Over at Sports Untapped, David Glisan takes umbrage with the bad behavior of fans at last night’s WEC event and poses the question: “Are MMA fans hurting the sport?”
Longtime AWA champion and pro wrestling legend Nick Bockwinkle was famous for his often contentious relationship with the fans that followed the sport. He would often [...]

Though they’re kind of late to the party, Sherdog has a good article on the Hoelzer Reich situation that elucidates several of the points that we made in our coverage:
In September, a producer from HBO’s “Real Sports” contacted me about the show doing a piece on MMA and skinheads.
Specifically, it was to be a [...]

Ben Henderson will face Jamie Varner to unify the WEC lightweight title in Sacto on January 10, 2010. Here’s the 4-1-1 from the WEC website:
Las Vegas, NV (USA) – World Extreme Cagefighting® announced today that the long-awaited lightweight title unification bout between reigning champion Jamie Varner and interim champion Ben “Smooth” Henderson will take [...]

Justed posted–Yael Grauer talks to WEC Bantamweight Champion Brian Bowles:
THE SAVSCI INTERVIEW: BRIAN BOWLES @ THE SAVAGE SCIENCE

Just posted–our wrapup of Saturday night’s WEC results featuring an epic confrontation between Ben Henderson and Donald Cerrone:
WEC: HENDERSON DECISIONS CERRONE @ THE SAVAGE SCIENCE

Urijah Faber has signed a new deal with the WEC, and expects to be back in action early next year. The good news is that his mangled hand, broken in his epic second battle against Mike Brown, is healing very well. Probably a best case scenario all around–Faber is the ‘marquee name’ for [...]

As has been extensively reported over the past few weeks, Versus–the TV home of the NHL, WEC and other sports–has been in a money dispute with DirecTV and as of 9/1/09 they pulled the plug on the network. Here’s the story from USA TODAY’s sports business column:
Manufacturers and retailers — including those peddling TV [...]

WEC 43, originally scheduled for Youngstown, Ohio, has been rescheduled for October 10th and will now take place in San Antonio, Texas. The rescheduled date was due to a minor injury to headliner Ben Henderson and the venue change was allegedly due to a conflict at the Youngstown venue with motorcycle ice racing. [...]

A couple of days ago we wrote about the cancellation of the September 2nd WEC show in Youngstown, Ohio. We were foolish enough to suggest that bad ticket sales were likely the reason, but some stalwart Zuffa fanboy shot back that we didn’t know what we were talking about and that a commenter who [...]

The WEC has announced that their September 2nd show scheduled for Youngstown, Ohio has been postponed to October 10th. The official reason given is an injury to Ben Henderson, who will fight Donald Cerrone in the main event. The unofficial reason is likely poor ticket sales–the choice of Youngstown was something of a [...]