FanHouse WEC 41

Compare the tickets sold at WEC 42 to the amount sold at WEC 41, the Miguel Torres vs. Brian Bowles event brought in only 6.2% of what the Urijah Faber vs. Mike Brown rematch did.

Of course, WEC 41 was held at Sacramento's Arco Arena, which accommodated 12,706 fans as opposed to the Joint in Las Vegas, which has capacity of 4,000.

According to the official numbers released Tuesday by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, WEC 42 sold 1,640 tickets for a gate of $175,835. 442 tickets were given away and 870 were left unsold.

Ariel Helwani and I are back for another installment of our weekly MMA podcast, where we discuss all the goings on from the big MMA weekend behind us and the big MMA weekend ahead of us. Listen below for a great hour of discussion about Strikeforce, WEC 41 and UFC 99.

After beating Urijah Faber at WEC 41 on Sunday, World Extreme Cagefighting featherweight champion Mike Brown is expected to defend his title against Jose Aldo some time in the fall. But considering that it only took Aldo eight seconds to beat Cub Swanson, Brown didn't gain much insight from the fight.

Urijah Faber vs. Mike Brown, the main event at WEC 41 Sunday night, was one of those MMA fights that gets hyped for months, and then exceeds expectations. And yet as I think about WEC 41 on Monday morning, I'm already looking past Brown's unanimous decision victory, and ahead to the upcoming Mike Brown vs. Jose Aldo featherweight title fight.

Mike Brown proved once again that he's the best featherweight in MMA Sunday night, earning his second victory over Urijah Faber and defending his World Extreme Cagefighting title in a wild battle at WEC 41.

Faber, however, showed off a warrior's spirit, continuing to fight despite injuring both of his hands, including what looked like a badly broken right hand. It was a tremendous battle between the two best 145-pound fighters in the world.

The biggest featherweight fight in MMA history will take place Sunday night when World Extreme Cagefighting champion Mike Brown defends his title against Urijah Faber at WEC 41 in Sacramento, and we'll be live blogging the fight.

The undercard is over, and the Brown-Faber fight is on. The live blog begins below.

The WEC 41 main event of Urijah Faber vs. Mike Brown is just moments away, but we may already know who the winner of that fight will take on next: Jose Aldo, who used a flying knee to earn a stunning TKO victory just eight seconds into his fight with Cub Swanson.

After touching gloves with Swanson, Aldo backed up and then charged forward, landing his knee squarely on Swanson's forehead. Swanson fell to the ground with a gash over his eye, and after Aldo landed a couple more punches, the referee brought the fight to an end.

Donald Cerrone showed once again that he's a complete, well-rounded fighter and one of the top two lightweights in World Extreme Cagefighting Sunday night, beating James Krause at WEC 41: Brown vs. Faber 2 in Sacramento.

Krause, making his WEC debut, attempted to be aggressive and push the pace against Cerrone, but he simply wasn't ready for a fighter of Cerrone's caliber. Cerrone beat Krause both on the ground and on the feet, ultimately using his striking game to knock Krause down and then submit him with a rear-naked choke late in the first round.

Jens Pulver, the former UFC lightweight champion and longtime fan favorite, likely fought for the last time Sunday night at WEC 41 when he lasted less than a minute before being submitted by Josh Grispi.

Pulver, a featherweight who is one of the best small fighters in the history of the sport, has now lost six of his last seven fights -- and none of the losses was particularly close. At age 34, he simply doesn't have the same power and explosiveness that he had in his prime.

WEC 41 is underway in Sacramento, and everyone is talking about the main event, the Urijah Faber vs. Mike Brown rematch. But Manny Gamburyan, the former UFC fighter making his World Extreme Cagefighting debut, won what he hopes will be the first fight on his path to taking on the Faber-Brown winner down the road.