FanHouse WEC 44

Former WEC champions Mike Brown and "Razor" Rob McCullough have been issued short precautionary medical suspensions following Wednesday's WEC 44 event in Las Vegas.

Brown (lacerations above both of his eyes) and McCullough (cut on right eye and left hand contusion) have been suspended by the Nevada athletic commission until Jan. 3, 2010, with no contact until Dec. 19.

Jose Aldo defeated Mike Brown by TKO to win the WEC featherweight championship Wednesday in the main event of WEC 44 in Las Vegas.

Aldo finished Brown on the ground with a barrage of unanswered punches at the official time of one minute and 20 seconds into the second round.

"Mike was really strong," said former UFC heavyweight Pedro Rizzo, acting as translator for Aldo. "He respected him a lot in the beginning of the fight and had to wait for the right moment to finish the fight. So when he found the space, he threw all the punches."

This is the WEC 44 live blog for Mike Brown vs. Jose Aldo, the featherweight title bout and main event for WEC 44 at the Pearl in Las Vegas.

Making his third title defense, Brown faces a dangerous striker in Aldo, who has stopped all five of his WEC opponents.

The live blog is below.

The Ultimate Fighter 5 finalist Manny Gamburyan won his second straight fight for the WEC, defeating Leonard Garcia by unanimous decision after three rounds Wednesday at WEC 44 in Las Vegas.

After three rounds, the judges rendered the fight in favor of Gamburyan with scores of 30-27, 29-28 and 29-28.

"When Rashad Evans said he hits the hardest. Guys, he does hit really hard!" Gamburyan said. "I survived today. He's a good fighter and hopefully we can meet up one more time."

FanHouse has WEC results of WEC 44 from the Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.

The main event features the featherweight championship bout between titleholder Mike Brown and challenger Jose Aldo.

Results are below.

There's a lot of good MMA in November, but there's no better MMA match-up this month than the one that will take place Wednesday night in Las Vegas, when World Extreme Cagefighting featherweight champion Mike Brown defends his title against Jose Aldo at WEC 44. We've got the full preview and predictions below.

All of the fighters on Wednesday night's WEC 44 fight card will step on the scales Tuesday at The Palms in Las Vegas for the WEC 44 weigh-ins, and if you can't be there in Vegas, you can watch right here at FanHouse.

The WEC 44 main event is a featherweight title fight between champion Mike Brown and No. 1 contender Jose Aldo. Both Brown and Aldo will have to make the featherweight limit of 145 pounds, and if you watch the weigh in you'll notice that Brown is the bigger man.

The WEC 44 weigh in starts at 7PM ET Tuesday, and the video is below.

On this week's edition of the The MMA Hour, we were first joined by WEC featherweight champion Mike Brown. Brown will defend his title against Jose Aldo at WEC 44 this Wednesday night, and the American Top Team member discussed what could be his toughest title defense yet.

Later in the show, we spoke to welterweight fighter Dustin Hazelett about his UFC 106 bout against Karo Parisyan. "McLovin" talked about returning to action following a year-long layoff and getting bullied as a kid in high school.

MDS and I also previewed a jam-packed week of MMA action, and in our "Tweep of the Week" segment, we were joined by a former cast member on The Ultimate Fighter, Blake Bowman, and E. Spencer Kyte of Keyboard Kimura. Watch or listen to the show below.

The WEC 44 fight card has been finalized with 10 bouts for Nov. 18 at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.

The event is being headlined by featherweight champion Mike Brown (22-4) defending his belt against Jose Aldo (15-1).

Full lineup after the jump.

On this week's edition of The MMA Hour, we opened the show with the new WEC interim lightweight champion, Benson Henderson. "Smooth" discussed his epic five-round title victory over Donald Cerrone on Saturday night, his health status and when he expects to fight current lightweight champion Jamie Varner.

Later in the show, we talked to WEC lightweight fighter Alex Karalexis about training with Jared Allen of the Vikings, his upcoming fight against Kamal Shalorus at WEC 44 and why he would rather fight in the WEC than the UFC. Watch or listen to The MMA Hour below.