Where the heck is Chris Horodecki?

Anybody notice anything strange or unusual about this poster for WEC 45? Like that there are three fights/six fighters listed but only five fighters’ photos. Where the heck is Chris Horodecki? If they knew his name in time to put that on the poster there should have been time to Photoshop in an image, too. It just looks bizarre to only see five fighters. Maybe the baby-faced IFL vet just didn’t look menacing enough. Horodecki (13-1) was scheduled to face Dan Lauzon at Affliction: Trilogy until the promotion closed up shop and he now faces Anthony Njokuani (11-2 MMA; 2-1 WEC).

That said, this is a good card for a WEC card. The headliner between Greg Jackson student and Muay Thai striker Donald Cerrone (10-2 MMA, 3-2 WEC) and karate fighter Ed Ratcliff (7-1 MMA, 3-1 WEC) has barnburner potential, although I wouldn’t expect anything close to the fight-of-the-year-level five-round battle Cerrone fought with Ben “Bendo” Henderson at WEC 43. And with Cerrone walking away from that bout without the interim lightweight title he’ll be hungry to get back on track with a win. (As a side note, it’s strange to refer to an MMA fighter as a karate fighter or karate stylist; we can thank Lyoto Machida for making the art cool again.)

Also on the card is a bantamweight bout between DREAM vet and Urijah Faber training partner Joseph Benavidez (10-1 MMA, 2-1 WEC) and K-1 Hero’s vet and ADCC sub wrestling champion Rani Yahya (15-4 MMA, 4-1 WEC).