Urijah Faber

And I fought for them at the Tachi Palace out in Northern California.

And that's the only place they have it.

It was on HDTV, which was Mark Cuban's station.

So Cuban was early in on the MMA sport.

And so...

The WC was bought by Zufa, the UFC, and anybody that saw me on TV with the WC was under the UFC.

So they had two opportunities to...

employ fighters.

They had two sets of sponsors for drinks, two sets of TV deals.

They employed all the lightweight fighters, 125s, 135s, 145s, 155s.

And at first, they had a couple other weight classes, like Chael Sonnen was originally the champion at the WC.

And they eventually took away all the common weight classes

and just had the WEC as the lightweights until they merged in 2011.

So all the fights that happened on TV was the UFC running the WEC as the lightweight division.

Yeah.

I mean, he was a middleweight, so obviously... Dude, Hendo's the best, man.

I love freaking Hendo.

Yeah, Olympic guy, Olympic wrestler that never wrestled.

Yeah, so the WC before we actually merged with the UFC officially was actually the UFC still.

So Demetrius Johnson, Dominic Cruz, Jose Aldo, Benson Henderson, Anthony Pettis, Cowboy Cerrone.