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A late change has been made to Thursday’s “WEC 51: Aldo vs. Gamburyan” fight card, as Chinese prospect Tiequan Zhang has another new opponent for his WEC debut in fellow lightweight newcomer Pablo Garza, who replaces Jason Reinhardt.
Zhang (11-0) has earned first-round stoppages in all 11 of his career bouts, while Garza (9-0), who was eliminated on The Ultimate Fighter 12 by Michael Johnson, remained unbeaten with a third-round TKO earlier this month.
The WEC 51 fight card is headlined by featherweight champ Jose Aldo vs. Manny Gamburyan
Stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com for complete WEC 51 coverage, including WEC 51 results this Thursday, and check out Garza’s bout with Johnson below.
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This match should be quick and explosive, im pumped for this card and gonna go with “The Mongolian Wolf” on this one.
Yeah this should be a sick card, I am definitely more pumped for this than the last UFC ppv. People who complained about the last UfC event and only watch UFC are missing some great fights, I love watching the lighter weight classes. You may not get as many knock outs but the fights tend to be very exciting. I am looking forward to all the fights, Roop vs Jung, Garcia vs Hominick, Varner vs Cerrone, damn even a past champion (Brown) is on the undercard.
I live in Canada and usually we get the WEC events on Sportsnet, I am at work and I haven’t checked my cable to see if it’s being shown or not. Anyone aware if this is going to be on tv up here or not?
It is on “the Score”, not Sportnet. Thurs night 11pm est.
Thanks, I think I knew that, just a long day yesterday, I checked when I went home and set it to record. I’ll have to stay way from this site, and any of the mma shows I watch until after Friday night when I get a chance to watch it. 11pm on a weekday is a little too late for me, especially when my day starts at 5:45am.
Thanks again Canadian Bacon!
It’ll do the WEC some good if they “inherit” some 155ers from this year’s TUF IMO…
It kinda says something about how Zuffa views the WEC lightweight division if they take a guy who couldn’t hack it on TUF and plug him right into the WEC.
@justin – This is true.
I didn’t think of it in those terms, I was thinking more of the cross-promotional WEC-TUF/UFC aspect, but you’re 100% right.
So maybe this is more indicative of the end being near [or nearer] for the WEC 155ers?
Or even the WEC in general, as it will most likely be eventually folded into the UFC?
Which would suck out loud for most of the WEC 155ers, because from what I’ve seen only Ben Henderson has a better-than-average chance of getting any traction in the Octagon…