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While “WEC 48: Aldo vs. Faber” represents World Extreme Cagefighting’s first effort on pay-per-view, the broadcast will apparently have a very familiar feel.

Longtime UFC broadcaster Joe Rogan announced today on his Twitter account that he and on-air partner Mike Goldberg will be handling broadcast duties for the April 24 event.

Featuring a heavily anticipated main event between WEC featherweight champion Jose Aldo and former champ Urijah Faber, WEC 48 takes place at ARCO Arena in Sacramento, Calif.

WEC officials weren’t immediately available to confirm the report when contacted by MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).

The move, if official, is the latest news that familiar faces within the UFC will be working closely with the WEC on the organization’s first pay-per-view effort to ensure a successful venture.

There are millions of fans out there that are fans of the WWE, and why not? It is athletic, butt-kicking action, with soap opera like story lines and beautiful bikini-clad women.

There are also millions of fans that are fans of the UFC. Like the WWE, it looks to grab that testosterone male graphic, and does so with brutal knockouts, non-stop action, and great pay-per view build ups.

But, is one organization more popular than the other? One can argue both points.

For those of you who have been living under a rock for the last 25 years, the WWE as we know it, was founded by Vincent Kennedy McMahon Jr. He took the best wrestlers out of all the regional promotions, brought them to then the World Wrestling Federation, and expanded to all over the country, and even the world.

WWE saw its zenith in the mid-’80s when Hulk Hogan became a household name. Wrestlemania soon emerged as the “Super Bowl” of wrestling, and others like the Macho Man Randy Savage, Andre the Giant, and Rowdy Roddy Piper became mainstream superstars.

Currently the WWE is still going strong. This past April, Wrestlemania 25 took place in Houston, TX. The WWE made $6.9 million in tickets sales, and weekly more people watch Monday Night Raw than any other cable show.

On the other side of the tale of the tape is the more upstart UFC. The UFC was created back in the early ’90s as a tournament to find out who the best martial artists were in the world. The first Major event was held in Denver in late 1993, where Royce Gracie won.

The UFC has gone through a lot of changes since then. More rules, more controversy, and more fighters. The UFC has a slew of big names including, B.J. Penn, Matt Hughes, Brock Lesnar, and Georges St. Pierre just to name a few.

Recently UFC 100 took place in mid July. Tickets to the event were sold out before they even went on sale. The expected buyrate for the pay-per view is just over one million homes, just a few thousand more than bought Wrestlemania 25.

So which is better?

You can easily argue that the WWE is more rich in tradition. Many people who grew up in the ’80s remember being little Hulkamaniacs. We remember when Hogan body slammed the Giant, Savage battled the Dragon, and the Undertaker tombstoned his first victim.

This may not be the case so much in the UFC. There have been a number of stars that have emerged in the business, likie the Chuck Liddels and Tito Ortiz’s, but with this sport it hasn’t quite been around long enough to give fans that nostalgic feeling.

Point goes to WWE.

A big strength the UFC has these days is that they are able to hype and build up the events. The recent Frank Mir-Brock Lesnar match at UFC 100 had that big fight feel. It was almost like the days when Mike Tyson got in the ring, it was electric.

It just seems to me that when it comes to injecting the big fight feel into an event, UFC gets the job done better, whereas WWE just seems to repeat matches over and over.

Point goes to the UFC.

The cage fighters also seem to be better at getting guys on TV, and making new stars. You never know who may win a fight, since one punch can change everything. In the WWE, it is the same guys. You have your Triple H’s, John Cenas, and Undertakers that do not get out of the way for other guys.

Point goes to the UFC.

Points also would go to the UFC for not being scripted, the best action, and best pay-per views.

The WWE gets the nod in the pageantry category. I love the entrances of the superstars more than the actual wrestling these days. There is nothing like Pyro, and rock music, and loud pops to get you excited. The WWE also gets credit in having more live events. They seem to have at least one show a night, and have TV shows that air four nights a week.

Points to the WWE.

The bottom line is you can debate these two companies all you want. WWE is sports entertainment, UFC is sport, but that doesn’t seem to matter. What does matter is that they seem to be doing good business, entertaining millions, and giving that 18-34 male demo some whoop ass action that we desperately need.

But what do you think? There are so many other points I could have made for both companies. Which one do you like more? Which one do you feel will prosper more in the future?

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If you’ve been keeping up with things, you know that the upcoming fight of Tito Ortiz versus Forrest Griffin is not the first time that these two superlative fighters have been in the ring. It was 2006 and the scene was one most people won’t forget. Ortiz and Griffin took it to The Octagon and, as they say, the rest is history. On November 21, in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, fans will be packing the house to witness Griffin’s attempt to squash “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy”.

