WEC Champ Mike Thomas Brown Talks Jose Aldo, Kimbo Slice Gun Rumor

WEC featherweight champion Mike Thomas Brown (18-4) joined Fighters.com’s radio partner MMA Gospel Saturday for discussion of his upcoming title defense versus Nova Uniao’s “Junior” Jose Aldo (14-1) at WEC 44 in Las Vegas November 18.

MMA Gospel host “Reverend” Turk Vangel confronted Brown with the rumor that “Kimbo Slice” Kevin Ferguson (3-1) brought a gun into the American Top Team gym at which both Brown and Slice train after Slice was tapped out during a sparring session.

“It didn’t happen.  I was there that day,” Brown denied the rumor.  In fact, he thinks the rumor is hilarious.  He chuckled and remarked, “That’d be pretty crazy!  Like, ‘Whoa!  No one tap out Kimbo!’”

Brown called Slice a humble guy.  “If you watch him, you’ll notice he never insults anybody.  As much as people talk about him, he never responds to them.”

Brown will defend his WEC title for the third time versus Aldo and he related the difficulty preparing for the Brazilian fighter who fought primarily in small shows in Brazil before debuting in the WEC last year.  Brown said because Aldo has been ripping through the division so quickly – fighting just six minutes in his last three stoppage victories – there’s not a lot of good video on Aldo.

“We don’t know how he is on the ground yet,” Brown stated.

Brown also indicated the only additional training he’s doing for the fight is knee defense.  “If you fight your game well, you don’t have to worry too much about their game,” Brown stated.

Brown is excited about the prospect of a 2010 WEC pay per view event and is open to moving up to lightweight to fight WEC champ “Worm” Jamie Varner (16-3) or down to featherweight to fight champ Brian Bowles (8-0) or former champ Miguel Torres (36-2).

“All I care about at this time in my career is to take fights the fans care about.  No matter who it is. Where we both get paid, because you have a limited amount of time to accumulate wealth in this sport,” said Brown.

WEC 44 will take place at The Pearl at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas November 18.

MMA Gospel can be heard every Saturday from 5:00-7:00 PM at MMAGospel.com.  “Reverend” Turk Vangel of MMA Gospel contributed to this report.