WEC flyweight division: A work in progress
The WEC flyweight division. It’s been a long-standing idea from World Extreme Cagefighting to add a 125-pound weight class to…
The WEC flyweight division.
It’s been a long-standing idea from World Extreme Cagefighting to add a 125-pound weight class to its roster, but until now it’s remained just that… an idea. With the promotion putting on extra shows and giving current fighters on the roster a chance to fight, the flyweights are definitely coming.
“We’re working on it, and I mean that sincerely,” WEC General Manager Reed Harris told MMAWeekly Radio recently about the flyweights. “The thing that we have is we have a roster with a lot of fighters on it, and we have only so many events. We don’t want to add a division, which just dilutes our current guys, and means that they can’t fight as much as they need to.
“That’s one of the mistakes that some of the smaller promotions do. They load up their rosters and then you don’t see a guy for eight or nine months.”
“If our fighters are healthy, you’ll see them rotate through the company every three or four months to fight,” Harris explained.
“We are trying to clear that bottle neck, and we are working on doing a 125-pound division. The other thing that’s going to happen is you’re going to see a lot of 35er’s drop down,” said Harris. “Some guys from 35 are going to drop to 25, and the 35-pound division will be restocking with some new guys, and obviously some new faces at 25. It’s going to be exciting.”
The flyweight division was introduced over a year ago, but because of scheduling the promotion leaders just haven’t had the time to really sit down and dig into it to determine a plan of action.