WEC 39: Brown vs. Garcia

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1 Background
2 Fight Card
3 Pre-Event Notes
4 Results
5 Bonus Awards
6 WEC Event Chronology
7 External Links

Background

WEC 39: Brown vs. Garcia is an 11-bout fight card that is set to take place on March 1, 2009 in Corpus Christi, Texas at the American Bank Center.

The card will air live on the Versus Network at 9pm ET and its main event will feature a bout between WEC featherweight champion, Mike Brown against surging contender and UFC veteran, Leonard Garcia for the WEC featherweight championship.

Fight Card

Preliminary Card

Bantamweight Bout: Kenji Osawa vs. Rafael Rebello
Lightweight Bout: Danny Castillo vs. Phil Cardella
Lightweight Bout: Alex Karalexis vs. Greg McIntyre
Welterweight Bout: Justin Haskins vs. Mike Pierce
Featherweight Bout: Mike Budnik vs. John Franchi
Welterweight Bout: Johny Hendricks vs. Alex Serdyukov
Bantamweight Bout: Marcos Galvao vs. Damacio Page

Main Card

Lightweight Bout: Rob McCullough vs. Marcus Hicks
Featherweight Bout: Jose Aldo vs. Chris Mickle
Lightweight Bout: Bart Palaszewski vs. Ricardo Lamas
Featherweight Championship Bout: Mike Brown vs. Leonard Garcia

Pre-Event Notes

WEC 39 was initially headlined by a WEC welterweight championship bout between between Carlos Condit and Brock Larson. However, once Condit had to pull out of the bout with an injury the WEC management thought it was instead time to fold the shallow weight class into the WEC's sister organization, the UFC.

Bart Palaszewski was originally supposed to take on UFC veteran, Rich Crunkilton but due to injury Crunkilton was replaced with Brazilian, Ricardo Lamas.

With ZUFFA's decision to dissolve the WEC welterweight division into the UFC, the Johny Hendricks vs. Alex Serdyukov will likely be the last ever WEC welterweight fight.

Results

Preliminary Card

Welterweight Bout: Mike Pierce defs. Justin Haskens via TKO (punches) at 3:39 of round 3.
Featherweight Bout: John Franchi defs. Mike Budnik via split decision.
Lightweight Bout: Alex Karalexis defs. Greg McIntyre via TKO (punches) at 4:19 of round 1.
Bantamweight Bout: Kenji Osawa defs. Rafael Rebello via split decision (29-28, 27-30, 29-28).
Welterweight Bout: Johny Hendricks defs. Alex Serdyukov via unanimous decision (29-28 x3).
Bantamweight Bout: Damacio Page defs. Marcos Galvao via KO (punches) at :18 of round 1.
Lightweight Bout: Danny Castillo defs. Phil Cardella via split decision.

Main Card

Lightweight Bout: Rob McCullough defs. Marcus Hicks via majority decision (29-29, 30-27, 29-28).
Featherweight Bout: Jose Aldo defs. Chris Mickle via TKO (strikes) at 1:39 of round 1.
Lightweight Bout: Ricardo Lamas defs. Bart Palaszewski via unanimous decision (30-27 x3).
Featherweight Championship Bout: Mike Brown defs. Leonard Garcia via submission (arm triangle choke) to defend his WEC featherweight championship.