WEC 40

WEC 40: Torres vs. Mizugaki
Information
Promotion World Extreme Cagefighting
Date April 5, 2009
Venue UIC Pavilion
City Chicago, Illinois
Attendance 5,257
Event chronology
WEC 39: Brown vs. Garcia WEC 40: Torres vs. Mizugaki WEC 41: Brown vs. Faber 2

WEC 40: Torres vs. Mizugaki was a mixed martial arts event held by World Extreme Cagefighting on April 5, 2009 at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois[1]. The event aired live on the Versus Network.

This was the first WEC event to exclusively feature fights in the lightweight, featherweight, and bantamweight weight classes. The organization's heavier weight classes had been folded into the UFC over the previous four months. World Extreme Cagefighting would maintain this weight class structure for the remainder of the promotion's existence.

Bantamweight champion Miguel Torres was to defend his title against no. 1 contender Brian Bowles, but due to a back injury sustained by Bowles, WEC replaced him in the main event with newly signed #5 ranked Bantamweight Takeya Mizugaki.[2].

The event drew an estimated 470,000 viewers on Versus.[3]

Contents

Results

Preliminary card

Dias defeated Budnik via unanimous decision (30–27, 29–28, 29–28)
Tamura defeated Tapia via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)
Yahya defeated Wineland via submission (rear naked choke) at 1:07 of round 1.
Fabiano defeated Paixao via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
Cruz defeated Lopez via technical unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 29–28). Cruz landed an illegal knee to the head of Lopez while he was on the ground at 3:24 of round 3. Since Lopez was unable to continue, the bout went to the scorecards.[4]
Njokuani defeated Palaszewski via TKO (punches) at 0:27 of round 2. This bout was featured on the main broadcast.

Main card

Assuncao defeated Massouh via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
Henderson defeated Roller via TKO (punches) at 1:41 of round 1.
Benavidez defeated Curran via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 29–28)
Torres defeated Mizugaki via unanimous decision (49–46, 49–46, 48–47) to retain the WEC Bantamweight title.

Bonus Awards

Fighters were awarded $10,000 bonuses.[5]

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ Morgan, John (February 10, 2009). "WEC 40 to be held in Chicago; headlined by Torres vs. Bowles". mmajunkie.com. http://mmajunkie.com/news/13966/wagnney-fabiano-to-meet-fredson-paixao-not-urijah-faber-at-wec-40.mma. 
  2. ^ http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=8257&zoneid=2
  3. ^ http://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/wec-40-torres-vs-mizugaki
  4. ^ http://mmajunkie.com/news/14477/wec-40-torres-vs-mizugaki-prelim-card-live-and-official-results.mma
  5. ^ "WEC 40: Torres, Mizugaki, Njokuani and Yahya earn $10K bonuses". mmajunkie.com. 2009-04-06. http://mmajunkie.com/news/14481/wec-40-torres-mizugaki-njokuani-and-yahya-earn-10k-bonuses.mma. 
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