Tickets Go On Sale Jan. 4 at 12 Noon
LAS VEGAS - The World Extreme Cagefighting® (WEC™) organization announced today that it will hold its premiere event in Las Vegas live in The Joint at the world famous Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Featuring three championship bouts, the WEC will take place Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007.
"I am pleased to announce that the WEC will present it's first-ever Las Vegas fight card at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino," said Peter Dropick, WEC Vice President of Event Operations & Production. "We are looking forward to this first fight with the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, and many more down the line. We plan to expand the WEC throughout 2007 and bring it to a whole new level - for WEC fans and fighters - and compete with all the top organizations in the sport."
"The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is excited to host the first WEC event Live from The Joint," said Phil Shalala, Vice President of Marketing. "The sport of mixed martial arts is a great fit with our customer and we look forward to working together in 2007 to build this exciting property."
The WEC's premiere event is already an action-packed, soon-to-be classic night of WEC fighting. Stacked with three WEC Championship bouts, the line-up features the main event matchup Kit Cope vs. Razor "Rob" McCullough in a battle for the vacant WEC Lightweight crown. Two other championship bouts build the top-heavy card, including a ferocious matchup between light heavyweights Jorge Olivera and Doug "The Rhino" Marshall as well as WEC Featherweight Champion Urijah "California Kid" Faber in his first WEC Featherweight title defense.
Tickets for WEC will go on sale Thursday, Jan. 4 at 12 Noon. Tickets (not including applicable services or taxes) are priced at $225, $125, $50 and will be available at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino box office and all Ticketmaster locations, and by telephone at 800-929-1111 or 702-891-7777 (Smith's Food and Drug Centers, Macy's stores and Ritmo Latino). To charge by phone with a major credit card, call Ticketmaster at (702) 474-4000. Tickets also are available for purchase at www.wec.tv or www.ticketmaster.com.
awesome to bad I am going to vegas the weekend after.