UFC vs. WEC superfights a possibility
For the first time, a company executive has suggested the WEC may get a promotional push by the UFC, and…
For the first time, a company executive has suggested the WEC may get a promotional push by the UFC, and it could result in superfights between the two organizations’ biggest stars.
Today UFC co-owner and CEO Lorenzo Fertitta admitted the time likely has come for the UFC to help its smaller partner. “We try to promote the best that we can, and now we’re trying to integrate and the help the WEC by using the UFC to promote that,” said Fertitta, who’s blueprinted the UFC’s expansion into 500 million homes across the planet. “In my opinion, the lighter weight guys are the most exciting. They never rest; they just keep going and going. They fight really hard.”
“We’d love to see kind of a ‘champion vs. champion’ type bout with Ben and Frankie Edgar or something like that. Ben Henderson is a great fighter, and I think he could do really, really well against some of the top guys in the UFC at 155.”
And unlike in the past, White apparently has warmed up to the possibility of those challengers coming from the UFC.
“There’s some interesting fights with those guys, so we’re working on putting those fights together,” White said. “We’re working on a lot of things right now that we’ll be announcing in the next couple of months.”