Screw the WEC?: Not in Grandma's House!

Few things in life are fair.

My friend who hates Fedor, all the folks that willingly drink whatever flavor Kool Aid Dana White gives them, MMA fans who think that the UFC is the whole sport—I could go on and on (and usually do).

One of the worst injustices, as I see it, (incidentally, my husband agrees with me on this one), is that few people are planning to shell out the necessary bucks for the inaugural PPV WEC 47 event on April 24. There is also a WEC event on Versus on March 6—we Willises will be tuned in for it.

How Dana White and the UFC can eclipse other organizations events, which are unfailingly excellent, fast paced fights, with replays of their most recent low keyed events, I do not know.

We have bought many UFC events which frankly were absolute duds. Along with many others, I drank Dana's Kool Aid and bought the hype as well as the overpriced events themselves. You would think that one as old as I am, on a limited income would learn a lesson and be a bit more discriminating.

But no, because I am a faithful fan, I can't bring myself not to buy an event, whether I particularly like the fighters to be showcased or not. (After all, Georges St-Pierre might be in the crowd as the camera pans past the audience. I certainly would not want to be the only GSP fan to miss a cameo appearance, albeit a very brief one, should it occur).

However, after watching the WEC events for free the past few years on the Versus channel, I have learned that the lighter weights put on hell of good fights and always give me the satisfied feelings of discovering new up-and-coming talents. Of course, I quickly became addicted.

The excitement of WEC events helped convert my husband to the sport more rapidly than all the years he had spent watching me watch and gripe about the UFC events that were not worth spending his hard earned money to buy on PPV.

Jens Pulver, Mike Brown, Uriah Faber, Benson Henderson, Brian Bowles, Miguel Angel Torres, and our mutual favorites Donald "the Cowboy" Cerrone and Leonard Garcia have given us untold entertainment and the most inventive and imaginative techniques that we have ever witnessed, such as Jose Aldo's amazing two-knee knockout!

Amazing!

Unprecedented!

Who would willingly have missed it?

Not I, so I just do not understand why there are MMA fans who are not planning to buy the first WEC event on PPV.

Not to mention that Reed Harris is one of the most gentlemanly heads of an MMA organization that I have ever read about. He appears to not only be a fan of the sport, he cares about his fighters and their fans, desiring to put on the best promotion  and highlight all of the lightweights of the sport as avidly as Dana White does his golden boy, Brock Lesnar.

Whatever the rest of the world thinks about the event, at Grandma and Grandpa Willis's house, everyone will be watching the PPV. price be damned!

Quality is worth the price!