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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

WEC: Condit vs. Prater Live Tomorrow Night on Versus

“WEC: Condit vs. Prater,” which includes an impressive lineup with a total of three title fights, takes place at the Santa Ana Star Center in Albuquerque, N.M.. The event airs live on the Versus network beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.

The New Mexico Athletic Commission allows a one-pound allowance for all non-title fighters. However, all three WEC champs — welterweight champ Carlos Condit, lightweight champ Rob McCullough and bantamweight champ Chase Beebe — and their opponents all made weight.

Featherweight Micah Miller, who takes on Chance Farrar in a preliminary bout, weighed in at 147.5 lbs. — a pound and a half over the 146-lb. limit, according to WEC.tv. He’ll have an additional hour to make weight or risk losing part of his purse.

Wednesday’s event, which is the first WEC show of the 2008 fight season, is the first-ever event outside of Las Vegas for the organization since it was purchased by Zuffa LLC, the UFC’s parent company, more than a year ago.

The full weigh-in results included:

MAIN CARD

* Champ Carlos Condit (167.5) vs. Carlo Prater (170) — for welterweight title
* Champ Rob McCullough (155) vs. Jamie Varner (155) — for lightweight title
* Champ Chase Beebe (135) vs. Miguel Torres (133.5) — for bantamweight title
* Antonio Banuelos (136) vs. Manny Tapia (135)
* Leonard Garcia (145) vs. Hiroyuki Takaya (143)

PRELIMINARY CARD

* Mark Hominick (146) vs. Josh Grispi (143)
* Del Hawkins (135) vs. Coty Wheeler (134.5)
* Yoshiro Maeda (136) vs. Charlie Valencia (136)
* Chance Farrar (146) vs. Micah Miller (147.5)*
* Scott Jorgensen (136) vs. Damacio Page (135)

* — Miller will get a second chance to make the 146-lb. limit.

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