WEC 36

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WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown
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The poster for WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown
Information
Promotion World Extreme Cagefighting
DateNovember 5, 2008
Venue Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
City Hollywood, Florida
Attendance5,227 [1]
Total gate$563,578 [1]
Event chronology
WEC 35: Condit vs. Miura WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown WEC 37: Torres vs. Tapia

WEC 36: Faber vs. Brown was a mixed martial arts event held by World Extreme Cagefighting that took place on November 5, 2008 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. The event aired live on the Versus Network.

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Background

WEC Middleweight Champion Paulo Filho fought Chael Sonnen in the co-main event of the evening in a rematch of their WEC 31 title fight, where Filho won via a controversial submission. The rematch was also supposed to be a title bout, but became a non-title fight after Filho failed to make weight. After losing the fight (but not the title) to Sonnen, Filho pledged to mail the belt to Sonnen, [2] but the division was absorbed into the UFC on December 3, before future plans for the title could be determined, making this the last middleweight fight in WEC history.

Danillo Villefort was supposed to make his WEC debut against Jake Rosholt at this event, but was pulled from the bout after his visa expired. [3] He was replaced by fellow WEC newcomer Nissen Osterneck.

This event was originally scheduled for September 10, 2008 but was postponed due to the threat of Hurricane Ike.

The event drew an estimated 497,000 viewers on Versus. [4]

Results

Main card
Weight classMethodRoundTimeNotes
Featherweight Mike Brown def. Urijah Faber (c)TKO (punches)12:23 [lower-alpha 1]
Catchweight (189 lb) Chael Sonnen def Paulo Filho Decision (unanimous) (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)35:00 [lower-alpha 2]
Featherweight Leonard Garcia def Jens Pulver TKO (punches)11:12
Middleweight Jake Rosholt defNissen OsterneckTKO (punches)23:48
Preliminary card
Lightweight Donald Cerrone def Rob McCullough Decision (unanimous) (30-27, 29-28, 29-27)35:00
Middleweight Aaron Simpson def David Avellan KO (punch)10:18
Featherweight José Aldo def Jonathan Brookins TKO (punches)30:45
Light Heavyweight Carmelo Marrero def Steve Steinbeiss Decision (split) (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)35:00
Lightweight Danny Castillo defRafael DiasTKO (punches)22:54
Catchweight (137 lb) Rani Yahya def Yoshiro Maeda Submission (guillotine choke)13:30
  1. For the WEC Featherweight Championship.
  2. Filho was supposed to defend the Middleweight Championship, but missed weight by four pounds, forcing the bout to be a non-title catchweight bout.

Bonus awards

Fighters were awarded $7,500 bonuses. [5]

Reported payouts

The following is the reported payout to the fighters as reported to the Florida State Athletic Commission. It does not include sponsor money or "locker room" bonuses often given by the WEC. [7]

^ Filho was forced to surrender 25 percent of his base pay to Sonnen after failing to make weight for the fight.

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