WEC 36 Was a Disaster

I woke up this morning, put my eggs on, and did some deep thinking about last night's WEC 36 event. And now that I've had some time to think about it, the only conclusion I can come to is that the event was a total disaster.

Urijah Faber's loss to Mike Brown was a serious blow to the WEC, as Urijah was their poster boy. After all, we saw about 9,000 energy drink commercials featuring Urijah during the show, and he's been widely regarded as a top 10 pound-for-pound fighter. Nobody thought Brown was a scrub, but he was relatively unknown to casual fans, so there's an appearance that the top dog Faber just lost to a nobody.

We know that Zuffa had been considering putting the WEC on pay-per-view, but now that Faber's star has dimmed a bit, they don't have anyone that can carry a pay-per-view card. And of course, he has to rematch Brown and beat him as soon as humanly possible.

The WEC's middleweight division also took some damage as Paulo Filho looked like a damn fool in his match with Chael Sonnen. The stars weren't exactly aligned for a great match as Filho came in overweight and possibly depressed, and the fight basically had no action save for some conservative striking on the part of Sonnen.

The UFC is folding the WEC's middleweight division into its own, and Filho was pegged as a top contender. Forget that for now, because the guy obviously needs some mental help to get his head together.

One bright spot, however, was Leonard Garcia's TKO victory over Jens Pulver. With a victory over a well-known fighter like Jens Pulver, Leonard Garcia just dramatically built his notoriety as a fighter and put himself in line for a title shot vs. Brown, or potentially a fight with Faber to determine a number-one contender.