WSOF plans lightweight tourney to crown champ

With a mini-middleweight tournament already set, World Series of Fighting is planning a similar lightweight one.

According to WSOF matchmaker and executive vice president Al Abdel-Aziz, if Nick Newell defeats Keon Caldwell at WSOF 4 on Aug. 10, he'll join Justin Gaethje, Dan Lauzon and the winner of WSOF 4's JZ Cavalcante vs. Tyson Griffin fight in a four-man 155-pound tournament to crown the promotion's first lightweight champion.

The two semi-final fights will "most likely" take place on the same card at the end of the year. Following August's card, the promotion has three more events scheduled for 2013 in September, October and December.

Newell (9-0) will make his highly-anticipated WSOF debut next weekend, while Lauzon (17-4) and Gaethje (9-0) were both victorious at WSOF 3 in June.

Newell gained notoriety because he is missing a hand, but Abdel-Aziz wanted the MMA community to know how highly the organization thinks of the 27-year-old.

"We believe in him," he said. "He can compete with anyone in the world."

WSOF will hold a four-man middleweight tournament at WSOF 5 in September. The match-ups will be: Dave Branch vs. Danillo Villefort and Elvis Mutapcic vs. Jesse Taylor. The winner of the tournament will become the promotion's first middleweight champion.

http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/7/30/4571274/world-series-of-fighting-plans-lightweight-tournament-to-crown-first

wow

newell/caldwell winner

griffin/jz winner

gaethje

lauzon

nice group

also they have wsof 5 september, wsof 6 oct and wsof 7 dec

jacob volkmann would most likely be an alternate

Gaethje wins with ease, imo.

Love these tournaments for the titles.  Great move by WSOF. 

Going with Gaethje.