World Extreme Cagefighting made their live television debut on the Versus network last night and overall I thought the show was very good. The production value was excellent and for a first time viewer to the sport, I think that the initial impression was top notch. Pros Pace of the fights – All of the [...]

Paulo Filho, the Pride Bushido “legend” and a member of Brazilian’s Top Team, announced yesterday with Tatame magazine that he is close to signing a deal with the WEC. This will be an excellent signing for the WEC and its a great pickup for the organization. Filho, who is currently 14-0, is a submission specialist [...]

When Zuffa, LLC, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championships, purchased the WEC earlier this year, it was announced that a cable television deal had been signed with the Versus network. It appears now that the first WEC events will start appearing on the Versus network starting with a WEC Live even on June [...]

No this isn’t a post about Georges St. Pierre, rather an update on a few of his fellow Canadian fighters. The FightNetwork reported yesterday on the status of Canadian fighters Mark Hominick and Sam Stout. According the the FightNetwork report, Mark Hominick will transition forfeit the remainder of his current UFC contract and instead transition [...]

Zuffa has announced the full fight card for the World Extreme Cagefighting event scheduled for March 24 in Las Vegas. WEC 26 will include three title fights, one each in the bantamweight, featherweight, and welterweight divisions. In the featherweight division, WEC champion Urijah Faber will faced undefeated Dominic Cruz. The vacant WEC bantamweight title will [...]

The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released the fighter salary payouts from this past weekends WEC event held in Las Vegas. Rob McCullough: $20,000 Urijah Faber: $10,000 Kit Cope: $5,000 Joe Pearson: $4,000 John Alessio: $10,000 Rich Crunkilton: $10,000 Alex Karalexis: $8,000 Logan Clark: $8,000 Carlos Condit: $8,000 Antonio Banuelos: $6,000 Brian Gassaway: $4,000 Brendan [...]

The first “Zuffa-run” WEC event will be held this coming Saturday night in Las Vegas, and the card is headlined with a matchup featuring “Razor” Rob McCullough and Kit Cope as well as “The California Kid” Urijah Faber vs. Joe Pearson. For those of you with digital cable or satellite television, you should be able [...]

I was going to go through the full Dana White interview in the Orange County Register myself and post a breakdown of the highlights, but a few other guys have already done a great job at it. Zach Arnold at Fight Opinion gives his analysis here. Scott White at MMA on Tap gives his breakdown [...]

The WEC has officially announced their fight card for this Friday nights WEC: Hitman show. All proceeds from the show will go to the Ryan Bennett Memorial Fund. The 12 bout card begins at 5:30 p.m., with the event’s first five fights airing live on HD NET, where Bennett worked as a play-by-play commentator. The [...]

Reports are now surfacing that WEC veteran Justin Levens has reached a deal with the UFC to replace the injured Jeremy Horn at UFC 59. Horn had to withdraw this past week due to a back injury, leaving Evan Tanner without an opponent for the April 15th event. Justin Levens currently has a record of [...]

Mixed Martial Arts is becoming more popular every day with events taking place almost every weekend so far in 2006. The next few upcoming weeks are no exception with a steady lineup of good MMA promotions taking place. Tonight, March 17, WEC 19 – “Undisputed” takes place in Lemoore California. Gabe Ruediger will face Hermes [...]

The UFC finally officially announced today the matchup of David Terrell vs Scott Smith at UFC 59 in California. This matchup has been rumored and talked about for about two weeks now, but was never verified. You will probably remember David Terrell from his quick knockout victory over Matt Lindland, and more recently, his loss [...]