Tonight at 9 p.m ET Versus will be broadcasting WEC: 44 live from the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Featherweight champion of the world Mike Brown (22-4, 4-0 WEC) will attempt to defend his strap for the third time in the main event of the evening against Brazilian knockout artist Jose Aldo (15-1, 5-0 WEC).
Aldo has been on a murderous tear of late. He’s defeated each of his last five WEC opponents by TKO, including his last outing which ended with a flying knee and strikes 8 seconds into the fight. He is a Brazilian jujitsu black belt but has said (and proven) that his punches and kicks are his greatest threats. As impressive as Aldo has been he’s never had to compete with a beast the likes of the champ.
Brown has ridden his 10 fight win streak straight to the top, becoming the number one 145 lb fighter in the world, and being recently ranked as high as fifth on ESPN’s pound-for-pound list. He’s beaten fan favorite Uriah Faber twice in the streak, once to obtain the belt and once to defend it. His other title defense comes against Leonard “Bad Boy” Garcia, whom will be fighting on the main card tonight as well.
If you’re not familiar, the WEC is a fight promotion owned by Zuffa, the sports promotion company run by UFC president Dana White and UFC owners Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta. Basically the WEC is the UFC for small fighters, the same dudes in suits run the organization and they feature the very best fighters in the world in their respective weight categories.
The little dudes in the WEC have been known to bring it, with their higher endurance the fights never suffer technically and they’re always entertaining. Be sure to flip over to Versus tonight during the fights and check out Genghis Con’s hype up video for the championship bout after the jump.
Who’s taking the belt home? Let us know in the comments section below.
Tags: championship, featherweight, Jose Aldo, Mike Brown, MMA/Boxing, versus, WEC
jose aldo is a freak with his fists but MB is a wrecking ball and just doesnt make mistakes. he’s not the flashiest but he is entertaining and fast paced, i got brown in this one, he’s the bigger man and should be able to take the fight to the mat and ground-and-pound aldo to a decision/ref stoppage