Now that Faber has failed to recapture his featherweight title from Mike Brown, where does he go? Should he stay in the division, clean out the rest of the contenders and try for another shot at Brown? Or should he move up in weight and enter the UFC lightweight division?
I was thinking the same thing. It's better for Faber to stay in the WEC as their poster boy, rather than try the deep waters of the UFC lightweight division - at least for the time being.
He will drop down to bantamweight to fight miguel torres before he moves to lightweight. He isn't that big of a featherweight.. he carries a lot of muscle.
He has some options. He could go down and set up a superfight with Miguel Torres if Torres keeps the belt vs Brian Bowles. Or he can just pile up a couple wins in the Featherweight class lets say Faber beats like Wagney Fabiano next for example and Jose Aldo wins the belt that wam make Faber-Aldo for the belt. Hes lost to Brown twice now so I do believe he needs to get 2-3 wins to deserve another shot. Or hell he could go up in weight and challenge for WECs Lightweight Championship especially if Varner beats Cerrone agian they will be short on contenders.
Move up to lightweight and sign with ufc. I would love to see faber fight bj penn-florian-sherk-stevenson etc etc
There's no way he should move up to 155. He'd lose badly in the UFC at that weight and turn into a nobody rather quickly. He's better off getting a few more fights in at 145 and a third fight with Brown or moving down to 135. Brown outwrestled him and outmuscled him. Imagine what would happen if he steps up in weight. I could even see guys like Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard ragdolling him around (and Frankie is small for 155).
