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WEC 47 ratings dip to 373,000 viewers, second-smallest audience in two years
 This past weekend's WEC 47 event on Versus scored a 0.46 household rating and 373,000 viewers, MMAjunkie.com today confirmed.
The ratings were down sharply - 42 percent in all - compared to World Extreme Cagefighting's prior show, WEC 46 (640,000 viewers), which took place in January and benefited from proven draw Urijah Faber and a main-event title-unification bout between Benson Henderson and Jamie Varner.
WEC 45, which took place this past December, drew 330,000 viewers.
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MMAjunkie.com Radio: UFC 111 headliner Dan Hardy, UFC on Versus 1's Paul Buentello
 MMAjunkie.com Radio today returns to its normal timeslot and welcomes to the show Dan Hardy, who headlines the March 27 UFC 111 event against UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre.
Also joining the show is heavyweight Paul Buentello, who meets Cheick Kongo in a March 31 televised main-card bout at UFC on Versus 1.
MMAjunkie.com Radio begins at noon ET (9 a.m. PT) live from the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino's Race & Sports Book. Listen to
and watch a video stream of the two-hour show at www.mmajunkie.com/radio.
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"The Ultimate Fighter 12" open tryouts held April 1 for lightweights, light heavyweights
 Although "The Ultimate Fighter 11" doesn't debut for another three weeks, producers are already on the hunt for cast members for the upcoming 12th season.
Spike TV officials today announced they'll host an open tryout on April 1 for lightweight (155-pound) and light-heavyweight (205-pound) fighters.
The tryouts are being held in conjunction with UFC Fight Night 21 and take place at the Omni Charlotte Hotel's grand ballroom in Charlotte, N.C.
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HDNet Fights Video Vault: Alistair Overeem vs. Kazuyuki Fujita at Dynamite!! 2009
 After two-and-a-half years of waiting, Strikeforce heavyweight champion
Alistair Overeem finally makes his return to U.S. soil. As
MMAjunkie.com recently reported, the champ is likely to meet Brett
Rogers at a May 15 event in St. Louis.
Since winning his belt with a submission victory over Paul Buentello,
Overeem extended his win streak to six and then took on PRIDE veteran
Kazuyuki Fujita at the co-promoted DREAM/World Victory Road "Dynamite!!
2009" event on Dec. 31.
In this week's installment of HDNet Fights Video Vault, we present a
video of the full heavyweight clash to see if Fujita could pull off the
upset.
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Listen to MMAjunkie.com's Dann Stupp on WatchKalibRun.com's Cage Cast
 MMAjunkie.com editor-in-chief Dann Stupp recently joined WatchKalibRun.com's Cage Cast podcast, and the episode is now available for download.
Stupp joins WKR editor and Cage Cast host Zak Woods to discuss this past weekend's WEC 47 event, why the Arnold Sports Festival provides such a great sports partnership, and what's in store for Zuffa LLC and Ohio.
To download and subscribe to the podcast, and to check out one of the Web's top MMA blogs, go to www.watchkalibrun.com.
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UFC 112 co-headliner Frankie Edgar hosts UFC Fight Club Q&A at UFC on Versus 1
 UFC lightweight title contender Frankie Edgar will take the stage prior
to the March 20 weigh-in for "UFC on Versus 1: Vera vs. Jones" at
1STBANK Center.
Edgar will be the UFC's guest at the UFC on Versus 1 Fight Club Q&A
session, a fan-driven interview opportunity that accompanies every UFC
event.
Check-in for the Q&A, which is only open to UFC Fight Club members,
begins at 1:30 p.m. MT local time (3:30 p.m. ET), and the session with
Edgar runs from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. MT local time.
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