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If signed, it would be a battle of former UFC light-heavyweight champions, but a reported
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson vs.
Lyoto Machida matchup has yet to be officially added to the UFC calendar.
That's the word coming from UFC President Dana White, who responded to an MMA Fighting inquiry about whether the bout was finalized with a text reading "Not yet."
Still, at least one of the fighters has agreed to it. A source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to MMA Fighting that Jackson has agreed to the November bout.
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UFC 123 is headed to Auburn Hills, Michigan.
That's the word from UFC president Dana White, who told MMA Fighting that the finalization of a deal to bring the Nov. 20 event to The Palace of Auburn Hills in the Detroit suburb closed on Wednesday morning.
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Quinton "Rampage" Jackson's growing celebrity makes him one of the few MMA stars who can do the late-night circuit to promote his fighting career. On Thursday night, Jackson appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to discuss his upcoming
UFC 123 fight with
Lyoto Machida.
A smiling Jackson appeared well at ease joking around with Ferguson, and while the conversation veered to different topics at times, Jackson did get to take a jab at Machida's style during his appearance. After being asked by Ferguson what he knew about Machida, Jackson laughed.
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The
UFC 123 fight card features a double main event with
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson vs.
Lyoto Machida and
Matt Hughes vs.
BJ Penn on Nov. 20 from the Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Mich.
Two preliminary bouts will air on Spike TV at 9 p.m. ET followed by the pay-per-view at 10 p.m. ET.
The complete fight card is below.
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DETROIT -- MMA Fighting spoke to
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson on Thursday about his
UFC 123 fight against
Lyoto Machida. Jackson talked about what went wrong in his last loss, his mindset going into this fight and why he would be interested in pursuing a WWE career in the future.
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DETROIT -- MMA Fighting spoke to
Lyoto Machida at Thursday's
UFC 123 pre-fight workouts about why he trained at the American Kickboxing Academy for this fight, how he got over his first professional loss and why he doesn't care that his opponent,
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, calls his style "boring."
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In at least one way,
UFC 123 is already a disappointment. To me, anyway.
I would have thought that when you put Lyoto Machida - a fighter known for drinking his own urine - together with "Rampage" Jackson - a fighter known for his played out bad breath jokes - we would have had comedy gold by now. I would have thought the combination of necessity and opportunity would help break some new ground in the field of bad breath jokes. Sort of like the polio vaccine, only much, much less helpful to society.
No such luck so far. Guess that means we'll have to put our hopes in the fights themselves to entertain us. Let's start with a look at how oddsmakers think Saturday night's event will play out, along with some suggestions on where they might be wrong.
Lyoto Machida (-280) vs. Quinton "Rampage" Jackson (+220)
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If nothing else, you have to respect "Rampage" Jackson's honesty at
UFC 123. He thought he took something resembling a butt-whoopin' from Lyoto Machida, at least in the final round, and he had no problem saying so.
That's refreshing, I have to admit. The suggestion that the two should have an immediate rematch? That just makes my head hurt.
The fight was interesting, in a way, though not exactly thrilling. Seeing them do it again wouldn't help pay-per-view sales or the crowded light heavyweight division, which is probably why UFC president Dana White mercifully intervened with other ideas. It just goes to show that sometimes it's a good thing to have an opinionated guy at the top with veto power and the will to use it. Sometimes.
Now on to the winners, losers, and everything else in between after UFC 123.
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If you walked up to a 175-pound fighter with no pro bouts to his credit and asked him if he wanted to fight 205-pound
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson for a hundred bucks on a week's notice, chances are he'd look at you like you'd just declared yourself to be the rightful king of England.
That's today. That's the state of the fight game in 2010. But back in Memphis, Tenn. in 1999, that exact same proposal didn't seem so bad when it was put to
Mike Pyle.
"I was set to fight someone in my weight class," Pyle remembers. "I was 175 pounds soaking wet, with my gi on. My opponent had gotten hurt at a jiu-jitsu tournament a week before. Why the hell he was doing a jiu-jitsu tournament a week before, I don't know, but the promoter...called me and said, 'Hey, there's a problem. Your boy got hurt, so how about Rampage?' I was like, okay, let's do it. That was all it took."
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Quinton "Rampage" Jackson did indeed turn down a chance to fight
Mauricio "Shogun" Rua for the UFC light heavyweight title at
UFC 128, Jackson confirmed via
his Twitter earlier today, but it's the reason he turned it down that gives us an insight into the current state of his MMA career.
"I turned down the fight cause of short notice,I would have 2 lose 45 lbs n 4 weeks,u would have 2 be a fighter 2 understand,life goes on," Jackson tweeted on Tuesday.
Of course, after he turned down the chance to step in for the injured
Rashad Evans, the UFC offered it to Evans' teammate,
Jon Jones, who was only too happy to seize the opportunity. So what does that tell us, aside from the fact that Jackson is walking around closer to the heavyweight limit than the light heavyweight one?
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Former UFC light heavyweight champ
Rashad Evans has not been offered a fight with
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson at
UFC 130 in May, Evans' manager, Malki Kawa, told MMA Fighting on Wednesday.
After
MMA Weekly reported earlier in the day that Jackson's original opponent for that event,
Thiago Silva, had been forced off the card, rumors circulated that Evans could be tapped as a replacement on the May 28 fight card.
Those reports are premature, according to Evans' management. And yet, as of Wednesday afternoon there are still questions surrounding Silva's ability to participate in the bout.
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It would be easy for
Rashad Evans to sit around and second-guess himself these days. It would be easy to dwell on the what-ifs, or to wallow in the bitterness of recent events.
He waited the better part of a year for his title shot, forsaking other opportunities to fight and risking the ire of UFC president Dana White. With the fight less than two months away, a freak accident in training injured his knee and forced him out of the
UFC 128 main event. Now the UFC has shuffled
Jon Jones - Evans' own teammate - into the title fight in his place, leaving Evans' future as uncertain as ever.
"It's hard," said Evans. "Of course it's hard. I can't lie and say it's not hard or that I don't think sometimes, I wish it was me. I'd be lying if I said that. But I believe that everything happens for a reason."
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