If you haven’t been keeping up, then it’s a great time to get back into the ultimate fighting scene and get caught up on what’s happening in the UFC arena. The battle between Ortiz and Griffin marks a kick off of many great challenges coming up and you don’t want to miss a single one. After the Ortiz versus Griffin2 matchup on November 21 this years, the heavyweight division finale on December 5 is like an early Christmas present for fans that enjoy The Ultimate Fighter challenge. Matt “The Hammer” Hamill will take on Jon “Bones” Jones. Jones has the height advantage ofer Hamill by 3 inches but weights are the same, with both fighters at 205 pounds each. Hamill’s record is 8-2-0 while Jones holds a perfect 8-0-0. This promises to be an Ultimate Fighter finale that you simply must see. At a glance, Jones gives a longer, leaner appearance but the bottom line is about who walks away the winner when all is said and done.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship schedule has plenty of treats on it for those who enjoy this particular brand of fighting that combines mixed martial arts and sometimes more than just a little bit of bragging on the part of the fighters themselves.

The battle between Ortiz and Griffin on November 19 will take place at 3950 Las Vegas Blvd South on the Las Vegas Strip between Hacienda and Russell Road, the location of Mandalay Bay Resort. Many exciting events are held at the Mandalay Bay Resort throughout the year and the Ultimate Fighting Championship is no exception to the quality experience you can prepare to have at this venue. Unlike many locations which feature space for the event only, you can plan your Ultimate Fighting Championship attendance as part of a luxurious overnight stay at the resort or a weekend getaway if you wish.

Mandalay Bay Resort is one of the finest locations when it comes to accommodations and there are great many things to enjoy, in addition to the Ultimate Fighting Championship event on Saturday, November 21, without ever leaving the resort. Those who do wish to go out into the Las Vegas night will find no shortage of things to do on the strip. This 43-story luxury hotel and casino has more than a little something for everyone and after a full night’s enjoyment at the fight, you can take in dinner and whatever other festivities suit you.

The Mandalay Bay Events Center is the location for the Ultimate Fighting event this month as well as many other great events. If you are planning to attend with a group, remember that every person in attendance must have a ticket in order to be admitted. There are no discounts for children and no free admissions for any age groups. This center has also hosted the Latin Grammy Awards and is an excellent choice for getting up close to the action that Ultimate Fighting Championship matches can provide. There’s still time to get your tickets to ensure that you’re on hand in person to witness if Griffin will make good on his promise or not.

Ultimate Fighting Championship is a U.S.-based mixed martial arts (MMA) organization, currently recognized as the major MMA promotion in North America. The UFC is currently based in Las Vegas, NV.

After being sent tapes of early Ultimate Fighting Championships events, Senator John McCain immediately went on a campaign to ban the sport. McCain famously called those early UFC bouts “human cockfighting.”

In many ways, the Senator was right. Early UFC events were brutal and violent. And despite having a few rules, those slugfests were billed as “no holds barred.”

The Senator’s campaign to ban the UFC would, in the long run, prove beneficial to the sport. With 36 states banning no holds barred events and pay-per-view providers refusing to air their bouts, UFC had no choice but to reform.

Between 1997 (UFC 12) and 2000 (UFC 28) the organization adopted a myriad of rules intended to add safety and strategy to their fights. The UFC also began using timed-rounds and weight-classes. With these changes, UFC transformed itself from a salacious spectacle of brutality to a full fledge sport.

The next major event in the promotion’s history occurred in January of 2001 when Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta and boxing promoter Dana White purchased the UFC for $2 million. At the time, the organization running UFC was approaching bankruptcy. The Fertittas and White created a company called Zuffa, LLC to run the UFC and White was installed as its president.

Since then, the UFC has become the fastest growing sport in world. Their meteoric rise to the public consciousness was made possible by the use of savvy marketing, holding events in large venues, and the sell of their DVD’s.

Perhaps the sport’s greatest attribute has been its incredible success on pay-per-view. It buy-rates and annual revenue have surpassed that of boxing and rival that of the king of pay-per-view, the WWE.

In 2005, UFC launched its own reality show on Spike TV called The Ultimate Fighter. It’s been a smash hit and helped draw millions to the sport that otherwise wouldn’t have seen the UFC on pay-per-view.

In 2005 and 2007 respectively, UFC graced the covers of Sports Illustrated and ESPN the Magazine. Appearing in those mainstream publications further legitimized the UFC in the eyes of traditional sports fan who still viewed the promotion as more spectacle than sport.

In 2006, World Extreme Cagefighting became a sister promotion to the UFC. WEC specializes in lighter weight classes while UFC specializes in the heavier weight classes.

The following year, UFC absorbed another mixed martial arts promotion, Pride Fighting Championships. There was talk of a UFC-Pride merger but those plans never materialized. Although Pride is no longer an active promoter, many of its fighters migrated over to the UFC brand.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has five weight classes: heavyweight (206 to 265 lb), light heavy weight (186 to 205 lb), middleweight (171 to 185 lb), welterweight (156 to 170 lb) and lightweight (145 to 155 lb).

The promotion utilizes a cage called “The Octagon.” As the name suggests, the cage has eight sides with walls made out of metal chain-link fence. The Octagon measures 32 feet in diameter.

All fighters must compete in approved shorts without shoes. Fighters must also wear approved gloves with at least 1 inch of padding. These gloves must also allow the user to grab with his fingers.

Wins can be achieved through several methods: submission, knockout, technical knockout and judge decisions.

Some notable UFC fighters include Randy Couture, Brock Lesnar, Ken Shamrock, Chuck Liddell, Tito Ortiz, Wanderlei Silva, Georges St. Pierre, Rashad Evans and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.

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