WEC 48: Aldo vs Faber

[The HOFF]

Date: Apr 24, 2010

Location: Sacramento, Calif.
Venue: ARCO Arena
Broadcast: Pay-per-view ($44.99)

MAIN CARD

• Jose Aldo vs. Urijah Faber (featherweight title)
• Benson Henderson vs. Donald Cerrone (lightweight title)
• Mike Brown vs. Manny Gamburyan
• Anthony Njokuani vs. Shane Roller
• Antonio Banuelos vs. Scott Jorgensen

PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV)

• Leonard Garcia vs. Chan Sung Jung
• Alex Karalexis vs. Anthony Pettis

PRELIMINARY CARD (un-aired)

• Demetrious Johnson vs. Brad Pickett
• Chad Mendes vs. Anthony Morrison
• Takeya Mizugaki vs. Rani Yahya
• Tyler Toner vs. Brandon Visher

[The HOFF]

Bodog has some odds up:

Urijah Faber +170
Jose Aldo -210

Donald Cerrone -105
Benson Henderson -125

[Educ8d Degener8]

Aldo line is already on the move... probably be at -300 or worse by the time 5dimes gets it on the board...

[Eccocide]

Can't wait for this card. Plus Rogan/Goldberg are doing the commentating!

[illmatick]

I was looking forward to playing aldo but even -200 is a bit more than I thought i would have to lay, I was hoping for something in the -160 range, probably just pass

[Eccocide]

Aldo/Jorgensen parlay will be in the works for me once its made available.

[Educ8d Degener8]

Faber better keep his darn hands up for once... else he'll be put to sleep right quick.

[illmatick]

with you Jorgensen, can't wait to hit that line

anyone else thinking about Cerrone in the rematch?

[Educ8d Degener8]

with you Jorgensen, can't wait to hit that line

anyone else thinking about Cerrone in the rematch?

I'm a huge Cerrone fan, but his TDD leaves quite a bit to be desired. I'll be rooting for him, but can't say I'd put cash on it. If he can somehow keep it standing and score a KO, maybe he'll get the belt, but I just can't see that at this point.

[brooks85]

after cerrone dominated benson last fight and still didnt win, i dont know if i can bet on him this time. Tho the close lines does reassure me.

The first fight to me was clear as day cerrones victory, benson did absolutely nothing in that fight except survive a pummeling for 5 rounds, and few ridiculously deep chokes. I definitely give credit to benson for lasting the 25 mins but i guess that is where the judges opinion and mine differs, i dont give rounds to fighters because they "survived."

Round 5 in that fight was easily 10-8 cerrone

[cky312]

Dang it! Missed out on Aldo's opener, though I was hoping for something near the -180 range. I think Cerrone is worth a small wager simply due to the fact last match was so close, and if it went to the cards again I feel they'll give it to Cerrone unless it's absolutely one sided just for the sake of a third rubber match.

I'm feeling a Aldo, Jorgensen, Brown parlay for this event.

[The HOFF]

anyone else thinking about Cerrone in the rematch?

Yes. I love both of these guys, but I think Cerrone might be able to finish it this time.

[illmatick]

going to be a small play on cerrone for me, I thought he should have been given the nod as well in their first fight

[timmyboy34243]

Mike Brown vs. Manny Gamburyan

there hasn't been a device invented yet that could measure how much i'd like to see manny's ass beaten.

[illmatick]

line went from -345 to -600 lol

[Varker]

I'm rooting for Gamburyan.

[JuicedUp]

The cowboy is going to make sure and finish him this time. I'll take cerrone -105 all day.

[illmatick]

I'm convinced, going to wait and see how the line starts to move before I lock him up

[Shane]

Missed the opener for Aldo. Hopefully the Faber fans will back their boy and get that line back down a little bit.

[Vaughany]

Njokuani, Jorgensen, Picket and Brown.

[THE_LOCKSMITH]

Jose Aldo -325
Urijah Faber +265

Ben Henderson -120
Donald Cerrone -110

Manny Gamburyan +500
Mike Brown -700

[sundin4prez]

gamburyan, henderson and faber for me.....

[doubleleg]

I think that Mike Brown line is way out of whack. Major value there.

[eidolon]

anyone have a link to a stream for the matches tonight?

[tokio]

aldo is gonna WRECK faber.

[The HOFF]

You would think this being a bigger show and PPV the odds would be out a little bit earlier. Hopefully the full odds are out by Thursday.

[Kaladarus]

You would think this being a bigger show and PPV the odds would be out a little bit earlier. Hopefully the full odds are out by Thursday.

You said it, it's obvious not enough people care about this event. I hope not enough people buy the PPV so they can make WEC free again.

[Vrakas]

They got to just merge WEC with UFC.

[urge2kill]

WEC as payperview is gonna bomb.

[knownone]

Gonna see this one live, Faber better now let me down... I feel really good and really really bad about this play.

[JuicedUp]

WEC as payperview is gonna bomb.

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I don't know man this Aldo v Faber fight could convince a good amount of people. Not as much as a UFC PPV but around 100k buys would be a success for them.

[THE_LOCKSMITH]

really u think 100K buys would be a success, i think if they don't get 200K they consider it a failure

[GoldRush7]

There is no way people buy this on ppv. It's kind of a slap in the face to mma fans after all the garbage from 112... **** dana

[JuicedUp]

really u think 100K buys would be a success, i think if they don't get 200K they consider it a failure

For the WEC 100k buys is a success. For the UFC under 200k is a failure, true. But there is a lot more money tied up in the UFC...

[THE_LOCKSMITH]

well since ufc 60 there have only been 5 UFC's under 300K PPV buys, and 4 of the 5 were overseas where the time difference really cut into some PPV buys.

ufc 110 (215-240K) Nog/Velasquez
ufc 109 (275K) Couture/Coleman
ufc 85 (215K) Alves/Hughes
ufc 80 (225K) Penn/Stevenson
ufc 72 (200K) Franklin/Okami

So if a WEC event with its top stars, promtoed like a UFC PPV can't do more than 100K buys no doubt it will be i failure IMO