WEC 39: Brown vs. Garcia was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

 event held by World Extreme Cagefighting

World Extreme Cagefighting

World Extreme Cagefighting was an American mixed martial arts promotion. It was purchased by Zuffa, LLC, the parent company of Ultimate Fighting Championship , in 2006. In its final incarnation, it was made up of 3 weight classes: 135, 145 and 155 lbs. To accommodate the smaller...

 that took place on March 1, 2009 in Corpus Christi, Texas

Corpus Christi, Texas

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. The event aired live on the Versus Network

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WEC Featherweight Champion Mike Brown

Mike Brown (fighter)

Mike Thomas Brown is an American mixed martial artist. He currently fights as a featherweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization and is a former WEC Featherweight Champion...

 made his first title defense against number one contender Leonard Garcia

Leonard Garcia

Leonard Garcia is an American mixed martial artist who currently competes in the featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He previously fought for the UFC in the lightweight division before moving down to the featherweight division in the World Extreme Cagefighting...

. The originally announced title fight re-match between Welterweight champion Carlos Condit

Carlos Condit

Carlos Joseph Condit is an American mixed martial artist currently fighting for the Ultimate Fighting Championship as a welterweight.Condit initially received national attention for his run as the final WEC Welterweight Champion...

 and challenger Brock Larson

Brock Larson

Brock Orville Larson is an American mixed martial artist from Brainerd, Minnesota. He most recently competed in the welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Larson also competed in World Extreme Cagefighting, before it discontinued its welterweight division, and on the...

 was cancelled when Larson suffered an injury in training. It was then announced, that following this event, the WEC would dissolve their Welterweight division into the UFC.

WEC featherweight fighter and former UFC Lightweight Champion Jens Pulver

Jens Pulver

Jens Johnnie Pulver is an American mixed martial artist . He was the first Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight champion and was a coach on the The Ultimate Fighter 5 reality show, which aired on Spike TV. He was formerly signed as a featherweight with World Extreme Cagefighting , which is...

 filled in for Frank Mir

Frank Mir

Francisco Santos Miranda is an American mixed martial artist, as well as a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Kenpō Karate, who competes in the heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion and a former UFC Interim Heavyweight Champion...

 on color commentary for this event, joining Todd Harris

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 on the announce team.

The event drew an estimated 531,000 viewers on Versus

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Preliminary card

• Welterweight bout:   Justin Haskins vs.   Mike Pierce
  Mike Pierce
  Michael Adam "Mike" Pierce is an American mixed martial artist. He currently fights as a welterweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship promotion...
  
  

Pierce defeated Haskins via TKO (punches) at 3:39 of round 3.

• Featherweight bout:   Mike Budnik
  Mike Budnik
  Michael Allan Budnik is an American mixed martial artist and former professional in-line skater. He competed in the first ten X-Games.Budnik has been a resident of Sparta Township, New Jersey.-MMA career:...
  
   vs.   John Franchi
  John Franchi
  John Franchi is an American mixed martial artist. He currently fights in WEC's featherweight division. His debut for WEC was a split-decision-win over Mike Budnik at WEC 39...
  
  

Franchi defeated Budnik via split decision (29–28, 28–29, 29–28).

• Lightweight bout:   Alex Karalexis
  Alex Karalexis
  Alex Karalexis is an American mixed martial artist of Greek descent. He has a professional record of 10 wins and 6 losses...
  
   vs.   Greg McIntyre

Karalexis defeated McIntyre via TKO (punches) at 4:19 of round 1.

• Bantamweight bout:   Kenji Osawa
  Kenji Osawa
  Kenji Osawa is a Japanese mixed martial artist from Tokyo, currently fighting in the WEC. He started MMA approximately six years ago, and trains and fights out of Wajitsu Keishukai A3, and teaches there once a week, he also teaches at his own school called "Osawa juku" every Sunday.-MMA career:His...
  
   vs.   Rafael Rebello
  Rafael Rebello
  Rafael Rebello is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who currently competes in the bantamweight division for the World Extreme Cagefighting...
  
