Paulo Filho, the Pride Bushido “legend” and a member of Brazilian’s Top Team, announced yesterday with Tatame magazine that he is close to signing a deal with the WEC. This will be an excellent signing for the WEC and its a great pickup for the organization. Filho, who is currently 14-0, is a submission specialist and would have been a great asset to the UFC. Adding Filho to the WEC improves the WEC’s middleweight division greatly, as Filho is widely considered one of the top three middleweights in the world.
The black belt from BTT Paulão Filho guaranteed that he is close to do a deal with the event WEC, World Extreme Challenge, which is leaded by UFC. “I am making the deal with the WEC organization. I will close three or four bouts with the event, a parallel one of the UFC. I am pretty glad”, said Paulão, who is training hard with Josuel Distak for two months.
Paulão said that will also probably fight until July, but for that he needs to get the weight. “I have to get the weight until July so I will be able to fight. I am 95kg, but I am only doing the technician training, when I will be doing the physical training and take care of the foods I will get the right weight”, said Paulão.
According to Filho’s statement, it appears that he will have at least one fight in the UFC which is a very good thing in my opinion. Hopefully we’ll see Filho start off in the WEC and move to the UFC quickly where he can easily contend for and/or hold the Middleweight belt for a while. Another great signing by Zuffa.
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