As expected lightweights Shane Roller and Anthony Pettis will meet in August at WEC 50.

This past week, MMAjunkie.com first reported the fight, which could have significant title implications following Sunday's draw between fellow contenders Jamie Varner and Kamal Shalorus.

Officials confirmed the booking, which will be part of WEC 50's main card, during the WEC 49 broadcast.

As expected lightweights Shane Roller and Anthony Pettis will meet in August at WEC 50.

This past week, MMAjunkie.com first reported the fight, which could have significant title implications following Sunday's draw between fellow contenders Jamie Varner and Kamal Shalorus.

Officials confirmed the booking, which will be part of WEC 50's main card, during the WEC 49 broadcast.

“WEC 50: Cruz vs. Benavidez” is scheduled to take place on August 18, 2010 at The Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Event Card:

Bantamweight Championship bout: Dominick Cruz vs. Joseph Benavidez
Bantamweight bout: Urijah Faber vs. Takeya Mizugaki
Lightweight bout: Bart Palaszewski vs. Zach Micklewright*
Lightweight bout: Anthony Pettis vs. Shane Roller*

*-Not officially announced

Wednesday was a busy day for the World Extreme Cagefighting promotion with several bouts announced, including a title bout, for WEC 50.

WEC 50 will take place on Aug. 18 at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nev.

WEC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz (15-1) announced his first title defense via his Twitter page. He’ll be rematching Joseph Benavidez (12-1) in what should be, the events headliner.

Cruz was the only fighter so far to defeat Benavidez and did it at WEC 42 last August. The champ won the bantamweight title last March after defeating Brian Bowles for the belt. He’s won his last six straight fights.

Benavidez is coming off a sensational win over Miguel Torres at WEC 47 in March, submitting the former champ via guillotine. The submission also earned him the “Submission of the Night” award. That was his second straight victory having defeated Rani Yahya at WEC 45 before his only loss to Cruz.

Other bouts that have come to light, as we noted on Wednesday, will see Urijah Faber (23-4) drop to bantamweight and face Takeya Mizugaki (13-4-2). Shane Roller (8-2) is on tap to face Anthony Pettis (10-1) in a lightweight bout. And another lightweight matchup features undefeated Zach Micklewright (7-0) vs. Polish veteran fighter Bart Palaszewski (34-13).

Normally fans can watch WEC events on the Versus network, but with the recent success of it’s first ever pay-per-view with WEC 48: Aldo vs. Faber, fans could expect a card like this one to carry the promotions second ppv.

WEC 50 updates originally posted by MMAjunkie.com and MMAWeekly.com.

A bout between lightweight contenders Anthony Pettis and Shane Roller is in the works and soon could be finalized for August's WEC 50 event.

A source close to one of the competitors told MMAjunkie.com verbal agreements are in place for the fight.

WEC 50 takes place Aug. 18 at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.

World Extreme Cagefighting lightweight contender and Milwaukee native
Anthony Pettis will throw out a ceremonial first
pitch on Wednesday, May 26 when Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers host the Houston
Astros.

Pettis fought most recently at the landmark "WEC 48: Aldo vs. Faber"
pay-per-view event where he earned a submission win over Alex Karalexis.

As a lifelong fans of his hometown Brewers, Pettis said he's honored at
the invitation to take the mound at Miller Park.

Wednesday was a busy day as much of the post event news became available from this past weekends “WEC 48: Aldo vs. Faber” event. The show took place this past Saturday night at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, Calif. with two preliminary bouts being aired on Spike TV and the showcasing of the first ever WEC pay-per-view.

The California State Athletic Commission released the notes on the attendance totals for the event. There was a total of 12,555 paid attendees to watch the featherweight title bout between still champ Jose Aldo and challenger Urijah Faber. That many fans brought in a total of $954,635 in gate revenue.

The CSAC also released the fighter salaries which totaled $336,500 for the event, setting a WEC Record. The top earner for the evening was defending featherweight champ Jose Aldo who earned $40,000 for his victory ($20,000 to show and $20,000 for the win). Read the rest of the fighter payouts after the jump.

The CSAC also suspended 11 fighters from the event. Eight fighters were handed down six month suspensions which included main event fighter Urijah Faber, who can be cleared by a physician for his left thigh and knee. Regardless of whether or not he is cleared, Faber is suspended for a minimum of 45 days for precautionary reasons. You can view the rest of the WEC 48 fighter suspensions after the jump.

Early estimates for the ppv buys has WEC 48 looking at a between 150,000-200,000 buys for the event. Something of a success considering fans had who normally watched it for free had to be convinced to pay to see this one.

Don’t expect another PPV for the next WEC event in Edmonton, UFC/WEC president Dana White told the press it will be business as usual.

“Every time we do a pay-per-view, you’ll see my monkey ass out here. But it’s business as usual when these guys are on Versus: same announcers, same everything.”

“We’ve got to take time and really look at it and hand-pick,” White said. “We’re doing so many pay-per-views, an boxing is going to do a few a year. You’ve got Vince (McMahon of the WWE) doing a bunch of pay-per-views a year. You have to pick and choose.

“We’ve got great partners with Versus and Comcast for the WEC. We know what we’re doing. We’ll do the right thing.”

Check out the full list of payouts and fighter suspensions after the jump.