  

Osawa defeated Rebello via split decision (29–28, 29–28, 27–30).

• Welterweight bout:   Johny Hendricks
  Johny Hendricks
  Johny Hendricks is an American mixed martial artist and an accomplished former amateur wrestler. He currently fights in the Ultimate Fighting Championship's Welterweight division...
  
   vs.   Alex Serdyukov

Hendricks defeated Serdyukov via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28).

• Bantamweight bout:   Marcos Galvao
  Marcos Galvao
  Marcos "Loro" Galvão is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner and mixed martial artist currently fighting as a featherweight. He holds a professional MMA record of 10 wins, 5 losses, and 1 draw. Galvão peaked at a global ranking of #2 among bantamweights in August 2007...
  
   vs.   Damacio Page
  Damacio Page
  Damacio James Page is an American mixed martial arts fighter and who currently competes in the bantamweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship...
  
  

Page defeated Galvao via KO (punches) at 0:18 of round 1. This was the only preliminary bout shown on the broadcast.

Main card

• Lightweight bout:   Danny Castillo
  Danny Castillo
  Daniel "Danny" Alfonso Castillo is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight divisions. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Castillo has made a name for himself fighting in California. He currently fights at lightweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championships, and...
  
   vs.   Phil Cardella
  Phil Cardella
  Phil Ryan Cardella is an American mixed martial arts fighter. He currently fights as a lightweight in the World Extreme Cagefighting organization...
  
  

Castillo defeated Cardella via split decision (30–27, 28–29, 29–28).

• Lightweight bout:   Rob McCullough
  Rob McCullough
  Robert Alexander McCullough IV is an American Muay Thai kickboxer and mixed martial artist. He was a five-time World Muay Thai Champion, and is a former WEC Lightweight Champion. He currently trains out of Huntington Beach, CA at HB Ultimate Training Center...
  
   vs.   Marcus Hicks
  Marcus Hicks
  Marcus Dewayne Hicks is an American mixed martial artist who currently fights as a lightweight.-World Extreme Cagefighting:...
  
  

McCullough defeated Hicks via majority decision (29–29, 30–27, 29–28).

• Featherweight bout:   José Aldo
  Jose Aldo
  José Aldo is a Brazilian mixed martial artist, who competes as a featherweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship where he is the first and current UFC Featherweight Champion...
  
   vs.   Chris Mickle

Aldo defeated Mickle via TKO (strikes) at 1:39 of round 1.

• Lightweight bout:   Bart Palaszewski
  Bart Palaszewski
  Bart K. Palaszewski is a Polish-American mixed martial artist. He fought for the Quad City Silverbacks of the now defunct International Fight League. Following the UFC/WEC merger, Palaszewski is now under contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship...
  
   vs.   Ricardo Lamas
  Ricardo Lamas
  Ricardo Alejandro Lamas is an American mixed martial artist who currently fights as a featherweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization. He trains with Team Top Notch in Elmhurst, Illinois...
  
  

Lamas defeated Palaszewski via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

• Featherweight Championship bout:   Mike Brown
  Mike Brown (fighter)
  Mike Thomas Brown is an American mixed martial artist. He currently fights as a featherweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization and is a former WEC Featherweight Champion...
  
   (c) vs.   Leonard Garcia
  Leonard Garcia
  Leonard Garcia is an American mixed martial artist who currently competes in the featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He previously fought for the UFC in the lightweight division before moving down to the featherweight division in the World Extreme Cagefighting...
  
  

Brown defeated Garcia via submission (arm triangle choke) at 1:57 of round 1 to retain the WEC Featherweight Championship.

Bonus Awards

Fighters were awarded $7,500 bonuses.

• Fight of the Night:   Johny Hendricks vs.   Alex Serdyukov
• Submission of the Night:   Mike Brown
• Knockout of the Night:   Damacio Page