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WEC NEWS: Scott Jorgensen vs. Antonio Banuelos rematch coming to WEC 48 *UPDATED

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Mar 18, 2010 - 3:04:44 PM

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

An already stacked card for the WEC's first event on pay-per-view has added another excellent bantamweight bout, as Sherdog.com reports Scott Jorgensen and Antonio Banuelos will meet for the second time as the opener to the night's pay-per-view card.

The two faced off last June at WEC 41: Brown vs. Faber II in a fight that saw Banuelos earn a razor thin split decision that many had going the way of Jorgensen. Since then Banuelos has picked up another decision victory in the WEC, this one over Kenji Osawa at WEC 44.

Jorgensen, meanwhile, has gone on a three fight win streak since that fight. In his most recent outing, earlier this month at WEC 47, the 27 year old choked out Chad George with a standing guillotine just 31 seconds into the first round, lifting him up off the ground and against the cage.

WEC 48 comes live on pay-per-view on April 24th, headlined by a Featherweight Title bout between Urijah Faber and Jose Aldo.

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Penick's Analysis: This is a great rematch and a chance for Jorgensen to get back the win I thought should have been his last June. Their first bout was an extremely fast paced and exciting three round fight and this rematch should be no different. With so many great fights already on this card that we may not see, I'm still holding out hope that the WEC runs a number of the preliminary card fights on Versus so some of those other fights can be seen by as many fans as possible.

RELATED STORY: Penick's WEC 41 event report featuring breakdown and round by round scoring of the first Jorgensen-Banuelos bout... [CLICK TO READ FULL REPORT]

UPDATE: The original article mistakenly stated this fight would be on the preliminary card, it will in fact be the pay-per-view opener.

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J J
18 Mar 2010, 15:58

"By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

An already stacked card for the WEC's first event on pay-per-view has added another excellent featherweight bout, as Sherdog.com reports Scott Jorgensen and Antonio Banuelos will meet for the second time on the night's preliminary card."

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You do realize that this is a BANTAMWEIGHT Bout and NOT A PRELIM. It has been advertised as opening the PPV portion of the card.

Jamie Penick
18 Mar 2010, 23:21

Yes! Both lapses in brain function on my end. The article has been updated.