WEC 31 Airs Live Tonight On Versus
For those who primarily follow UFC mixed martial arts, tonight is a great opportunity to get acquainted with the WEC (World Extreme Cagefighting) which will be airing WEC 31 live and free of charge starting at 9pm ET on the Versus channel. The card for tonight’s show looks pretty sick and will be featuring WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber, as well as dominating middleweight champion Paulo Filho and UFC veteran Jens Pulver in his long awaited WEC debut.
Since WEC 31 looks so stacked and is airing gratis, I will even go as far to say that I think this might be the first time a WEC event looks more promising than the last UFC pay per view. Though I guess that doesn’t really matter since Zuffa now owns the WEC any way. Perhaps the UFC should pluck some of those stars (cough Paulo Filho cough) from the WEC and throw them into the octagon one of these days? There’s a thought that’s not exactly unspoken any more.
WEC 31 Fight Card
- Urijah Faber vs. Jeff Curran (featherweight championship bout)
- Paulo Filho vs. Chael Sonnen (middleweight championship bout)
- Doug Marshall vs. Ariel Gandulla (light-heavyweight championship bout)
- Cub Swanson vs. Jens Pulver
- Alex Karalexis vs. Ed Ratcliff
- John Alessio vs. Todd Moore
- Bryan Baker vs. Eric Schambari
- Ian McCall vs. Charlie Valencia
- Brian Bowles vs. Marcos Galvao
Note: The featherweight bout between Chance Farrar and Micah Miller was canceled due to an injury sustained by Farrar.
Three title fights!!! That is amazing, but the crazy thing is that I am most interested in the non title fight between Pulver and Swanson. I will go with Pulver by knockout in the second round.
Does anyone know where this can be seen in Canada? OLN (the Canadian version of Versus) doesn’t show any of the live events that are shown in the US. I think TSN showed one of the fights at like 1am a few months ago but I can’t find anything about it in Canada. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!
DrBDan, Try TVU online-
I am looking forward to this night of fights. Turning out to be one of the best months for MMA in a LONG, LONG TIME. I would like to see a rematch between Tyson Griffin and Uriah Fabar sometime. I read about their first fight in Fight! Magazine a while back. It was headlined as “The Greatest Fight You’ve Never Seen” Griffin handed Fabar his first (and I believe only) loss that night.
I’ve been looking forward to this for a while now. I just hope pulvers WEC debut isn’t like his long awaited UFC return fight.
Cub Swanson is a badass. I wouldnt be suprised to seem him knock out Pulver. I of course, being a big MFS supporter, and hoping Pulver takes it quick.
FiX, you must be watching the same channel as me. It is going to be a tough fight for Jens. I have to pull for him cause he went to BSU, but I really have never considered him the brightest fighter, so we will have to see.
Anotherthing, Fihlo is bad, but I think Anderson Silva would tear him apart with his Ti clinch.
That Filho/Sonnan fight was bull****. I think Sonnan might have gotten caught eventually if he kept taking it to the ground and kept getting caught in Filho’s guard, but this was a title fight. You have to wait for a fighter to tap, especially if he is kicking the champs ASS. A. Silva would DESTROY Filho. I agree with the crowd….. BULL****,BULL****,BULL****!
The middleweight division needs some fresh talent. It was obvious once Franklin got beat down by Silva so easily TWICE. Who can even stand up to him right now? Silva could have the belt for a long time. Those of you who think he’s not that great because of his losses in PRIDE need to actually watch those fights again. Silva has learned a lot and he’s not going anywhere.
Filho was such a disappointment. I couldn’t believe they stopped the fight and was waiting for his arm to break. I was agreeing with the announcers as Sonnen kept putting himself in harm’s way. Filho couldn’t take him down and Sonnen was dominating, especially at standup, nearly finishing him off a few times. Filho is tough, but appeared merely averge.
War Pulver!!! He looked phenomenal!!! Faber vs Pulver, where do I sign up?