Changes To Sunday’s WEC 38 Lineup; Additions To WEC 39, WEC 40
Jeff Curran
Injuries have forced two lineup changes for WEC 38 as featherweight Rolando Perez has been tapped to replace Fredson Paixao on the evening’s main card against Jose Aldo and lightweight Ben Henderson will meet Anthony Njokuani in place of Ed Ratcliff on the unaired preliminary card.
WEC 38 “Varner vs. Cerrone” takes place this Sunday at the San Diego Sports Arena in San Diego, California. The event, which airs live on Versus, features lightweight title-holder Jamie Varner against Donald Cerrone and a rematch between top featherweights Urijah Faber and Jens Pulver
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In other WEC news, several upcoming bouts have been reported in recent days:
– Lightweights Bart Palaszewski and Richard Crunkilton will square off at WEC 39 on March 1st in Corpus Christi, Texas. Two title bouts will headline WEC 39 as welterweight champion Carlos Condit battles Brock Larson and featherweight champ Mike Brown defends his title for the first time against Leonard Garcia.
– Bantamweight contenders Jeff Curran and Joseph Benavidez will clash at WEC 40, which is slated to take place on April 5th in Chicago. The event will also feature bantamweight title-holder Miguel Torres against challenger Brian Bowles.
Tags: Anthony Njokuani, Bart Palaszewski, Ben Henderson, ed ratcliff, Fredson Paixao, Jeff Curran, jose aldo, Joseph Benavidez, richard crunkilton, Rolando Perez
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Looks like they’ll be stepping up event frequency, that’s good.
Oh, and for the trolls… “Another ZUFFA card were their changin it at teh last minute!!1 I new they would do this, WEC is gettingg as bad as UFC!!1!1 wut a ripof!1″
Got so carried away with making fun of trolls I forgot to mention I’m looking forward to the fights Sunday, and the announced fights for later sound good too.
Justin- ahaha was going to say that doesn’t sound like you at all. Should be a fun weekend of fights.
Damn it, stop stealing my lines.
FINALLY A TOP RATED MMA PROMOTION COMES BACK TO TEXAS! I’ve been waiting for this since UFC 69 came to H-Town
really looking forward to wec 39(not that that makes a difference to any event). looks to be a good weekend we have coming up
Kris,
I really love what you did to the site. Major props to everyone at MMAFrenzy.com for all the improvements to the site since I’ve been posting. Keep up the great work.
agreed
Yeah, I updated the capture on my fast dial today with the new layout from the old…looks much better.
Thanks everyone. The new design will allow us to release a lot of new features in the coming weeks. Stay tuned…
keep up the hard and good work!
Thanks Chris.
JUST BOUGHT MY TICKETS FOR WEC 39, LOWER LEVEL SEATS FOR 50 BUCKS…WHAT A BARGAIN!@ Oh on the current subject, yea Kris this site looks awesome, gets better everyday…i love you guys (tear, tear)
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^ agreed (with love)
Can’t wait to see the belt around The Cowboy’s waist.
The WEC is the bomb…sum of there LW fighters are awsome to watch Condit is the sht can hang with any 170 in the world {GSP} is a exception because he’s a freak… And cowboy go get um man love watching that kid fight….. L Garcia stomp mike brown in the dirt and get that title!!!