World Extreme Cagefighting Releases Complete Lineup For WEC 39
Posted by Kris Karkoski on Jan 26, 2009 at 1:08 pm ET19 Comments
World Extreme Cagefighting has released the complete lineup for WEC 39: Brown vs. Garcia, which takes place on March 1st at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas.
The Versus-broadcast event features five televised main card bouts, including featherweight champion Mike Brown squaring off against Leonard Garcia for the 145-pound title and Carlos Condit defending his welterweight belt against challenger Brock Larson.
The event’s complete fight card features:
MAIN CARD (Versus – 9pm ET)
- Mike Brown vs. Leonard Garcia
WEC Featherweight Championship - Carlos Condit (c) vs. Brock Larson
WEC Welterweight Championship - Richard Crunkilton vs. Bart Palaszewski
- Marcus Hicks vs. Rob McCullough
- Johny Hendricks vs. Alex Serdyukov
PRELIMINARY CARD (Unaired)
- Marcos Galvao vs. Damacio Page
- Mike Budnik vs. John Franchi
- Justin Haskins vs. Douglas Lima
- Alex Karalexis vs. Greg McIntyre
- Phil Cardella vs. Danny Castillo
- Kenji Osawa vs. Rafael Rebello
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Excellent card, looking forward to seeing Brown and Condit hold their belts for a little longer. See if McCullough can bounce back and get into title talks again.
Garcia
Condit
Crunkilton
Hicks
Serdyukov
Galvao
Budnik
Lima
Karalexis
Castillo
Osawa
I can’t wait to see Garcia v Faber for the title. Fight of the year written all over it.
Also, its amazing to see the difference between the welterweight divisions of the ufc and wec. Condit has decimated the ww division in wec but he definitely isn’t top 5 in the ufc and might not be top 10. GSP, Alves, BJ at 170, Kos, maybe Hughes, Karo, and probably sanchez at 170 would walk through condit.
Which is why he is in the WEC, not the UFC.
He wouldn’t last very long in the WW division in the UFC, I think he could make some progress though in the LW division. When BJ takes GSP’s belt this Saturday and possibly leaves the LW division, I would love to see Condit come over and challenge Florian, Diaz, Griffen, Fisher, Sherk, Maynard, etc. Or he can stay in the WEC and own the WW division for several more years.
BJ will not leave the LW division, Dana has already stated that if BJ wins he has to defend both belts.
True that is what Dana said, but things could change. Penn wins and that limits the amount of title fights. Figure Penn fights 3-4 title defenses per year, including a rematch with GSP, that could upset fighters considered #1 and #2 contenders in each weight division. Will be very interesting to see since it has never happened before!!
Why would we figure that? He’s managed to do nothing since he won the belt…
can conduit even make it to 155? he doesnt look like hes got that much left to lose
Would be a tough cut since he is 6′1″-6′2″, but if he wants to fight the best, then that would be the best move for him.
WAR CONDIT… HOW COME WE HAVEN’T SEEN CONDIT IN UFC YET… I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A CONDIT/SHIELDS FIGHT. WINNER STAYS IN UFC… I CAN’T STAND SHIELDS…
That would be an excellent rematch!
That could be a nice fight, but Sheilds has to get out of that ProElite contract first. They’ve been dead since October and are still screwing up MMA… frustrating.
I think a Sheilds Condit rematch would be awesome, I’m not sure Condit can cut down to 55, I mean Corey Hill can but I wonder how that worked out for him ya know (not attempting to be a dik but lack muscle help in breaking his leg imo).. I also wonder if Condit is going to break Brock’s arm again, but Larsen is a tough MFer should be a good fight…
Garcia v Brown well I just don’t know who will win that fight both are powerful, Garcia has a good chin and faster hand speed, Brown has ko power and good takedowns with good jj sooo that fight will be good to see
BJ Penn as the WW/LW title holder will defend in both weight classes but I REALLY doubt he will fight 4 times a year whatever the case, I cannot wait for Saturday
That would be interesting to see, Condit snap the arm in both their fights. Is it just me or does Larson look like a muscular Freddy Krueger?
a muscular Freddy hahaha, if Condit attempts to break his arm again would it be the same one or the other one just for good measure? Is Brock going to be hesitant to shoot in on Condit?
Looks like a great card cant wait to see it.
Both Condit and Larson have improved significantly since their last fight. Brocks boxing looks much better and imo he should keep it standing and try to land a big left but im still taking Condit since he a more complete fighter and im looking for him to land some crisp knees to Larson’s dome. Quit giving Condit grief about him not being able to be in the UFC, he’s still very young and he could definitely mix it up with the top 10 WW but as beating GSP or any of that nonsense…well not many people can beat GSP and probably wont be for a while
Brown and Garcia is going to be a hellacious match. I’m still taking brown though, as he said after the Faber fight “I punch really f*cking hard.” haha
On Condits size and dropping to LW, I saw a WEC interview a while back where he dismissed that and said he was working to become a bigger WW.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I CAN PROUDLY SAY THAT I WILL BE AT WEC 39 LIVE! TEXAS HAS WAITED SINCE UFC 69….I CANT WAIT…JUST THOUGHT ID THROW THAT OUT THERE