Ultimate Fighter Alum and IFL veteran Alex Schoenauer is rumoured to have replaced Mark Munoz at WEC 36. He will be fighting against Steven Steinbeiss on September 10th in Hollywood, Florida.

Schoenauer, who lost to IFL light heavyweight champion Vladimir Matyushenko was last seen fighting for the Palace Fighting Championship and last won a match in April. His opponent Stenbeiss was a BODOG fighter for sometime and has a 4-1 fight record, has been fighting in smaller venues for sometime now. He was scheduled to fight touted Light Heavyweight Mark Munoz, who fell out of the card due to a knee injury sustained during practice, was someone everyone was really looking forward to seeing again after his impressive victory against Chuck Grisby at WEC 34.

My money’s on Schoenauer. What about you?

IFL champion may soon become the latest of the now defunct IFL champions to sign up with Affliction and although talks are still ongoing, Hieron, who trains at Extreme Couture, has verbally agreed to fight Drew Fickett. Sherdog.com was the first to cite this rumour. Hieron has literally dismantled the rest of the IFL welterweight division recently steamrolling through Mark Miller via TKO in the first round. Fickett, who has recently been in the news for his showdown with MFC’s Mark Pavelish, is a game opponent who is trying to get his career back on track. He recently lost Richard Viles, a fighter not too many people knew about at Rumble In The Cage and will be trying to get a win under his belt against the very dangerous Hieron. Many people believed that Jay Hieron might be one of the fighters that the UFC might be trying to get back in its fold and it looks like Hieron who has reportedly got a lot of offers from varied promotions is finally a hot commodity in the open MMA market. Rumour soon to turn reality? You decide.