The drug testing results from the WEC 47 event held earlier this month at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, OH have been released by the Ohio Athletic Commission and all six of the twenty-two fighters who competed on the card that were tested have passed their tests and come back clean.
Along with former WEC Bantamweight Champion Brian Bowles and newly-crowned titleholder Dominick Cruz, Joseph Benavidez, LC Davis, Javier Vazquez and Bart Palaszewski were all tested for drugs of abuse like cocaine, marijuana and others, as well as for performance enhancing …

Current Strikeforce Middleweight Champion Jake Shields will face his toughest test in quite some time when he makes his first title defense against former PRIDE and UFC superstar Dan Henderson as part of the CBS primetime card on April 17th in Nashville, TN, but according to Shields’ latest words to GracieMag, he may look elsewhere for new challenges should be he be able to get past Henderson;
“I’m a fighter who takes it one opponent at a time and my next fight is in Strikeforce against (Dan) Henderson. When you talk …

Former WEC bantamweight champion Miguel Torres (37-3) posted this on his Twitter site today after filling out paperwork at the doctors office prior to having his head stitched up.
Torres received the cut to his forehead on March 6th at the “WEC 47: Bowles vs. Cruz” event against Joseph Benavidez, suffering a second straight loss, just the third in forty professional fights.
Check out a few more pictures of Torres getting stitched up and the final results after the jump.
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Two of the WEC’s fastest-rising Featherweight prospects appear to be on a collision course as Anthony Morrison and Mackens Semerzier are in talks to meet as part of the undercard for WEC 48, which takes place on April 24th at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, CA. The main card of the event will air on pay-per-view, a first for the WEC, who have been broadcast on Versus since WEC 28 back in June of 2007.
Both fighters will come into the potential bout off of losses at WEC 46 in January …

The first DREAM event of 2010 is a week away and Fighting and Entertainment Group, parent company of the promotion, is still filling out the card as they have announced a 135-pound bout between former WEC Bantamweight Championship challenger Yoshiro Maeda and former WEC Bantamweight Champion Cole Escovedo, who will be making his DREAM debut at the event.
Maeda went 0-2 in the WEC and was released by the promotion, leading him to sign with DREAM in Japan, where he has gone 2-1. Maeda defeated Micah Miller in the first round …

Korean Featherweight prospect Chang Sung Jung has signed a new six-fight contract with the WEC to begin plying his trade in a division featuring the likes of Urijah Faber, Mike Brown and Jose Aldo and with the ink still fresh on his newly-signed deal, talk has turned towards who will welcome the “Korean Zombie” to the promotion in his debut bout.
The promotion has tabbed Cub Swanson as the first opponent for Jung, in a bout that will take place on the undercard of the WEC 48 event that is set …

Former boxing champion Ray Mercer will make his return to MMA action on April 16th as part of King of the Cage’s next HDNet broadcast from the Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI against 5-0 Ron Sparks, with both men making their King of the Cage debuts.
Mercer made his MMA debut back in 2007 in New Jersey against Kimbo Slice in a bout with modified rules that was actually deemed to be an exhibition bout, with Slice winning via a guillotine choke. Mercer followed that loss with his first official professional …

Despite rumors to the contrary that had Strikeforce looking to move their second CBS primetime event in Nashville, TN to April 24th to avoid any counter-programming measures from the UFC, which could possibly include the UFC holding their own event in the state of Tennessee on the same night as Strikeforce’s event, Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker shot down those rumors when he spoke to Sherdog about the topic of what went into the choosing of the April 17th date;
“The irony of it all was that even for the WEC, we …

The card for the WEC’s first-ever pay-per-view effort, WEC 48 from the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, CA, has had another fight added to the mix as the promotion has announced via its Twitter account that Bantamweights Takeya Mizugaki and Rani Yahya have agreed to a bout that will likely take place on the eveninig’s untelevised undercard.
Mizugaki has gone 1-2 in his WEC efforts, but has earned a loyal following of fans for his willingness to stand in and slug with the likes of Miguel Torres, who Mizugaki went five rounds …

The WEC is home to some of the most exciting 155-pound fighters in the world and two of them appear to have agreed to hook it up at WEC 49 this June as MMA Junkie is reporting that former IFL standout Chris Horodecki and Ed Ratcliff have verbally agreed to a throwdown for the event, which is likely to take place on June 20th at the Stampede Corral in Calgary, AB.
Horodecki, who fights out of London, ON, would help give the first WEC show to be held in Canada a …

With Dominick Cruz earning the WEC Bantamweight Championship by defeating Brian Bowles in the main event of WEC 47 and Joseph Benavidez getting the biggest win of his career by submitting former champion Miguel Torres, the stage appears to be set for a rematch of the WEC 42 bout last August that saw Cruz defeat Benavidez by unanimous decision to earn the title shot.
While the stage may be set, the rematch may not be as set in stone as some fight fans would like, if WEC matchmaker Sean Shelby’s comments …

The Ohio Athletic Commission has released the salary information for the WEC event held this past weekend at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, OH that saw Dominick Cruz upset Brian Bowles to earn the WEC Bantamweight Championship.
Though Cruz may have won big in the main event, the night’s biggest earner was co-main event winner Joseph Benavidez, who took home $29,000 for his second-round guillotine submission victory over former WEC Bantamweight Champion Miguel Torres.
Torres was the second highest earning fighter on the night with a salary of $26,000 for his efforts …

The “Astra” event that is being put together by Japanese event promoters J-Rock to celebrate the final bout of Japanese MMA legend Hidehiko Yoshida’s career has added another fight as Yoshida Dojo member and Sengoku upset artist Michihiro Omigawa will take on former WEC veteran Micah Miller in one of the featured bouts of the night.
Omigawa, who held a 4-7-1 record heading into Sengoku’s Featherweight Grand Prix tournament, defeated LC Davis, Nam Phan and Marlon Sandro on his way to the finals of the tournament where he was defeated by …