It's fight day!� Which means while you and I are gathering provisions for tonight's UFC on FOX 4 ? you know, things like avocados for fresh guacamole, cases of TAB soda and Kleenex for the tears that are sure to come ? there are twenty fighters in a hotel in Los Angeles milling about with butterflies in their stomachs, anxious to punch each other in the face.� Hooray!� But despite the violence that's impending on Fuel TV (the preliminary bouts start at 5:00 p.m. EST) and FOX (main card at 8:00 p.m. EST), the news cycle trudges on.� Here, then, are some headlines.
- Although he's fighting in the 205-pound weight class tonight in the co-main event, the simple fact that former UFC light-heavyweight champ Lyoto Machida stepped on the scale at 201 pounds has got people speculating he could move down to the 185-pound division.� My personal policy is to never fix something that isn't broke, but hey, what do I know.
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- When last we saw UFC featherweight contender Chad Mendes, he was squashing Cody McKenzie like a bug at UFC 148.� When the police last saw Mendes, he was fleeing a 40-person bar fight.� Yikes.� A 40-person bar fight?� See, this is why I only hang out at Chuck E. Cheese.� When little kids brawl, it's harmless.
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- Fellow scribe Kevin Iole reported yesterday that UFC light-heavyweight Matt Hamill has decided to fight again.� Awesome.� And let's not forget, Hamill is the only person to ever defeat UFC champ Jon Jones, so be excited for that future match-up.
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That's all for now.� I'll be tweeting my observations of the fights tonight as they happen.� Follow along if you want.� A word of caution, though: as a devout Native American, I'll be undertaking a cleansing ritual at the same time (they're wheeling a TV into the sweat lodge) ? but I'll try to keep the hallucinatory stuff under control.
