According to MMAJunkie.com new WEC featherweight champion Mike Brown (20-4 MMA, 2-0 WEC) and top...

According to MMAJunkie.com new WEC featherweight champion Mike Brown (20-4 MMA, 2-0 WEC) and top contender Leonard Garcia (12-3 MMA, 2-0 WEC) have verbally agreed to meet on as-yet-unannounced WEC card in March.

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Hopefully Faber gets winner.

by nitro on Dec 21, 2008 12:57 AM EST reply actions

Nice. Def the right number 1 contender.

by EazyEismydad on Dec 21, 2008 1:03 AM EST reply actions

I met Mike Brown the other day at the mall. He was shopping with his gf. I congratulated him on being champ and I let him go back to shopping. True story

by Discman2 on Dec 21, 2008 1:28 AM EST reply actions

WEC Has the best match making, almost every one of their cards for as long back as I can remember has been exciting and had atleast one or two wars.

by DirtyML on Dec 21, 2008 2:47 AM EST reply actions

Should be good. Garcia has a big heart. i think he may be in over his head a bit with Brown though.

by lbk on Dec 21, 2008 10:58 AM EST reply actions

I may be the only one to disagree with the comments above but

I don’t see why there is not a mandatory rematch with Faber. He is the true #1 contender. The fight with Pulver makes little sense to me; if Brown is hurt, Faber should be fighting Garcia in a de facto #1 contender eliminator. Jens just left Miletich, why not give him more time to train and a fight he can actually win? The end game, I think, is a Faber vs Miguel Torres superfight to headline a first WEC PPV sometime in ‘09, but it is predicated on them both being champs. I’m not sure how this current plan works.

by Drewplata on Dec 21, 2008 11:33 AM EST reply actions

Garcia has earned this fight.

by lbk on Dec 21, 2008 11:50 AM EST up reply actions

How???

He didn’t fight at all between 3/28/03 and 4/1/06. Since then, he’s 4-2.

by Drewplata on Dec 21, 2008 1:41 PM EST up reply actions

It's...

the general way that champions who lose their titles are handled in Zuffa promotions. 1 rebound fight while the champion tries to defend one time…and then the ex champion gets the shot at the belt (provided he won the rebound fight)

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by Brent Brookhouse on Dec 21, 2008 12:16 PM EST up reply actions

Who’s to say if Mike Thomas Brown loses and Faber wins that Fabe will get a title shot? Possibly if Faber wins and Brown loses, we could see a Faber vs. Brown for a number 1 contender shot and possibly somebody like Jose Aldo could slide into the contender spot against Garcia.
That probably wont happen. But still a thought.

by "Mr. NC-17" on Dec 21, 2008 12:30 PM EST reply actions

As dominant as Faber was and as big of a draw as he is for WEC, they could’ve given him an immediate rematch and gotten away with it. I don’t see giving him a title shot after the Pulver fight as a big deal, assuming he wins the fight of course.

by Zack Gobie on Dec 21, 2008 1:48 PM EST reply actions