MMA On TV This Week 11/3
In WEC
Besides the usual re-airs of WEC Wreckage, we have the delayed and another highly anticipated fight this week on November 5th. WEC Featherweight Champion Urijah Faber will defend his Featherweight title against Mike Brown in Brown’s home state of Florida. Mike Brown who took up MMA for love of the sport has spent 13 years in the MMA circuit working his way up to the big time, televised world of MMA.
Faber as usual is the favored fighter and hasn’t lost a fight in over 3 years when he defended his Bantamweight title against Tyson Griffin when he fought in Gladiator Challenge 42. Since his WEC debut, Urijah has fought 5 times and has won four of those fights by submission. His last fight with Jens Pulver proved to be one of his most challenging when he won by decision after 5 rounds. This was Urijah’s first fight in the WEC and first time in 13 fights that has lasted more than two rounds.
Mike Brown won his debut fight in the WEC against Jeff Curran by decision after 3 rounds. Jeff Curran’s last fight before that was against Urijah Faber and only lasted 2 rounds when he was submitted by Faber. Mike Brown has not lost a professional fight in his last 7 fights. That last loss also being three years ago.
In a co-featured fight, Middleweight Chael Sonnen takes on undefeated Paulo Filho. Sonnen lost to Filho once and is looking for redemption after a controversial ref stoppage when he was caught in an arm lock. Sonnen did not visually tap but the referee stopped the fight saying it was a "verbal submission". Sonnen claimed that he was trying to tell the ref not to stop the fight but later said that the ref made a fair call.
Jens Pulver is looking to work his way back up to a featherweight title shot by taking on Leonard Garcia. There are also other fights that may not be televised.
In UFC
We’re back to the lightweight fights this weeks The Ultimate Fighter 8 as either Dave Kaplan or George Roop from Team Mir takes on either Phillipe Nover or John Polakowski from Team Nogueira.
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Tags: Chael Sonnen, Jeff Curran, Jens Pulver, Leonard Garcia, Mike Brown, Mixed Martial Arts, mma, Paulo Faber, Tyson Griffin, UFC, Urijah Faber, WECRelated Stories
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