Urijah Faber and Mike Brown

The WEC could make its pay-per-view debut in June for the anticipated rematch between WEC featherweight title-holder Mike Brown and former champion Urijah Faber.

WEC Vice President Peter Dropick confirmed the news in the recent interview with Ariel Helwani at Versus.

According to the interview, the WEC is planning an early-June event which would air on Versus followed by another event, tentatively scheduled to take place later in the month, which would feature Brown-Faber and air on pay-per-view.

A location for the event has not yet been determined, with Dropick commenting that three or four cities, including Sacramento, California, under consideration.

Dropick hopes to have the pay-per-view be “completely stacked,” with WEC bantamweight champion Miguel Torres possibly scheduled to co-headline the card, which will cost less than UFC PPVs. Former UFC lightweight champion Jens Pulver is also likely to be added to one of the June cards.

In the interview, it was also confirmed that the WEC will add a 125-pound flyweight division later this year, with plans to debut the weight class in the fall or early-winter and have the new fighters participate in a tournament to crown a champion. Dropick also commented that the WEC has no plans to dissolve it’s lightweight division, the final weight class it shares with the UFC.

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Andrei Arlovski

Former UFC heavyweight champion and recent WAMMA heavyweight title challenger Andrei Arlovski will make his professional boxing debut on April 11th on the undercard of Paul Williams vs. Winky Wright in Las Vegas.

Ring Talk reported the news on Monday and added that this will not be Arlovski’s only foray into the sport, with famed coach and Arlovski trainer Freddie Roach planning on having the “Pitbull” fight “half a dozen fights and then have him challenge somebody of note”.

Arlovski, who will meet an opponent to be announced in the April bout, challenged top heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko for the WAMMA belt in January at Affliction: Day of Reckoning. Despite early success, a missed flying knee allowed Emelianenko to connect with an overhand right that sent the challenger crashing to the canvas, immediately halting the matchup.

Nate Loughran

Nate Loughran (9-1), who compiled a 1-1 record in the UFC middleweight division with a victory over Johnny Rees and a loss to Tim Credeur, has been granted his release by the promotion.

According to MMA Junkie, who confirmed the release on Sunday with the fighter’s manager, Loughran plans on dropping to the 170-pound welterweight division and gaining experience outside the octagon, but hopes to eventually return to the UFC.

Loughran had been scheduled to fight Nissen Osterneck at UFC Fight Night 18, but withdrew from the proposed contest due to an injury.

The official lineup features:

MAIN CARD (televised)

• Anderson Silva (c) vs. Thales Leites
  UFC Middleweight Championship
• Chuck Liddell vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua
• Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Brian Stann
• Cheick Kongo vs. Antoni Hardonk
• Luis Cane vs. Steve Cantwell

PRELIMINARY CARD (un-televised)

• Vinny Magalhaes vs. Eliot Marshall
• Xavier Foupa-Pokam vs. Denis Kang
• Jason MacDonald vs. Nate Quarry
• Ed Herman vs. David Loiseau
• David Bielkheden vs. Mark Bocek
• Ryo Chonan vs. T.J. Grant
• Sam Stout vs. Matt Wiman