The main card for September's WEC 51 event now appears complete.
World Extreme Cagefighting officials recently moved a featherweight bout between "The Korean Zombie," Chan Sung Jung (10-2 MMA, 0-1 WEC), and opponent George Roop (10-6-1 MMA, 0-1-1 WEC) from the preliminary card to the night's Versus-televised main card.
The five-fight televised lineup is now set for the card, which takes place Sept. 30 at the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, Colo.
Featherweight champ Jose Aldo meets Manny Gamburyan in WEC 51 headliner.
MMAjunkie.com initially passed along news of the Jung vs. Roop bout earlier this month.
Jung, a former World Victory Road/Sengoku fighter, made his highly anticipated WEC debut in April during WEC 48, which marked the organization's pay-per-view debut. The Jung vs. Leonard Garcia bout was part of the night's pre-PPV special on Spike TV. In a knockdown, drag-out affair, Garcia earned a close split-decision win, though both competitors earned "Fight of the Night" bonus checks.
Jung became an overnight sensation with North American fans thanks to the performance, But including a unanimous-decision loss to former Sengoku champ Masanori Kanehara in May 2009, he now has lost two of his past three fights.
He looks to rebound against Roop, who gets a third shot at a first WEC win. "The Ultimate Fighter 8" cast member and former UFC fighter dropped two weight classes and fought bantamweight Eddie Wineland at WEC 46, where he suffered a unanimous-decision loss. He then met Garcia in a rousing WEC 47 featherweight bout that ended in a split draw. Roop is now 2-3-1 over his past six fights going back to the TUF 8 Finale.
The latest WEC 51 card now includes:
MAIN CARD
* Champ Jose Aldo vs. Manny Gamburyan (for featherweight title)
* Miguel Torres vs. Charlie Valencia
* Donald Cerrone vs. Jamie Varner
* Chan Sung Jung vs. George Roop
* Leonard Garcia vs. Mark Hominick
PRELIMINARY CARD
* Chris Horodecki vs. Ed Ratcliff
* Antonio Banuelos vs. Chad George
* Tyler Toner vs. TBA*
* - Not officially announced
Source: http://mmajunkie.com/news/20116/the-kor ... n-card.mma