WEC 29
Paulo Filho vs. Joe Doerksen
August 5 2007 6:00 PM
Filho -550
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I have been a Joe Doerksen (39 - 9) fan forever now. He has long been an ambassador to mixed martial arts in Canada. I have been to a number of his seminars and seen him fight many times. On a grappling level, he is probably one of the best in Canada but he is facing one of the most skilled MMA fighters in the game today in Paulo Filho (14-0) at World Extreme Cagefighting WEC 29. He can easily match and better Doerksen's ground game; he is a Brazilian Top Team member for god sakes and his stand up is much more devastating and clean with the ability to do heavy damage.

Joe Doerksen is no slouch and has fought some great fighters in the past like Matt Lindland, Patrick Cote, Ed Herman, Joe Riggs, Chris Leben, Denis Kang, David Loiseau, Egan Inoue, Lee Murray, Matt Hughes, and Eugene Jackson. Though he has fought some great fighters Doerksen has not been about to beat a lot of the top fighters and has always been a star waiting to breakout.

In most cases where Doerksen faces a skilled striker he will usually take them to the ground and submit them; unfortunately Filho is better on the ground. Doerksen is past his prime and is fighting and a rising MMA superstar in Filho.

Paulo Filho is still undefeated in mixed martial arts and has beat some very good fighters like Kazuo Misaki, Ryo Chonan, Murilo Rua, Amar Suloev, Daijiro Matsui, Yuki Kondo, Ikuhisa Minowa and Akira Shoji (twice) who many believe is one of the best pound for pound MMA fighters in the world.

Bottom Line: Paulo Filho is one of the toughest fighters in the world and is on the rise while I'm sadly to say Joe Doerksen is on the downward spiral of his career. He does not have the ferocity that Filho does and he has a much more polished jujitsu game than Doerksen does.

Honestly this fight should be a walk in the park for Filho