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Rampage

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Thiago

Bloodyelbow.com is saying that we'll Wanderlei Silva vs. Quinton "Rampage" Jackson at UFC 92 on Dec. 27 (Web sites had previously said the fight would be at UFC 91) and Thiago Silva vs. Lyoto Machida at UFC 93 on Jan. 31.

Two tremendous fights there with four of the top LHW fighters in the world. After Rashad takes on Forrest for the LHW title, maybe what will happen is the winners of these two bouts will fight each other to see who faces the champ.

One thing to keep in mind with T. Silva vs. Machida is that both fighters are undefeated, so one of e'm is walking away with an L, which sucks because I'm a fan of both of them. But, hey a win gets them one step closer to a title shot.

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All right, so by now you've probably heard that Rashad Evans knocked out Chuck Liddell. Cold. With one punch. As much as I don't care for Evans' showboating, you have to respect his abilities.

The first question is where does this leave The Iceman? Fighters can come back from devastating knockout losses. Wanderlei Silva did it - he had back-to-back knockout losses, courtesy of Cro Cop and Hendo. Before the fight with Rashad, Chuck talked about making another run at the title, implying that it would be a great way to end his career, but he also talked about fighting for years to come - a little Randy Couture, anyone?

Maybe it's time to get a new trainer. I know Chuck considers John Hackleman family, but something might need to be fixed. Jerod Phillips, who owns Tap or Sleep fightwear, hit the proverbial nail on the head: They finally started figuring Chuck out. He throws looping punches, and he keeps his hands down low. Couture, in their first meeting, got inside and dirty boxed him, evading the looping, yet dangerous bombs that Chuck can unleash.

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Parysian

Karo Parysian, set to face Ysohiyuki Yoshida tomorrow night at UFC 88, is injured, and the fight is scrapped.

Silva

Thiago Silva, scheduled to fight Lyoto Machida at UFC 89 in October, is also injured, and will not fight.

Both fighters reportedly suffered back injuries.

With the Silva-Machida fight, there's a chance somebody could step up and fight. I'll let you know as soon as I find out.

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Lyoto

From Tatame.com:
At UFC 89, two unbeatable fighters will colide on the duel that will put one of them to meet a loss for the first time. With 13 win in a perfect card, Thiago Silva won 11 by knockout, and that's why Lyoto Machida predicts a fast fight against him at UFC 88. "I believe this fight won't go to decision... Thiago likes to fight aggressively, me too, he has good MMA techniques, so I believe this fight might finish before the third round", said Lyoto, that is training hard. "I'm training a lot, actually I hadn't stop training since my last fight. Now I'm doing a specifically training focused on Thiago, preparing my strategies and working on the physical preparation... I'm very focused", said the athlete to TATAME.com.

Ted's Take: Man, I am psyched for this one. Both these guys are undefeated, tough, Brazilian fighters, with very different styles. Both are great on the ground, and Thiago is an agressive muay Thai striker, while Lyoto prefers to be, as many have said, "elusive," making his opponents miss and then counterstriking. I'm thinking whoever wins this one gets a title shot, probably after Chuck Liddell.

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Sherdog member "TanMan" started a thread on sherdog.com about MMA's current win streaks:

Fedor Emelianenko (WAMMA heavyweight champion)
26 Fight Win Streak

Paulo Filho (WEC middlewieght champion)
16 Fight Win Streak

Miguel Torres (WEC bantamweight champion)
15 Fight Win Streak

Lyoto Machida (top contender to UFC light heavyweight title)
13 Fight Win Streak

Thiago Silva (top contender to UFC light heavyweight title)
13 Fight Win Streak

Urijah Faber (WEC featherweight champion)
13 Fight Win Streak

Anderson Silva (UFC middleweight champion)
8 Fight Win Streak

TanMan writes: Anyways I have Thiago going down next. IMO Machida has better stand up, ground game, and game planning on his side. If Faber ever moves up I have him also

Ted's Take: TanMan forgot UFC light heavyweight Rashad Evans, who is fighting Chuck Liddell at UFC 88 - Breakthrough on Sept. 6. I say Rashad goes down first before anyone else on this list. I guess you could argue that Evans (11-0-1) does have a slight blemish on his record (a draw with Tito Ortiz), but he has yet to be defeated.

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