(Filho: Rainy days and Mondays always bring him down.)
Paulo Filho was supposed to have a rematch with Chael Sonnen at WEC’s March 26th event, but the middleweight champion has pulled out of the fight, citing depression and a lack of motivation. As he said in a Tatame.com interview:
“I wasn’t on a good moment, had depression but I’m rising now and the Americans forced me to fight now. I’m not afraid of winning or losing, but I wasn’t motivated to train, wasn’t training well, so I decided to do what the contract says and transferred the fight to June.”
Though the Filho/Sonnen rematch will be a great supporting fight for the featherweight championship bout between Urijah Faber and Jens Pulver in June, it leaves the March card looking mighty thin. That event will feature only one title match — a light-heavyweight contest between Doug “The Rhino” Marshall and Brian Stann, and its next-biggest draw is Brock Larson vs. John Alessio.
Pulling out of a title fight for lack of motivation is some truly weak bullshit, and I hope that the WEC at least fines Filho for this. We feel bad that Sonnen won’t be seeing a fight check for another three months — but if you live in Portland area, you could always support him by buying a house.
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First Filho is the title holder and a very skillful fighter
he’s doing what’s best for him and not risking loosing his title and his whole career because some pussy keyboard warrior wants the fight to happened now. The guy was smart enough to have the clause in his contract and use it–Good job filho. Why would anyone fight if you’re not prepared-that’s just straight up stupidity-smart move on filho. All those angry pussies out there cause he postpone get over your and stop arguing like lil bitches. Go join a gym at least if you’re too scared to get punched in the face.