Former WEC featherweight champ Urijah Faber signs new multi-fight deal
Former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber (22-3 MMA, 7-2 WEC) has ended all speculation regarding a potential move to a…
Former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber (22-3 MMA, 7-2 WEC) has ended all speculation regarding a potential move to a competing organization and has signed a new multi-year, multi-fight deal with the WEC.
WEC general manager Reed Harris announced the new deal while a guest on today’s edition of MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). Harris called in from San Antonio, where the WEC exec is currently promoting Saturday’s “WEC 43: Cerrone vs. Henderson” event.
“I had been talking to Urijah for months,” Harris said. “I told him six weeks ago, ‘We’ll get this thing done.'”
Harris said previous reports that Faber may be on his way out of the organization were greatly exaggerated. The WEC exec also said that while both he and Faber had some important demands in the negotiations, both parties were able to reach a mutually beneficial agreement.
Faber has been out of action rehabbing a pair of hand injuries suffered in a June bout with current WEC champ Mike Brown. This past Friday, Harris said he expected Faber back some time before the end of 2009.
“Urijah Faber, the doctor cleared his hand,” Harris said. “Urijah healed really, really quickly. I heard it was about twice as fast as a normal human being. He’s got that hyperbaric chamber thing going, and he told me, ‘Reed, I’m not [expletive] you. This thing works. I spent time in this hyperbaric chamber.’