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WEC 35 Fighters Test Clean
Aug 14, 2008 - 8:00 am ET | 7 Comments

MMAFrenzy.com (www.mmafrenzy.com) has confirmed with the Nevada State Athletic Commission that all ten WEC 35 fighters who were tested for performance enhancing drugs and drugs of abuse have tested negative.
The ten-bout event took place on Sunday, August 3rd, at The Joint at The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and aired on Versus.
The [...]

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Ten WEC 35 Fighters Drug Tested
Aug 5, 2008 - 11:11 am ET | 10 Comments

MMAFrenzy.com (www.mmafrenzy.com) has confirmed with the Nevada State Athletic Commission that ten WEC 35 fighters were tested for performance enhancing drugs and drugs of abuse.
The ten-bout event took place on Sunday, August 3rd, at The Joint at The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and aired on Versus.
The tested fighters were Carlos Condit, [...]

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WEC 35 Medical Suspensions: Condit, Miura Among Seven Suspended Fighters
Aug 4, 2008 - 6:49 pm ET | 6 Comments

WEC 35 headliners Carlos Condit and Hiromitsu Miura are among seven fighters who have been issued medical suspensions by the Nevada State Athletic Commission following the August 3rd event at The Joint at The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Neva
Condit, who defeated Miura via TKO in the fourth round of their welterweight [...]

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WEC 35 Fighter Salaries: Carlos Condit Earns $44,000 For Title Defense
Aug 4, 2008 - 4:51 pm ET | 19 Comments

The Nevada State Athletic Commission today released the official fighter salaries for WEC 35.
The ten-bout event took place on Sunday, August 3rd, at The Joint at The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada and aired live on Versus.
Reigning WEC welterweight champion Carlos Condit was the highest paid fighter of the event, taking [...]

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WEC 35 Results: Condit and Varner Defend Titles, Cantwell Crowned Light Heavyweight Champ
Aug 3, 2008 - 6:18 pm ET | 32 Comments

Carlos Condit (c) def. Hiromitsu Miura via TKO – Round 4, 4:43
WEC Welterweight Championship
Steve Cantwell def. Brian Stann (c) via TKO – Round 2, 4:01
WEC Light Heavyweight Championship
Jamie Varner (c) def. Marcus Hicks via TKO – Round 1, 2:08
WEC Lightweight Championship
Brian Bowles def. Damacio Page via submission (guillotine choke) – Round 1, 3:30
Josh Grispi def. [...]

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WEC 35 Weigh-In Results
Aug 2, 2008 - 9:27 pm ET | 22 Comments

Hiromitsu Miura (169) vs. Carlos Condit (169.5)
WEC Welterweight Championship
Steve Cantwell (205) vs. Brian Stann (201.5)
WEC Light Heavyweight Championship
Marcus Hicks (155*) vs. Jamie Varner (155)
WEC Lightweight Championship
Damacio Page (135) vs. Brian Bowles (136)
Josh Grispi (145) vs. Micah Miller (145)
Carlo Prater (170) vs. Brock Larson (171)
Dave Terrel (170) vs. Blas Avena (170)
Todd Moore (154) vs. Shane [...]

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Quick Hits: Kimbo and Carano Return In October, Jones Replaces Drwal at UFC 87, and More
Jul 29, 2008 - 4:00 pm ET | 23 Comments

Kimbo Slice and Gina Carano will return to network television at EliteXC Saturday Night Fights 3 on October 4th at the Bank Atlantic Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The event will be broadcast on CBS. Carano will likely meet Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos at the event, while Kimbo may take on Brett Rogers, though several other [...]

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Quick Hits: “Rampage” Court Date Set, WEC 36 in Florida, and More
Jul 17, 2008 - 6:02 pm ET | 21 Comments

A third meeting between recent Strikeforce light heavyweight title challenger Anthony Ruiz and Jeremy Freitag will likely serve as the swing bout for EliteXC “Unfinished Business” on July 26th. [MMAJunkie]
World Extreme Cagefighting has signed former NCAA wrestling champions Jake Rosholt, Johny Hendricks, and Shane Roller. Rosholt will take on Danillo Villefort in his WEC debut [...]

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Quick Hits: Arlovski To Make Boxing Debut, Pulver Planning October Return, Fights Booked For Upcoming UFC Events, and More
Jul 7, 2008 - 7:00 am ET | 31 Comments

Former UFC lightweight champion and current WEC featherweight Jens Pulver, who is coming off of a loss to WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber, will likely return to the cage in October, possibly against Alexandre Franca Nogueira.
The UFC is planning to hold an event in Chicago in October and in Boston in November and will also [...]

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WEC Championship Tripleheader Officially Announced For August 3rd
Jun 13, 2008 - 12:00 am ET | 9 Comments

The World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) organization will return to the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on August 3rd for WEC 35, a championship tripleheader which will be aired live on Versus.
Carlos Condit, Brian Stann and Jamie Varner will all be in action on the main card looking to defend their WEC crowns.
Carlos [...]

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WEC 35 August 3rd in Las Vegas; Light Heayweight Champ Stann To Face Cantwell
May 23, 2008 - 12:41 pm ET | 8 Comments

Brian Stann (6-0), who captured the WEC Light Heavyweight Championship with a first-round TKO of Doug Marshall in March at WEC 33, will attempt his first title defense in a rematch against Steve Cantwell at WEC 35.
Stann dispatched Cantwell (5-1) in their first meeting via TKO in just 41-seconds at WEC 26 in early-2007. Following [...]

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