Fighter Pulls Out Of WEC Fight

WEC fighter Tim McKenzie has been forced to pull out of his bout against David Avellan at September 10th's WEC event.

McKenzie is reported to have sustained an injury in training, although nothing is known about the nature of the injury. With the fight being just two weeks away, it is unclear whether the WEC will find a replacement for McKenzie, or the bout will be scrapped.

If the fight is cancelled, there will be eight fights on the card, which is headline by Urijah Faber and Mike Brown. The full card looks like this:

Urijah Faber vs. Mike Brown

Paulo Filho vs. Chael Sonnen

Jens Pulver vs. Leonard Garcia

Danillo Villefort vs. Jake Rosholt

Rob McCullough vs. Donald Cerrone

Rani Yahya vs. Yoshihiro Maeda

Johny Hendricks vs. Alex Serdyukov

Ed Ratcliff vs. Danny Castillo

Paulo Filho Versus Chael Sonnen Rematch Arranged

The fight that WEC fans everywhere have been waiting to see is finally set.

Middleweight champion Paulo Filho will fight Chael Sonnen at a WEC event on September 10th. The pair originally fought at WEC 31 in December, where Filho won via verbal submission due to an armbar. Despite the nature of the finish, there was some dispute over the winner of the fight, and the pair were scheduled to rematch in March, but Filho's career took an unexpected turn.

Paulo Filho puuled out of the match and checked himself into a drug rehabilitation facility due to chemical dependancy and depression. Filho spent a few months there and has since been discharged and declared fit to fight. This has cleared the way for the rematch to take place.