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Good writeup, always glad to see someone else stepping to the plate in this fashion.

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many have questioned the logic of Zuffa putting him in the WEC rather than sending him to the UFC.

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Signing with the WEC was Filho's decision, not Zuffa's. With the thinness of the middleweight division, he doesn't want to swing in to the same weight class as his close friend Anderson Silva and have to face him in short order -- so he's going to take over the WEC and will only make a move to the UFC if they get a bit more depth in their middleweight division.

I think its a great move. The WEC is gaining a lot of viewers and Filho will be well marketed as their middleweight champ. When he finally makes the jump, it will be for an even bigger payday, and hopefully he'll have someone to fight besides The Spider.

-P