cruz, it was pretty clear by the fight’s end that the champ should retain the belt. Of course, this is MMA, and what one judge thinks constitutes winning a fight might be vastly different than what 90% of the population thinks. So when it was announced that Cruz had won, but by Split Decision, what did the 16-1 fighter think? (Thanks to MMA Junkie for the quotes)
“In my humble opinion, I thought I won all the rounds,” Cruz told MMAjunkie.com following the fight. “I thought I won it pretty unanimously. That’s all I can say. I thought I won it.”….”I think that the crowd has a big part to play in the judges’ opinion sometimes,” Cruz said. “Also, he caught me with a real slick knee up against the cage that made me bleed real bad. I would assume the blood could have swayed the judges as well.”
In case you’re wondering, it was Nelson “Doc” Hamilton that had Benavidez winning the fight.
HT: Heavy.com
Earning “Fight Night” honors from Wednesday nights “WEC 50: Cruz vs. Benavidez” event were Scott Jorgensen, Brad Pickett, Maciej Jewtuszko, and Anthony Pettis.
It was announced during the events post-fight press conference that all of the “Fight Night” winners would be given a $10,000 bonuses for their efforts.
Both Scott Jorgensen and Brad Pickett picked […]
Earning “Fight Night” honors from Wednesday nights “WEC 50: Cruz vs. Benavidez” event were Scott Jorgensen, Brad Pickett, Maciej Jewtuszko, and Anthony Pettis.
It was announced during the events post-fight press conference that all of the “Fight Night” winners would be given a $10,000 bonuses for their efforts.
Both Scott Jorgensen and Brad Pickett picked up the “Fight of the Night” honor for their three round scrap. Jorgensen earned the judges decision by scores of (30-27, 30-27, 30-27) to earn the unanimous decision.
Maciej Jewtuszko, who faced Anthony Njokuani in the last bout of the preliminary card, earned a quick TKO win by ending the fight in the first round at 1:35 to earn the “Knockout of the Night” honor.
Anthony Pettis was given the “Submission of the Night” after fighting co-main event opponent Shane Roller for almost three rounds before securing a triangle choke in the dying seconds to end the fight at 4:51.
Also of note last night was the WEC/AMP Energy contest, “Hometown Takedown” which had fans voting to choose one of 30 cities for a December WEC event. Fans chose the city of Phoenix, which beat out runner up cities Milwaukee and Nashville, Tenn.
The event in Phoenix is expected to be WEC 54 and takes place at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, Ariz.
WEC 50 was held at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas with the main card airing live on the Versus network.
Filed under: WEC, NewsThe WEC will make its first trip to Phoenix in December, the promotion announced during the Versus broadcast of WEC 50 on Wednesday night.
In what was a first for the company, the WEC partnered with AMP Energy for a promotion – …
The WEC will make its first trip to Phoenix in December, the promotion announced during the Versus broadcast of WEC 50 on Wednesday night.
In what was a first for the company, the WEC partnered with AMP Energy for a promotion – the “Hometown Takedown Contest” – that allowed fans to vote for the location from a list of 30 cities across the country.
Phoenix will host what is expected to be WEC 54 on Dec. 16 at the Jobing.com Arena in suburban Glendale, home to the NHL’s Phoenix Coyotes. Milwaukee and Nashville were the runners-up