WEC 47 Matchmaking News

There was a fair amount of news regarding the WEC's upcoming Ohio fight card, which will occur on March 6th at Nationwide Arena just in time for the Arnold Sports Festival.

Here are the latest headlines:

• Scott Jorgensen vs Chad George set for WEC 47 preliminary card | MMA Mania
  Bad luck for Jorgensen to be relegated to the prelim card after handling Takeya Mizugaki on the televised card of WEC 45
• Miguel Torres fires his camp and hits the road | Cagewriter
  For Torres' first loss in six years this is a pretty drastic change
• Danny Castillo and Anthony Pettis meet in lightweight matchup at WEC 47 | MMAjunkie.com
• "A rematch with Brian Bowles is more important to me than a title shot" ~ Miguel Torress
  Me thinks that if Bowles loses the title but Miguel wins his fight that he will be more than happy to pass up Brian for a title shot....
• Bendy Casimir vs. Ricardo Lamas at WEC 47

• Karen Darabedyan vs. Bart Palaszewski added to WEC 47 main card in Ohio | MMAjunkie.com
  There has to be at least forty syllables in those last names!

• Chad Mendes vs. Erik Koch on for WEC Columbus | MMA Weekly
• Deividas Taurosevicius vs. L.C. Davis booked for WEC 47 main card | MMAjunkie.com
• Finally an audio interview of Jens Pulver courtesy of The Fight Nerd.

Full Fight Card after the jump.

Champ Brian Bowles vs. Dominick Cruz (for bantamweight title)
Joseph Benavidez vs. Miguel Torres
L.C. Davis vs. Deividas Taurosevicius
Karen Darabedyan vs. Bart Palaszewski
Jens Pulver vs. Javier Vazquez
Leonard Garcia vs. Diego Nunes
Chad George vs. Scott Jorgensen
Danny Castillo vs. Anthony Pettis
Bendy Casimir vs. Ricardo Lamas
Chad Mendes vs. Erik Koch
Chad Mendes vs. TBA