2007_in_WEC

WEC 26: Condit vs. Alessio
WEC 26: Condit vs. Alessio
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Promotion	World Extreme Cagefighting
Date	March 24, 2007
Venue	Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
City	Las Vegas, Nevada
Event chronology

2007 in WEC
2007 in WEC
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First date	January 20, 2007
Last date	December 12, 2007
Events
Total events	7
Fights
Total fights	65
Title fights	14
Chronology

2007 in WEC

WEC MMA event in 2007

The year 2007 was the 7th year in the history of World Extreme Cagefighting, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 2007 WEC held 7 events beginning with, WEC 25: McCullough vs. Cope.

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[1] For the Lightweight Championship.

[2] For the Featherweight Championship.

[3] For the Welterweight Championship.

[4] For the Featherweight Championship.

[5] For the Bantamweight Championship.

[6] For the Light Heavyweight Championship.

[7] For the Featherweight Championship.

[8] For the Welterweight Championship.

[9] For the Middleweight Championship.

[10] For the Lightweight championship.

[11] For the Bantamweight championship.

[12] For the Featherweight Championship.

[13] For the Middleweight Championship. Filho's victory was controversial because Sonnen did not appear to tap out, but yelled while the armbar was placed, and the referee took this as a verbal submission.

[14] For the Light Heavyweight Championship.

[16] For the Lightweight Championship.

[17] For the Featherweight Championship.

[19] For the vacant WEC Welterweight Championship.

[20] For the WEC Featherweight Championship.

[21] For the WEC Bantamweight Championship.

[23] For the Light Heavyweight Championship.

[25] For the Featherweight Championship.

[26] Although preliminary, this bout aired on the live broadcast.

[27] Although preliminary, this bout aired on the live broadcast.

[29] For the Welterweight Championship.

[30] For the Middleweight Championship.

[31] Although preliminary, this bout aired on the live broadcast.

[33] For the Lightweight championship.

[34] For the Bantamweight championship.

[35] Although preliminary, this bout aired on the live broadcast.

[36] This was later overturned after Cerrone tested positive for a banned substance.

[37] Although preliminary, this bout aired on the live broadcast.

[39] For the Featherweight Championship.

[40] For the Middleweight Championship. Filho's victory was controversial because Sonnen did not appear to tap out, but yelled while the armbar was placed, and the referee took this as a verbal submission.

[41] For the Light Heavyweight Championship.

[42] This bout, although preliminary, appeared on the live broadcast.

[43] This bout, although preliminary, appeared on the live broadcast.

[15] [1]
"WEC 25: McCullough vs. Cope". Sherdog. Archived from the original on April 16, 2015.

[18] [2]
"WEC 26: Condit vs. Alessio". Sherdog. Archived from the original on April 16, 2015.

[22] [3]
"WEC 27: Marshall vs. McElfresh". Sherdog. Archived from the original on April 20, 2015.

[24] [4]
"WEC 28: Faber vs. Farrar". Sherdog. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015.

[28] [5]
"WEC 29: Condit vs. Larson". Sherdog. Archived from the original on April 20, 2015.

[32] [6]
"WEC 30: McCullough vs. Crunkilton". Sherdog. Archived from the original on April 23, 2015.

[38] [7]
"WEC 31: Faber vs. Curran". Sherdog. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015.

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Title fights in 2007
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Event	Notes
Lightweight	Rob McCullough	def	Kit Cope	Submission (punches)	1	2:52	WEC 25: McCullough vs. Cope	^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Featherweight	Urijah Faber (c)	def	Joe Pearson	Submission (strikes)	1	2:31	WEC 25: McCullough vs. Cope	^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Welterweight	Carlos Condit	def	John Alessio	Technical Submission (rear naked choke)	2	4:59	WEC 26: Condit vs. Alessio	^{[lower-alpha 3]}
Featherweight	Urijah Faber (c)	def	Dominick Cruz	Submission (guillotine choke)	1	1:38	WEC 26: Condit vs. Alessio	^{[lower-alpha 4]}
Bantamweight	Chase Beebe	def	Eddie Wineland (c)	Decision (unanimous) (48-47, 48-46, 48-46)	5	5:00	WEC 26: Condit vs. Alessio	^{[lower-alpha 5]}
Light Heavyweight	Doug Marshall (c)	def	Justin McElfresh	KO (punches)	1	2:16	WEC 27: Marshall vs. McElfresh	^{[lower-alpha 6]}
Featherweight	Urijah Faber (c)	def	Chance Farrar	Submission (rear naked choke)	1	3:19	WEC 28: Faber vs. Farrar	^{[lower-alpha 7]}
Welterweight	Carlos Condit (c)	def	Brock Larson	Submission (armbar)	1	2:21	WEC 29: Condit vs. Larson	^{[lower-alpha 8]}
Middleweight	Paulo Filho	def	Joe Doerksen	TKO (strikes)	1	4:07	WEC 29: Condit vs. Larson	^{[lower-alpha 9]}
Lightweight	Rob McCullough (c)	def	Richard Crunkilton	TKO (strikes)	1	1:29	WEC 30: McCullough vs. Crunkilton	^{[lower-alpha 10]}
Bantamweight	Chase Beebe (c)	def	Rani Yahya	Decision (unanimous) (49-46, 49-46, 49-45)	5	5:00	WEC 30: McCullough vs. Crunkilton	^{[lower-alpha 11]}
Featherweight	Urijah Faber (c)	def	Jeff Curran	Submission (guillotine choke)	2	4:34	WEC 31: Faber vs. Curran	^{[lower-alpha 12]}
Middleweight	Paulo Filho (c)	def	Chael Sonnen	Submission (armbar)	2	4:55	WEC 31: Faber vs. Curran	^{[lower-alpha 13]}
Light Heavyweight	Doug Marshall (c)	def	Ariel Gandulla	Submission (armbar)	1	0:55	WEC 31: Faber vs. Curran	^{[lower-alpha 14]}

