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Posted by Dave Walsh on 4th August 2008
Tonight is WEC. Three title fights, Carlos f’n Condit and a bunch of debuts. Should be an awesome show, so join us for our live coverage of WEC! Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Jonathan Snowden on 2nd August 2008
Dave Walsh, Marc Staehling, Chris Henderson, and Dave Walsh’s dog bring you a preview of tomorrow’s WEC show.
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Posted by Marc Staehling on 4th June 2008
Unlike its sister-promotion the UFC, the WEC has no on-demand, on-line video service where preliminary fights that don’t make air, are made available to the public. What they do have, is a contract with Versus not only for live events, but for WEC WrekCage, where previously un-televised bouts are seen for the first time. This Wednesday marks the debut of a new three-episode run.
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Posted by Iain Liddle on 2nd June 2008
By Andrew Rosebrock
Thoughts from the balcony (literally, our seats were in the very first row of the upper tier):
Unfortunately I missed the first two fights, which included sadly Pequeno Nogueira’s debut. Perhaps that’s just as well, as the clips shown later in the night made it look like Pequeno took a pretty bad beating.
My friend Jameson and I made it to our seats just in time to catch the beginning of Alex Serdyukov vs. Luis Sapo.
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Posted by Dave Walsh on 2nd June 2008
So, WEC is upon us now, and it is a great card with two huge title fights live from the Arco Arena on VERSUS. After EXC last night this is like dying and going to heaven. Join us on AIM @ FaberByHairProduct.
Dave Walsh and Alan Conceicao will be blogging live for your pleasure (or displeasure) tonight.
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Posted by Dave Walsh on 1st June 2008
By Dave Walsh
In just a few hours Jens Pulver takes on Urijah Faber in a fight that honestly, I’ve been looking forward to for over a year now. While last night was a night of sloppy fighting with poor stoppages and very little displayed in the way of skill, tonight fight fans will be treated to a great looking card. Topping off the card are two title fights; as the 135lbs and 145lbs titles will be defended respectively. While there is excitement over Miguel Torres making his defense of the Bandtamweight (135lbs) title, the big one is Featherweight (145lbs). Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Iain Liddle on 1st June 2008
So the crazy MMA calendar has thrown up two high-profile events in two days and as such you’re all being treated to two liveblogs in two days.
Join us from near fight time for live results and thoughts on all the main card action.
In the meantime, go and read significantly fewer headlines than yesterday relating to tonigh’s event. You can also watch some highlights from the post-fight Elite XC press conference where there was an altercation between a very smart man in Brett Rogers and a not so smart in Kimbo.
Picture credit goes to Combat Lifestyle.
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Posted by Kendall Shields on 27th March 2008
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In a tragic turn, Paulo Filho’s enthusiasm for drugs has taken from me the only fight on this card where I knew both fighters. I’m pretty sure I’ve watched every WEC card on Vs., but I have some kind of a mental block that prevents me from remembering pretty much anything that has happened on any of them, excluding Urijah Faber’s matches, Filho vs. Sonnen, and the smooth, smooth voice of Joe Martinez, so all of these fighters are new to me each time. It’s an Oliver Sacks situation.
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Posted by Bill Thompson on 23rd March 2008
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By: Bill Thompson
We are just a few days away from what will be yet another, at the very least, good card from World Extreme Cagefighting, WEC. On the larger MMA scale of fans drawn and monies earned the WEC has yet to become a player, but on the more important scale of fights waged and action provided the WEC has already skyrocketed to the top of the MMA ranks in my book. There is no denying that organizations like the UFC and Pride can always lay claim to having great fighters, important cards, and a high standing within the minds of MMA fans. However for a lot of fans, myself included, some smaller organizations are able to draw you in with great talent, good matchmaking, and an intangible sense of belonging or an almost clique like nature that isn’t found in the bigger orgs. For the longest time my number one MMA organization in the world was Shooto. Shooto could lay claim to putting on exciting cards with great fights, and a great combination of known and up and coming talent. Shooto also left you with that feeling that you were involved in something big that not everyone else was in on and as a result it was something special. I lost that feeling with Shooto a few years ago as a rapid loss of talent led to its fall from the top of the ranks in my eyes. Now a new promotion has come along to once again give me that old Shooto feel of yore, and that is the WEC. With their focus on the lower weight classes, their action packed cards and their nice mixture of young and veteran talent they are currently providing the best action in MMA. However there are some decisions that need to be made about the WEC by their parent company, Zuffa. Is the WEC its own separate entity or is it simply a feeder system for the UFC?
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Posted by Marc Staehling on 19th March 2008
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With the recent confirmation of the North American Debuts of Korea’s Dong Hyun Kim, and Japan’s Yoshiyuki Yoshida at UFC 84, I thought it would be appropriate to take a glance at last few years of international(Asian) acquisitions made by the UFC and WEC.
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