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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 [...]

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 Seguin: $4,000
Olaf Alfonso: $4,000
Mike French: $3,000
Fernando Gonzalez: $3,000
Kyle Jensen: $3,000
Blas Avena: $2,500
Mike [...]

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 [...]

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 here.

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. [...]

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 [...]