UFC President Dana White announced Wednesday on WEC on Versus that Phoenix had won the WEC Hometown Takedown fan vote competition, awarding a WEC event to Glendale's Jobing.com Arena on Dec. 16th, 2010. Phoenix beat out Milwaukee and Nashville in the final vote.
↵No cards have been announced yet nor any ticket details. This comes curiously close to the heels of a Strikeforce event on Aug. 13th and the adoption of New Jersey-style rules by the Arizona State Boxing and MMA Commission on July 29th.
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(MMA action at the recent Strikeforce Phoenix event. Photo by Dennis Tarwood.)