Mike Brown Surprised With Merger Reveal, to Possibly Fight at WEC 53

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Despite being one of the more recognizable names attached to the WEC brand, former featherweight champ Mike Brown learned of the recent UFC-WEC merger the same way most people did: via the Internet.

"[The WEC] kept it hidden very well," Brown said Monday on MMAFighting.com's The MMA Hour. "Usually you hear the rumors and stuff starts to pop up, but I didn't hear anything until -- Boom! It was all over the Internet and my friends were calling me and telling me."

According to the 35-year-old American Top Teamer, nobody in the organization told him before the news broke and it wasn't until the following day when he touched on the subject with a company representative through matchmaker Sean Shelby.

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