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Wednesday night's Jose Aldo vs. Mike Brown fight shook up the featherweight division in mixed martial arts. When I interviewed Brown last week it looked like he was close to clearing out the featherweight division, but now that Aldo is the World Extreme Cagefighting featherweight champion, the division is a lot more interesting.

Who will get the first shot at Aldo's title? I think it'll be the winner of the WEC 46 bout between Urijah Faber and Rafael Assuncao, and I think Manny Gamburyan's win over Leonard Garcia on Wednesday night makes him a player in the featherweight division, too.

My featherweight rankings are below.

World Extreme Cagefighting is home to the best featherweights in MMA. Mike Brown is the undisputed champion of the world, he should have a great fight with Jose Aldo late this year, and Urijah Faber, the man Brown beat twice, is still probably the WEC's biggest draw.

But there's one problem with the WEC's featherweights: They're not doing enough to promote Wagnney Fabiano. You could make a case that Fabiano is more deserving of a title shot against Brown than Aldo is, and Fabiano certainly deserves to be heavily promoted as a future title contender. Instead, Fabiano's fight with Erik Koch next month isn't even on the live TV portion of the card.

It was the YouTube highlight that put the upstart Bellator Fighting Championships on the map, and it was an easy choice for our MMA Submission of the Half Year: Toby Imada choking out Jorge Masvidal with an inverted triangle.

During our FanHouse UFC 99 live chat, we got an interesting question from a reader: Who is the best young fighter in MMA? Mike Chiappetta and I discuss below.

Jens Pulver, the former UFC lightweight champion and longtime fan favorite, likely fought for the last time Sunday night at WEC 41 when he lasted less than a minute before being submitted by Josh Grispi.

Pulver, a featherweight who is one of the best small fighters in the history of the sport, has now lost six of his last seven fights -- and none of the losses was particularly close. At age 34, he simply doesn't have the same power and explosiveness that he had in his prime.

Jens Pulver, the World Extreme Cagefighting star and former UFC lightweight champion, will chat with FanHouse users on Monday, May 11 at 1 PM ET.

If you want to ask Jens about his upcoming fight with Josh Grispi at WEC 41, about his thoughts on the WEC 41 main event between Mike Brown and Urijah Faber, or about anything else in the world of MMA, this is the place and May 11 at 1 PM ET is the time.

The chat starts below.

Jens Pulver will fight Josh Grispi at WEC 41 on June 7, World Extreme Cagefighting officials confirmed to me Sunday.

The featherweight fight features an old veteran in the 34-year-old Pulver taking on a young up-and-comer in the 21-year-old Grispi. It will be the biggest fight in the career of Grispi, who has a 12-1 record, including 2-0 in the WEC, and it will be an opportunity for Pulver, who has lost five of his last six fights, to prove he still has something left.