End of an Era: WEC's Final Event Provides Rare Moment for Reflection

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GLENDALE, Ariz. - As of today, the WEC is still their home. By Friday morning, it will just be a memory.

The WEC fighters and staff, they know this. At least, they know it in a hypothetical sense, the way you know that nothing lasts forever. But when the final fight is over at WEC 53 and the little blue cage is taken apart and packed away for the last time, that's when it's going to get real.

Even with as much as they've thought about this day over the past couple months, nobody can be sure exactly how that moment will feel when it arrives.

"I think it's going to be kind of bittersweet," said WEC lightweight champion Ben Henderson. "It's already bittersweet to me now. I try not to think about it too much, but it's already pretty bittersweet to me. It's been great. It's been a great ride."

Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/12/15/e/

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