Maybe Claude Patrick is UFC bound

Now Five Ounces of Pain is reporting that IFL vet Claude Patrick is in negotiations with the UFC. It’s a done deal, the way it’s reported, with his octagon debut expected for UFC 115 in Vancouver.

Yesterday, I wrote that I’d heard the same rumour, and although Patrick denied it in an e-mail he sent me, I suspected that there was something to it and he just didn’t want to tip his hand. I’ve reached out to the Toronto fighter again to see if I can’t get something a little more concrete.

Patrick is an 11-1 welterweight whose lone loss was to Drew McFedries in a 185-pound tilt. He’s got heavy hands and some slick submissions (I believe he’s a jiu-jitsu brown belt now), and would make life difficult for fighters in the UFC’s welterweight division.