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Wagnney Fabiano vs. Urijah Faber At WEC 40?

It's possible according to Fabiano himself:

“I’ll be back at April 5th and we’ll see what will happen. I still don’t know who’s gonna be my opponent, but I think It’ll be Faber. And I’ll be ready for him”, said Fabiano, promising his best for the fight.

 

“I have to be well trained, with no injuries at all and I’m already training for this fight. I sincerely think that I’d complicate his life with my game style. He’s good fighting standing, but I don’t fear his striking at all. The deal is be careful with those elbows, but we’ll see. We’ll set a good strategy for him”.

Fabiano is a beast on the ground.  He's very methodical and eventually just wears you down as he did to Akitoshi Tamura at WEC 37.  However, he's severely one dimensional in my opinion.  It would be a quick turnaround for Faber as he just fought at WEC 38, but suffered no damage in defeating Jens Pulver for the second time.  This would also make sense in that this card is taking place in Chicago, the home of Miguel Torres.  Torres is defending his bantamweight belt on this card, so the WEC could be looking to bolster up the star power with Torres and Faber on the same card.  The same way they did at WEC 34 in what still remains the highest rated WEC show on Versus. 

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did you mean wec 40 and wec 38? lol. must have been a long night. anyway, i would be surprised to see faber fighting anyone besides the winner of brown/garcia for the title in his next fight.

by bdw on Feb 8, 2009 5:54 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

lol…I fixed the title beforehand….missed the part in the paragraph…I’m tired as hell man.

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by Kelvin Hunt on Feb 8, 2009 5:59 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

me too

i had a late one as well. i also think faber is out of fabiano’s league.

by bdw on Feb 8, 2009 6:14 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Fabiano is one dimensional?

Jesus, watch more of his fights. Dude is real good on the feet with a lot of natural power.

by sprewellrimz on Feb 8, 2009 6:38 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

lol..I've watched plenty of them.

While he does have natual power, the guy isn’t known as a striker. While the word ‘severely’ is probably a bit much, the guy DOES look to get the fight to the ground more often than not. BTW, thanks for visiting the site

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by Kelvin Hunt on Feb 8, 2009 6:48 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

It’s not bad match making, but I figured that they’d try and conserve their title challengers.

"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito on Belfort at Affliction:DOR

by Rundownloser on Feb 9, 2009 12:51 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Good point. Unless they are going to start pushing Aldo.

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by Kelvin Hunt on Feb 9, 2009 8:03 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

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