Diehard MMA fans remember well the day when Paulo Filho (18-1) appeared to fight more than one opponent in the WEC cage.
Filho, 31, was once the top-ranked middleweight in the world, going undefeated in seven years of competition, but things quickly took a turn for the worse.
And though he rebounded from that bizarre November 2008 [...]
Fresh off his submission victory over Melvin Manhoef at DREAM 10, former WEC middleweight champion Paulo Filho (17-1) will lock horns with IFL veteran Alex Schoenauer (14-9) this Fall at “Bitetti Combat” from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 12, according to Super Lutas.
Filho — the last man to hold the World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) [...]
The Ultimate Fighter 5 winner Nate Diaz (10-4) will get a chance to break out of an 0-2 slump when he tangles with Melvin Guillard (22-7-2) in a lightweight match up at UFC Fight Night 19 at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City, Okla., on Sept. 16, 2009.
Diaz is coming off a disappointing unanimous [...]