Nog vs Ramapge rumor!

Nogueira’s boxing coach, Luis Carlos Dórea spoke to Tatame Magazine and revealed:

“It’s set that he’ll be back in September, and rumors point that his opponent might be Quinton Jackson. It’d be a great fight for Rogério, he’s a former UFC champion and a victory over him will move us pretty close to the title. The UFC only has top athletes and Quinton Jackson is really dangerous. It’d be a great fight, but the UFC didn’t confirmed anything yet.”

“He’s a complete athlete, hard to be taken down… Who puts its own strategy on the fight will win, but we believe a lot on Rogerio’s movement… We’ll work hard to get this victory”,

Joe Silva needs to make up his mind, how he is going to match Machida/Forrest/Nog/Rampage.

Over the last few weeks all 4 guys have said their fighting the other guys


Machida says Forrest, then says Rampage because Forrst had surgery.

Rampage wants Forrest.

Nog said he has no problem fighting teammate Machida, expects to to have forrest fight which was canceled, and now his coach says its Rampage?

Its all a mess, they should just book Machida-Rampage and Forrest-Nog. IMO

Shogun Rua Out Until March,2011

LAS VEGAS- Rashad Evans won a light-heavyweight championship title opportunity when he beat Quinton "Rampage" Jackson in May, but he's going to have to wait a while to cash in his golden ticket.

UFC President Dana White confirmed Thursday that current champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua won't be back in the octagon for another eight months, likely returning in March 2011.

Still, White took that as good news, saying that his surgically repaired knee is healing well since a recent surgery.


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"Shogun's great, his knee's coming along great," White said just after the UFC 116 pre-fight press conference. "It's all good."

Rua (19-4) captured the title at UFC 113 in May, when he avenged an earlier controversy loss to Lyoto Machida by becoming the first man to defeat him. The Muay Thai stylist knocked out Machida in just 3:35 to take the belt.

Meanwhile in the division, a rumored matchup pitting the aformentioned Jackson against Antonio Rogerio Nogueira has not been put together by the company, as has been reported by some MMA news outlets.

"It's not true, we don't have anything set up yet," White said. "With that division right now, Little Nog could fight Rampage, Rampage could fight Machida. There's a lot of fights we could make and we haven't made any decisions on that fight."

Asked if Nogueira-Jackson is being seriously considered by the UFC, White held his cards to the vest.

"We're looking at all of them," he said. "Time-wise, Rampage is still promoting the [A-Team] movie overseas, so we're trying to figure out what the next fight will be."

looks like another Interim belt on the horizon

So Randy vs tito for the interim belt then

No,I'd like to see Rampage v Machida and Rashad v Lil Nog with the winners fighting for the Interim belt.

Though In 8 months time I expect Bones Jones to be knocking on the door,aswell as Bader,more so Bones.

As much as alot of you hate it,Randy has to be mentioned aswell.

So hopefully Randy gets through Toney no problems,then I'd like to see Bones and Randy take on the two losers from the two main fights I'm hoping for.

No sod it,What am I thinking,Randy to beat Toney,then give him Tito to school again,then he will be ready to be Shoguns 1st fight back,takes the Title and retires as champ,job done