World Extreme Cagefighting middleweight champion Paulo Filho missed weight today for tomorrow night's WEC 36 title fight against Chael Sonnen, showing up at a ridiculous 192 pounds, seven pounds over the middleweight limit.
It's the latest in a long line of setbacks for Filho, a talented, undefeated fighter who hasn't been able to get his personal life in order. Filho hasn't fought since beating Sonnen 11 months ago and has spent time in substance abuse treatment since then.
At this point,t he WEC has not said whether the fight will go on. It's possible that Filho will be stripped of his title.
Full weigh-in results via MMA Mania are below.
145 lbs.: WEC Featherweight Champion Urijah "The California Kid" Faber (144.5) vs. Mike Brown (145.5)
185 lbs.: WEC Middleweight Champion Paulo Filho (192) vs. Chael Sonnen (184.5)
145 lbs.: Jens " Little Evil" Pulver (146) vs Leonard Garcia (145.5)
185 lbs.: Jake Rosholt (185.5) vs. Nissen Osterneck (184.5)
155 lbs.: "Razor" Rob McCullough (155.5) vs. Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone (156)
185 lbs.: David Avellan (185) vs. Aaron Simpson (184.5)
145 lbs.: Jose Aldo (146) vs. Jonathan Brookins (146)
205 lbs.: Carmelo Marrero (206) vs. Steve Steinbeiss (202)
155 lbs.: Rafael Dias (155) vs. Danny Castillo (156)
135 lbs.: Rani Yahya (137) vs. Yoshiro Maeda (135)
WEC 36: Middleweight Champ Paulo Filho Misses Weight for Fight With Chael Sonnen originally appeared on MMA FanHouse on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:25:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.
