WEC 38: Varner vs. Cerrone (25-Jan-09)

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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    WEC 38
    January 25th, 2009
    San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, California

    155 Lbs: Jamie "The Worm" Varner (15-2) (C) vs. Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone (9-0)
    145 Lbs: Urijah "The California Kid" Faber (21-2) vs. Jens "Little Evil" Pulver (22-10-1)
    170 Lbs: Danillo “Indio” Villefort (8-2) vs. Mike Campbell (4-0)
    145 Lbs: Jose Aldo (12-1) vs. Rolando Perez (4-1-1)

    170 Lbs: Edgar Garcia (6-0) vs. Hiromitsu Miura (9-5)
    155 Lbs: Anthony Njokuani (9-1) vs. Benson Henderson (7-1)
    135 Lbs: Dominick Cruz (11-1) vs. Ian McCall (7-1)
    170 Lbs: Blas Avena (4-1) vs. Jesse Lennox (9-1)
    135 Lbs: Frank Gomez (5-0) vs. Scott Jorgensen (5-2)
    135 Lbs: Seth “2 Quick” Dikun (6-2) vs. Charlie Valencia (9-3)
     
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    Re: WEC 38: Varner vs. Cerrone

    Notes on the Event:

    -- Undefeated lightweight Donald Cerrone, one of Greg Jackson's students, earned his title shot with a thrilling unanimous decision victory over former champion Rob MacCullough. Eight of Cerrone's nine wins have been by submission. Jamie Varner has one loss in his last seventeen bouts and all of his wins during that span are by stoppage. Varner hasn't gone to a decision since 2003. The champ trains with Arizona Combat Sports.

    -- Former WEC Featherweight Champion Urijah Faber faces former UFC Lightweight Champion Jens Pulver in a rematch of their classic five-round title fight from 2008. The Fairtex fighter lost his title to Mike Thomas Brown in November. Brown had Faber hurt from strikes when Faber attempted a high-risk spinning back elbow. Brown caught him with a short punch and dropped him, finishing him off on the ground to force the referee to stop the bout less than three minutes into the first round. Pulver is also coming off a loss having been brutally knocked out by Leonard Garcia that same night. Garcia and Brown are expected to fight at the next WEC event for the Featherweight Title.

    -- Rising featherweight fighter Jose Aldo, a member of Nova Uniao, could put himself in line for title contention with another convincing victory at WEC 38. Aldo comes from the same camp as Vitor 'Shaolin' Ribeiro and Wagnney Fabiano. His opponent, Fredson Paixao, is a Gracie Barra fighter making his WEC debut. The Rio native trains with Renato 'Babalu' Sobral and Gustavo Machado.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    [video=youtube;wL-n8MYfh8M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL-n8MYfh8M[/video]
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Rolando Perez replaces Fredson Paixao and Benson Henderson replaces Ed Ratcliff.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    MMA saturation levels are high this month.

    WEC 38 goes off tomorrow (Sunday) night live on Versus at 9:30PM EST. Canadian fans can watch on TSN.

    The WEC lightweight (155-lbs) title is on the line!

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    This is awesome. I have this the Laker game and this to watch tomorrow, UFC 94 next Saturday, and the Super Bowl next Sunday. Fuckin' awesome.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Yeah, pretty sweet. Penn/St. Pierre is my Superbowl.
     
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    War Faber!
     
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    is Cerrone standing on the scale? cause hes huge compared to varner
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    He's 4" taller but there must be a camera angle or a pair of shoes or something adding to the disparity.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Yeah, he must've been on his toes...

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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    WTF? Why is TSN showing a documentary on handball?
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Ok, its delayed for some reason.
     
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    wooo HD mma!


    and lol at that old guy trying to come back at handball.. wtf who cares!
     
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    Aldo should have this easy.
     
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    then again I'm 0-2 so far tonight... I should shut up.
     
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    That was a beautiful knee by Aldo.
     
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    that was a good fight and sweet finish.
     
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    Two fights in and once again WEC is delivering big time.

    Man, I can't believe I paid $55 for Affliction but I'm getting this one free. It's opposite day or something.
     
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