The full fighter payouts include:

Jose Aldo: $40,000 (includes $20,000 win bonus) def. Urijah Faber: $28,000

Ben Henderson: $26,000 (includes $13,000 win bonus) def. Donald Cerrone: $14,000

Manvel Gamburyan: $36,000 (includes $18,000 win bonus) def. Mike Brown: $21,000

Scott Jorgensen: $21,000 (includes $10,500 win bonus) def. Antonio Banuelos: $7,000

Shane Roller: $28,000 (includes $14,000 win bonus) def. Anthony Njokuani: $7,000

Leonard Garcia: $28,000 (includes $14,000 win bonus) def. Chan Sung Jung: $5,000

Anthony Pettis: $8,000 (includes $4,000 win bonus) def. Alex Karalexis: $10,000

Brad Pickett: $8,000 (includes $4,000 win bonus) def. Demetrious Johnson: $3,000

Chad Mendes: $8,500 (includes $4,000 win bonus) vs. Anthony Morrison: $4,000

Takeya Mizugaki: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus) def. Rani Yahya: $9,000

Tyler Toner: $5,000 (includes $2,000 win bonus) def. Brandon Visher: $4,000

As always these numbers don’t include fight bonuses (such as fight of the night, ko of the night or submission of the night), sponsorships, or any other unofficial payments nor do they deduce such expenses as insurance and taxes.

Fighter Suspensions:

Urijah Faber suspended for 6 months (minimum 45 days for precautionary reasons) unless cleared by a physician for his left thigh and knee.

Mike Brown is suspended for 45 days for precautionary reasons.

Leonard Garcia is suspended for 6 months, or until medically cleared for a possible right hand fracture.

Chan Sung Jung is suspended for 6 months, or until medically cleared for a right distal ulna shaft fracture, as well as a two month suspension for facial lacerations.

Antonio Banuelos is suspended for 6 months, or until medically cleared for a possible nasal fracture.

Scott Jorgensen is suspended for 6 months, or until medically cleared for a possible left metacarpal fracture.

Anthony Pettis is suspended for 6 months, or until medically cleared for a fracture in his right foot.

Bradd Picket is suspended for 6 months, or until medically cleared fora left clavicle fracture.

Rani Yahya is suspended for 60 days unless cleared by a physician for a left eye laceration.

Demetrious Johnson is suspended for 6 months, or until medically cleared for a dislocation and fracture of his right thumb.

Brandon Visher is suspended for 45 days for precautionary reasons.

HT: MMAjunkie.com

Spike TV's two-fight preliminary card broadcast of this past weekend's WEC 48 event drew an average audience of 1 million
viewers, according to Spike TV officials.

The broadcast was the debut of the WEC on Spike TV, though the fight
promotion's brand was completely removed for the event. "Aldo vs. Faber Prelims" served as a
teaser for the evening's pay-per-view broadcast.

The one-hour broadcast featured a highly entertaining matchup between
featherweights Leonard Garcia and Chan Sung Jung, as well as a
lightweight contest between Anthony Pettis and Alex Karalexis.

The absolute war waged between WEC featherweights Leonard Garcia and “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung during the preliminary portion of WEC 48 this evening has the potential to do for the WEC what Forrest Griffin vs. Stephan Bonnar did for the UFC.

Garcia and Sung Jung played rock’em sock’em robots for the bulk of the three rounds scheduled between the pair of hard headed power punchers, battering one another about the skull, face, torso and legs with anything they could throw at one another (hooks, leg kicks, flying knees, spinning backfists, you name it) in a bout that UFC matchmaker Joe Silva declared was the greatest fight he had ever seen in his life according to Joe Rogan following the tussle.

When the dust had a chance to settle following an action packed three rounds, it was Leonard Garcia who earned the nod via split decision from two of the three judges with two scores of 29-28, while one judge gave the bout to the Zombie 29-28 in a bout that could have gone either way.

There’s no doubt who the early front runner is for that sweet $65,000 Fight of the Night bonus going into the main card, which is sure to deliver in the action department.

WEC 48 is taking place from the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California, with the preliminary portion airing live on Spike TV and the main card airing on pay-per-view.

Also on the undercard portion of the event which aired live on Spike TV was Anthony Pettis, who turned in an extremely impressive showing , battering Alex Karalexis before slapping on the fight ending triangle in the second round.

Tonight’s World Extreme Cagefighting event, ‘Aldo vs. Faber’ takes place at ARCO Arena in Sacramento, Calif. Preliminary bouts for the event begin at approx. 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) with the first ever WEC PPV beginning at 10 p.m. EST (7 p.m. PST) for the main card.

Two of tonight’s preliminary bouts will be shown live during a one hour special on Spike TV beginning at 9 p.m. EST (6 p.m. PST).

Two WEC title fights headline the show with fan favorite Urijah Faber fighting in his own back yard against featherweight champ Jose Aldo in the main event. The co-main event has lightweight champ Ben Henderson defending his title in a rematch with Donald Cerrone.

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The full ‘Aldo vs. Faber’ matchups and results are as follows:

Main Card (Pay-per-view)

- Jose Aldo def. Urijah Faber vis unanimous decision (49-45, 49-45, 50-45)
- Benson Henderson def. Donald Cerrone via submission (guillotine) – R1 1:57
- Manny Gamburyan def. Mike Brown via knockout (punches) – R1, 2:22
- Shane Roller def. Anthony Njokuani via submission (rear naked choke) – R1, 3:07
- Scott Jorgensen def. Antonio Banuelos via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

Preliminary Card (Spike TV)

- Leonard Garcia def. Chan Sung Jung via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 28-29)
- Anthony Pettis def. Alex Karalzexis via submission (triangle choke) R2, 1:35

Preliminary Card (un-aired)

- Brad Pickett def. Demetrious Johnson via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
- Chad Mendes def. Anthony Morrison via submission (guillotine choke) – R1, 2:13
- Takeya Mizugaki def. Rani Yahya via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 29-28)
- Tyler Toner def. Brandon Visher via TKO (elbows) – R1, 2:36