Gamburyan Likely To Debut Against Franchi at WEC 41
Manny Gamburyan
Manny Gamburyan, the lightweight runner up on The Ultimate Fighter 5, is likely to make his WEC and featherweight debut against John Franchi at WEC 41 on June 7th at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, California, according to MMA Madness.
After losing to Nate Diaz at The Ultimate Fighter 5 Finale due to a shoulder injury, Gamburyan (8-4) picked up back-to-back victories over Nate Mohr and Jeff Cox. However, he most-recently dropped two-straight bouts to Rob Emerson and Thiago Tavares that resulted in his drop to featherweight and move to the UFC’s sister promotion.
Fanchi (5-0) in undefeated in five professional bouts, most-recently defeating Mike Budnik via split decision in his WEC debut earlier this month.
WEC 41 is headlined by a featherweight championship rematch featuring title-holder Mike Brown against former champion Urijah Faber and airs live on Versus.
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Tags: John Franchi, Manny Gamburyan
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Better weight class for him for sure. His power can overwhelm the smaller guys.
Him fighting at this weightclass is the best step for him imo, I’m not a fan of his but he should be able to do something at this weight class or atleast be more productive at this weight, bro
Yeah, Gamburyan definitely needed to do this and was lucky to win two fights against UFC lightweights. With his injury history I’m not sure he’ll ever become a contender, but I’m still interested in seeing him fight.
To bad he wasnt as domminant in the UFC as he was on TUF, i can still remember him beatin up wyman and lauzon, he looked good against diaz in the first round as well, i thought he should of got a rematch with him.
Manny Gamburyan will be good in the WEC weight classes. I love his aggressive smothering style of striking-to-takdown-back-to-striking flurries.