Curran Withdraws From WEC 37
Featherweight Jeff Curran (31-9-1) has withdrawn from his planned drop to bantamweight at WEC 37 after suffering a hand injury.
MMA Weekly is reporting that Curran had his hand bandaged at UFC 90 over the weekend and has since confirmed with sources that the injury has knocked him off the card. His planned drop from 145-pounds to 135-pounds will instead occur in 2009 once the injury has healed.
“The Big Frog” had won seven-straight bouts over 2006 and 2007, including notable wins over Wagney Fabiano and Rafael Assuncao, but recently dropped back-to-back fright to Urijah Faber and Mike Brown.
Curran was rumored to be facing Chase Beebe at WEC 37 on December 3rd in Las Vegas. The event is scheduled to be headlined by a bantamweight championship clash as current title holder Miguel Torres faces challenger Manny Tapia in the main event.
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Tags: Chase Beebe, Jeff Curran
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they should fold the FW and BW divisions into the UFC
No they shouldn’t. The UFC doesn’t need 7 divisions.
Too many weight divisions is one of the many reasons that Boxing has messed up. Fighters are being given too many chances to become a champion these days.
It’s just that too many LW in the UFC should drop down to FW, but no other promotion gets the exposure that the UFC gets, so they don’t. There could be some great fights at FW if they could get them on a UFC PPV card. Plus the LW division is a little crowded, don’t you think?
How did he hurt his hand at a UFC show? He will be back and should be a beast at 135
“had his hand bandaged at UFC 90″
As in, his hand was bandaged when he showed up, because it was already injured. Not that he had it bandaged during UFC 90 because he injured it there.
He injured it in his profeesional boxing match a few months ago