Next week’s WEC delayed till October

If the last World Extreme Cagefighting event got you hooked and you were really looking forward to another night of awesome fights, I have some bad news for you: they have just delayed next Wednesday’s show until October 10th on account of an undisclosed injury to co-headliner Benson Henderson.

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A legitimate question to ask would be why the WEC would cancel an entire event over one fighter who isn’t even a star attraction in any sense of the word. I’m wondering that right along with you, but if I was a betting man I’d say the reason is because of a stupid tiff between DirectTV and the Versus channel.

Basically, Versus wants more money to be on DirectTV because they’re no longer as crappy as they were when they were the Outdoor Life Network. That’s not hard, but Versus is right: they do suck way less now and have two pretty damn popular sports in MMA and the NHL. And who am I to say that bull riding won’t explode? Nobody but a no good know nothin’ city slicker, that’s who.

Anyways, long story short is that unless the two of them stop this game of chicken there’s a good chance DirectTV viewers won’t have a Versus channel to tune into next Wednesday when the WEC was supposed to be on. Tack on the hot word that ticket sales in Ohio may have been somewhat poop and it looks just a little like the WEC hopped at the chance to pull the plug on this event when Bensen Henderson was injured. Which sucks for us fans.