Popular featherweight Urijah Faber, sidelined since a June loss to Mike Brown due to a broken hand, will square off with Raphael Assuncao at WEC 46 on January 10 in Sacramento, California. Despite losing four-straight and six of his last seven, veteran Jens Pulver will return to featherweight action in the WEC cage in early-2010.

Ben Henderson was crowned the WEC’s interim lightweight champion on Saturday after earning a unanimous decision victory over Donald Cerrone in an instant classic that headlined WEC 43 at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Dave Jansen, Raphael Assuncao, and Damacio Page also picked up main card wins, while Anthony Njokuani, Scott Jorgensen, Mackens Semerzier, Eddie Wineland, Charlie Valencia, and Deividas Taurosevicius were victorious on the WEC 43 prelims.

Welcome to MMAFrenzy.com’s live coverage of WEC 43: Cerrone vs. Henderson, a 10-fight card headlined by an interim lightweight championship matchup between Donald Cerrone and Ben Henderson at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.

MMAFrenzy.com will have live results from the WEC 43 preliminary card beginning at approximately 7pm ET, followed by live updates from the Versus-televised main card at 10pm.

WEC 43 headliners Donald Cerrone and Ben Henderson, along with the rest of the ten-bout card, successfully made weight on Friday at the official fighter weigh-ins for Saturday’s event, which takes place at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Cerrone (154.4) and Henderson (155) meet for the WEC interim lightweight title in the WEC 43 main event, which airs live tomorrow on Versus.

UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva will undergo elbow surgery after all to remove bone spurs and will be sidelined briefly, Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic is not retiring following his latest loss and intends to fight at least once more, at a November 7 Strikforce event headlined by Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brett Rogers will take place at the Sears Centre near Chicago.

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Jens Pulver, Manny Gamburyan, WEC featherweight title challenger Urijah Faber, and 145-pound champion Mike Brown were the top earners at Sunday's WEC 41 event in Sacramento, according to figures today released by the California State Athletic Commission.

Mike Brown again got the best of Urijah Faber on Sunday at WEC 41, topping the former 145-pound title holder by unanimous decision to retain his title in the anticipated rematch which headlined the Versus-televised event at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California.

Welcome to MMAFrenzy.com’s live coverage of WEC 41: Brown vs. Faber 2, which takes place today, Sunday June 7, 2009, at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California. Stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com all night for live results, plus stop by after the fights for extensive post-fight coverage.

WEC featherweight champion Mike Brown and challenger Urijah Faber came in under the 145-pound limit for their championship matchup, both tipping the scales at 143.5 pounds at the weigh-ins for Sunday's Versus-televised event in Sacramento, California.

All 20 fighters slated to participate at WEC 38 tomorrow night at the San Diego Sports Arena in San Diego, California successfully made weight earlier today.
WEC lightweight champion Jamie Varner came in exactly at the 155-pound division limit, while challenger Donald Cerrone tipped the scale at 154.5 pounds. Urijah Faber (145.5) and Jens Pulver (146) [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]