Former WEC Champion McCullough Returns On June 1st
- By: Kris Karkoski | Apr 26, 2008
Former World Extreme Cagefighting Lightweight Champion “Razor” Rob McCullough (15-4) will return to the cage on June 1st against Kenneth Alexander (5-2). The WEC revealed the bout, along with a handful of others, in a recent update to the official fight card for the event.
The June 1st event, WEC 34, takes place at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California and features a main event featherweight title bout between current champion Uriah Faber and former UFC lightweight champ Jens Pulver. The event will air live on Versus beginning at 9pm ET.
McCullough captured the WEC lightweight belt with a submission win over Kit Cope at WEC 25 in early-2007. Following his first title defense via first round stoppage against Richard Crunkilton at WEC 30 last September, McCullough dropped the 155-pound title in February at WEC 32 to Jamie Varner.
Alexander, who had won five of his first seven professional fights, will look to rebound from a WEC 30 loss to Donald Cerrone. Fortunately for Alexander the submission loss was erased from his record and recorded as a no contest after Cerrone tested positive for a diuretic during a post-event drug tests.
The current official fight card for the event is after the jump…
For more on WEC 34 check out the MMAFrenzy.com rumors section.
OFFICIAL WEC 34 FIGHT CARD
Main Card
- Urijah Faber vs. Jens Pulver
WEC Featherweight Championship - Yoshiro Maeda vs. Miguel Torres
WEC Bantamweight Championship - Chuck Grigsby vs. Mark Munoz
- Kenneth Alexander vs. Rob McCullough
Preliminary Bouts
- Jeff Curran vs. Mike Brown
- Tim McKenzie vs. Eric Schambari
- Alex Serdyukov vs. Luis Sapo
- Jose Aldo vs. Alexandre Nogueira
- Charlie Valencia vs. Dominick Cruz
I for one am fired up about this pulver faber fight. i look forward to this whole card plus its always free on versus.
April 27th, 2008 at 10:05 am
I can’t wait for the Faber/Pulver fight. Also really want to see Miguel Torress fight again, he really looked good in has last fight. I would like to see Jeff Curran and Charlie Valencia get some Tv air time if it is possible. Other than that this is looking to be a really good card.
April 27th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
ya, WEC’s doing a good job of putting together some good talent without trying to get all gimicky (cough, kimbo slice, cough). the pulver faber fight is probably the only non UFC fight i’ve realllllly wanted to see in recent memory. I think they’re taking a good approach by not trying to compete directly with UFC and just concentrate on the lighter weight classes. Granted, they have the same owner, so i’m sure that plays into it.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:54 pm