In notable preliminary card action, IFL veteran L.C. Davis scored a dominant unanimous decision win over previously unbeaten Diego Nunes and Cub Swanson started his climb back up WEC's featherweight division rankings by dispatching John Franchi via third-round submission. In addition, Antonio Banuelos defeated Kenji Osawa via unanimous decision in bantamweight action.

Below are the official results for WEC 44: "Brown vs. Aldo":

Televised Main Card Results:

Jose Aldo defeated Mike Brown by TKO (strikes) at 1:20 of Round 2

Manny Gamburyan defeated Leonard Garcia by unanimous decision

Karen Darabedyan defeated Rob McCullough by split decision

Shane Roller defeated Danny Castillo by submission (rear-naked choke) at 3:32 of Round 3

Kamal Shalorus defeated Will Kerr by TKO (punches) at 1:26 of Round 1

Preliminary Card Results:

L.C. Davis defeated Diego Nunes by unanimous decision

Cub Swanson defeated John Franchi by submission (guillotine choke) at 4:50 of Round 3

Antonio Banuelos defeated Kenji Osawa by unanimous decision

Ricardo Lamas defeated James Krause by unanimous decision

Frank Gomez defeated Seth Dikun by unanimous decision