Frank Curreri, WEC - Minutes after the featherweight title belt changed hands at WEC 44, the inevitable question arose: Did we just enter The Jose Aldo Era?

Every world champion is greeted with such abrupt speculation, even though more often than not, title reigns in MMA’s big leagues are defined by brevity, not longevity. Asked about Aldo’s chances for a long tenure, a stitched-up Mike Thomas Brown didn’t completely answer, but sounded skeptical that an Anderson Silva-type of tenure would be duplicated by Aldo, who has won nine straight and hasn’t lost in nearly four years.

Frank Curreri, WEC – It’s no longer speculation, and he’s no longer a secret: Jose Aldo is clearly one of the world’s best pound-for-pound mixed martial artists. It will be hard for anyone to argue otherwise after the explosive Brazilian notched his ninth straight win by destroying WEC featherweight champion Mike Brown.

Click below for the official weigh-in results for Wednesday’s WEC event at The Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas, Nevada. The card, which is headlined by the WEC featherweight title bout between Mike Brown and Jose Aldo, airs live on VERSUS beginning at 9:00pm ET.

Frank Curreri, WEC - It’s a mega-fight, so why is Mike Brown calling No. 1 challenger Jose Aldo, an explosive knockout artist and past world champ in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, “just another top, well-rounded fighter?” It’s a mega-fight, so why is Aldo trying to mentally ignore that the WEC featherweight title will be on the line?

Mike Lowe, Portland Press Herald - Mike Brown was sitting around in his dorm room at Norwich University back in 1995, watching an Ultimate Fighting Championship match on television.

Carlos Arias, OC Register - The Aldo siblings played rough when they were growing up in the Amazon region of Brazil, and WEC featherweight contender Jose Aldo still has the scars to prove it.

Frank Curreri, WEC - Manny Gamburyan has been saying all week that “I hit harder” than Leonard Garcia, but Bad Boy is beyond skeptical.

“He comes in there brave and he’s going to get knocked out,” Garcia vowed.

Brett Okamoto, Las Vegas Sun - In 1986, before his first birthday, Jose Aldo got into his first fight — with a Brazilian barbecue pit.

He didn’t have much of a chance.