Main card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Lightweight	Rob McCullough	def	Kit Cope	TKO (Submission to punches)	1	2:52	^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Featherweight	Urijah Faber (c)	def	Joe Pearson	TKO (Submission to strikes)	1	2:31	^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Welterweight	John Alessio	def	Brian Gassaway	Submission (rear naked choke)	1	4:50
Middleweight	Logan Clark	def	Blas Avena	TKO (elbows)	3	4:23
Preliminary card
Middleweight	Brendan Seguin	def	Fernando Gonzalez	Decision (unanimous) (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)	3	5:00
Welterweight	Alex Karalexis	def	Olaf Alfonso	TKO (punches)	2	3:53
Welterweight	Carlos Condit	def	Kyle Jensen	Submission (rear naked choke)	1	2:10
Bantamweight	Antonio Banuelos	def	Mike French	Decision (unanimous) (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)	3	5:00
Lightweight	Richard Crunkilton	def	Mike Joy	Submission (anaconda choke)	3	4:23

Main card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Welterweight	Carlos Condit	def	John Alessio	Submission (rear naked choke)	2	4:59	^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Featherweight	Urijah Faber (c)	def	Dominick Cruz	Submission (guillotine choke)	1	1:38	^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Bantamweight	Chase Beebe	def	Eddie Wineland (c)	Decision (unanimous) (48–47, 48–46, 48–46)	5	5:00	^{[lower-alpha 3]}
Welterweight	Brock Larson	def	Erik Apple	Submission (kimura)	1	3:43
Preliminary card
Welterweight	Dave Terrel	def	Tiki Ghosn	TKO (strikes)	2	1:46
Featherweight	Cub Swanson	def	Tommy Lee	Submission (guillotine choke)	1	3:17
Bantamweight	Charlie Valencia	def	Antonio Banuelos	KO (punch)	1	3:12
Welterweight	Alex Serdyukov	def	Scott Norton	Submission (guillotine choke)	2	0:57
Featherweight	Micah Miller	def	Jesse Moreng	Submission (triangle choke)	3	3:29
Light Heavyweight	Brian Stann	def	Steve Cantwell	TKO (strikes)	1	0:41

Main card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Light Heavyweight	Doug Marshall (c)	def	Justin McElfresh	KO (punches)	1	2:16	^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Middleweight	Jason Miller	def	Hiromitsu Miura	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)	3	5:00
Light Heavyweight	Ariel Gandulla	def	Gary Padilla	Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28)	3	5:00
Lightweight	Sherron Leggett	def	Charlie Kohler	TKO (strikes)	2	2:25
Preliminary card
Lightweight	Marcus Hicks	def	Sergio Gomez	Submission (guillotine choke)	2	3:20
Welterweight	Tom Speer	def	Sidney Silva	KO (punches)	1	4:33
Featherweight	Manny Tapia	def	Brandon Foxworth	TKO (strikes)	2	3:17
Welterweight	Ed Ratcliff	def	Johnny Sampaio	TKO (knee injury)	1	1:31
Middleweight	Eric Schambari	def	Art Santore	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–27, 30–27)	3	5:00

Main card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Featherweight	Urijah Faber (c)	def	Chance Farrar	Submission (rear naked choke)	1	3:19	^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Featherweight	Rani Yahya	def	Mark Hominick	Submission (rear naked choke)	1	1:19
Lightweight	Alex Karalexis	def	Josh Smith	Decision (majority) (28–28, 29–27, 29–27)	3	5:00
Light Heavyweight	Brian Stann	def	Craig Zellner	TKO (punches)	1	4:57
Preliminary card
Welterweight	Brock Larson	def	Kevin Knabjian	TKO (punches)	1	0:27	^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Welterweight	John Alessio	def	Alex Serdyukov	Submission (guillotine choke)	1	1:17	^{[lower-alpha 3]}
Featherweight	Cub Swanson	def	Micah Miller	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)	3	5:00
Bantamweight	Brian Bowles	def	Charlie Valencia	Submission (rear naked choke)	2	2:50
Featherweight	Jeff Bedard	def	Mike French	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)	3	5:00

2007_in_WEC

2007 in WEC

Title fights

Events list

WEC 25: McCullough vs. Cope

Results

WEC 26: Condit vs. Alessio

Results

WEC 27: Marshall vs. McElfresh

Results

WEC 28: Faber vs. Farrar

Results

WEC 29: Condit vs. Larson

Results

WEC 30: McCullough vs. Crunkilton

Results

WEC 31: Faber vs. Curran

Results

See also

References

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