WSOF schedules four-man middleweight tournament to crown first 185-pound champion

World Series of Fighting will crown its first middleweight champion later this year following a four-man tournament.

MMA veteran Jesse Taylor, who has signed a multi-fight deal with the promotion, will join Dave Branch, Danilo Villefort and Elvis Mutapcic in the 185-pound tournament, WSOF president Ray Sefo and executive vice president Ali Abdel-Aziz confirmed with MMAFighting.com.

One semi-final fight will take place at WSOF 4 on Aug. 10 and the other will happen at WSOF 5 in September. WSOF 4 is slated to be held in California, although a specific location has yet to be finalized. The promotion's fifth event has yet to receive a specific date or location.

The winners are currently scheduled to meet in December for the title.

Taylor (26-9), a former The Ultimate Fighter cast member, has bounced around the MMA world since leaving the UFC in 2008. He has won his last six fights in a row, most recently defending the Cage Warriors middleweight crown earlier this month.

Speaking of champions, Mutapcic (13-2) left the Maximum Fighting Championship as their middleweight champion when he signed with WSOF last month. He has won his last five fights in a row.

Branch (12-3) is 2-0 under the WSOF banner, while Villefort (14-4) won his promotional debut at WSOF 2.

The entire tournament will air on NBC Sports Network.

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branch 2-0 in wsof vs jacoby and vs filho



villefort 1-0 in wsof



mutapcic the mfc 185 title holder



jesse taylor cage warriors 185 champ

nice little gp....

wsof 3 june

wsof4 august-first round

wsof 5 september-first round

wsof 6 december -finals

not confirmed but sounds like taylor vs mutapcic and branch vs danillo

Great to hear they are going to start tournaments for their titles. I'm pulling for Mutapcic.

Where is Thales Leites?

CDF47 wrote:Great to hear they are going to start tournaments for their titles. I'm pulling for Mutapcic.

Where is Thales Leites?

leites is not with wsof....they offered him a spot in the mini gp, and apparently he said he wasnt that interested in fighting mma right now, so they preceed to sign the cage warrior champ jesse taylor!!!

leites has to drop in the rankings beacuse of inactivity

CDF47 wrote:Great to hear they are going to start tournaments for their titles. I'm pulling for Mutapcic.

Where is Thales Leites?

mutapcic is a beast but he has to avoid jt's wrestling if they face each other

MR.WILLIE wrote:

CDF47 wrote:Great to hear they are going to start tournaments for their titles. I'm pulling for Mutapcic.

Where is Thales Leites?

leites is not with wsof....they offered him a spot in the mini gp, and apparently he said he wasnt that interested in fighting mma right now, so they preceed to sign the cage warrior champ jesse taylor!!!

leites has to drop in the rankings beacuse of inactivity

That sucks but is good to know...he will be taking a rankings dive...glad they got the cwfc champ to replace him.

MR.WILLIE wrote:

CDF47 wrote:Great to hear they are going to start tournaments for their titles. I'm pulling for Mutapcic.

Where is Thales Leites?

mutapcic is a beast but he has to avoid jt's wrestling if they face each other

Yeah jt is going to be a good test for him