{"id":217468,"date":"2010-01-12T13:48:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-213136:1"},"modified":"2010-01-12T13:48:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:48:59","slug":"build-a-perfect-world-extreme-cagefighting-pay-per-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217468","title":{"rendered":"Build a perfect World Extreme Cagefighting pay-per-view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.combatlifestyle.com\/pics\/view_image.php?id=70083\" ><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" src=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_mma_experts__16\/ept_sports_mma_experts-658414919-1263321974.jpg?ym2dlgCDxZP_loby\" \/><\/a>After Sunday night&#8217;s fights, WEC general manager Reed Harris (pictured with Urijah Faber and Miguel Torres) said that the Zuffa-backed promotion will have a pay-per-view show in the first half of 2010. Though the WEC puts together reliably exciting shows, they aren&#8217;t as well known as the UFC. Pay-per-view success isn&#8217;t automatic for the WEC as it has been for the UFC. <\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean that the WEC couldn&#8217;t make pay-per-views work, but to do that, they&#8217;ll need to put together one amazing event. It would need some of these elements:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faber vs. Aldo<\/strong>: This is non-negotiable. A title bout between the WEC&#8217;s most bankable star in Faber and their most exciting champion in Aldo must happen for this card to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miguel Torres<\/strong>: Behind Faber, Torres is the WEC&#8217;s most well-known star. His journey back to a title shot after losing his belt to Brian Bowles is one of the most interesting stories currently in MMA. He&#8217;s fighting Joseph Benavidez on March 6, but that would hopefully give him enough time to recover for a PPV in the first half of the year.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Jorgensen, Antonio Banuelos, Damacio Page and\/or Anthony Njokuani<\/strong>: These fighters bring it every single time they walk in the cage. Their fights are exciting and often feature highlight reel knockouts or fight-of-the-night caliber performances. If one of them are fighting, I&#8217;m tuning in even if it costs me some cash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The introduction of flyweights<\/strong>: The WEC has been teasing us for a while about adding 125-lbers to their mix. Their first PPV will bring about tons of publicity, which would be the right time to bring out their newest batch of fighters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A reasonable price<\/strong>: $44.99 &#8212; the cost of a non-HD UFC PPV &#8212; is a little steep for the WEC to start out with. Somewhere closer to $30 would be better and would be less likely to scare away viewers who aren&#8217;t used to paying for their WEC fix.<\/p>\n<p>What would you need to spend money to watch the WEC?&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Sunday night&#8217;s fights, WEC general manager Reed Harris (pictured with Urijah Faber and Miguel Torres) said that the Zuffa-backed promotion will have a pay-per-view show in the first half of 2010. Though the WEC puts together reliably exciting shows, they aren&#8217;t as well known as the UFC. Pay-per-view success isn&#8217;t automatic for the WEC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}