This past Saturday "Suga" Rashad Evans defeated Quinton "Rampage" Jackson via unanimous decision with the judges scoring the bout 29–28, 30–27, 30–27. With this win Evans has been given the chance to face the new UFC light heavy champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in the near future. Of course, Evans was ecstatic due to the fact that he won the fight after months of trash talking and threats of knock outs from both corners. Rampage was however wasn't as ecstatic as Rashad as you can imagine. After all he was defeated by an opponent that, as he said, wasn't on his level.

At the UFC 114 press conference Rampage said one of the reasons that he lost the fight was due to the fact that he did the A- Team movie (coming out this summer) and he developed a case of ring rust(ring rust occurs when a fighter hasn't fought in a while and even after a good training camp can't perform at his or hers greatest potential ) and I agree with Rampage totally. He was out of the octagon for months at a time due to the A-Team movie and I do think that he wasn't at his full potential when he face Rashad Saturday. I think if Rampage had a few warm up fights or hadn't done the movie at all that he would have been more in tuned with the fight.  

At the press conference, when asked if there was still hostility between the two fighters, Rampage joyfully answered "Rashad can still kiss my @$$, I'm not a sore loser or nothing but he can still kiss my black @$$." Rashad felt the same way about Rampage when he was asked the same question seconds later replying in the same manner a Rampage, "I fell the same way man, he can kiss my @$$ to." Even with a room full of reporters, journalist and winning fighters from the main event fights filled with laughter it was apparently clear that there would be many more matches between Rampage and Rashad to come.

THA SKILL SET 1: The History

So now that I've explain to you the bad blood between Rashad and Rampage lets discuss the skill between the two. Both of these fighters are well known in the UFC.

Rampage didn't start in the UFC but in a league called PRIDE that was held in Japan. There his skills were put to the test against well rounded fighters such as the "Iceman" himself Chuck Liddell and "The Ax Murderer" Wanderlei Silva. In Pride he was know for the knockout power in both hands and his infamous power bomb slam which he used to beat mma fighter Ricardo Aron when he put Rampage in a Triangle choke.

Rampage has also been know to have a good ground game when he faced Olympic wrestler Dan Henderson the PRIDE Light Heavy weight champion in a unified title fight. The winner of the fight would have both the UFC and PRIDE light heavy weight championship. A lot of spectators saw that Rampage was the underdog of the fight due to the fact that he was mainly known for his stand up game (Boxing and any other techniques that are used to knockout the opponent while standing for the newbies). Dan Henderson was an Olympic Greco-wrestler for the 1992 and 1996 summer games. Everybody saw that Henderson's wrestling as the Achilles heel of Rampage in the upcoming fight, but Rampage quieted all of the of speculation of defeat that would be handed to him by Henderson by defeating him at UFC 75 and unifying the titles. In the bout he used very impressive wrestling skills to take Henderson down on multiple occasions during the fight which helped Rampage win the five round bout with a unanimous decision with the judges scoring the fight as 48–47, 49–46, 49–46. 

Even though Rampage has impressive victories under his belt, including being the UFC light heavy weight champion, Rashad Evans has an impressive track record as well leading up to this fight. Rashad, like Rampage, has held the light heavy weight championship title. He has also holds a knock out victory over the legend Chuck Liddell. Rashad got his big break when he competed on the second season of The Ultimate Fighter (T.U.F), the UFC's prime time reality T.V. program that grants the opportunity to young fighters such as Rashad at the time to go achieve their dream of winning a contract with the UFC. Rashad did that by beating all of the odds and overcoming the fact that he was the shortest (At 5 feet 11 inches) and the second lightest heavyweight of the nine competitors on the show. 

He won all three elimination matches by decision, and in every fight he was seen as the underdog. After defeating Brad Imes who stood 6ft 7 in tall he went on an undefeated streak where he defeated the likes of Michael "The Count" Bisping , Stephan Bonar, and of course Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell all these fights led up to Evans main event fight with the current UFC light heavy weight champion at the time, Forrest Griffin. Evans defeated Griffin in the third round after getting Griffin on his back and using vicious ground and pound and became the new light heavy weight champion of the UFC. 

UFC 114: THA MAIN EVENT

The topic of today is one of the biggest feuds between two talented fighters that has developed into one of the greatest grudge matches in a long time in UFC. I'm talking about the number one contendership match between Quinton"Rampage"Jackson and "Suga"Rashad Evans. 

As of May 8, Lyoto"The Dragon" Machida lost the Light Heavy weight championship to Mauricio"Shogun"Rua 2 minutes and 25 seconds into the first round. As of now "Shogun" is celebrating his victory over Machida but he will soon face one of the two men whose beef has gone far beyond the octagon. 

Rampage and Rashad started their beef after Rashad bested Forrest Griffin for the Light Heavy weight championship....a championship that was held by Rampage. Being the kind of guy that Rampage is, he asked for a chance at the title with the new champ, then got into Rashad's face at UFC 96 after beating Keith Jardine, who also happens to be close friends with Rashad, for a chance to face Rashad for the title where it could been seen that the two didn't have respect for each other, but that didn't matter since before his fight with Evans, he began to have lingering injuries which kept that fight from happening and helped put Machida to take Rampage's place in the championship fight. 

Let's just say that change didn't help Evans to keep the championship. Machida proved that Evans was as easy contest for him when he knocked out Rashad in a minute and 3 seconds into the second round at UFC 98. The damage was so bad Evans had to get surgery for the torn ligaments in his jaw that were cause by what...Machida's punches to the face. Even with a new champion, Rampage couldn't do anything for his title shot with his lingering pains. But the fact that when two men, especially black ones, who know how to fight and have defeated great fighters like themselves, even legends, and to top that off, they have aliases like Rampage and...well Suga isn't such a scary nickname..unless your in prison. But anyway, once there is beef, there will be beef between those men for a while. 

This was shown when Rampage and Evans became coaches on T.U.F (The Ultimate Fighter) where they took fighters under their wing to teach them in the best way they know how and hopefully get them the wins they needed to get a UFC contract, and that didn't go so well with Rampage considering that his team lost every single fight and I have to admit it, Rampage was a pretty sucky coach. The fact that Rashad was his teams opposing head coach made it even worse. There wasn't an episode where these two knuckle heads were in each others faces. 

But through all of the bickering, cussing and promises of @$$ whoppings and knockouts that would take place in the future it has lead to this fight that will take place on May 29,2010 at 10 PM at the Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena. UfC 114 ladies and gents... the winner of this fight might be the next UFC Light Heavy weight champion but until then its gonna be a great match. In my next log ill dis cuss the poll and what you should base your ideas on to cast your opinion.

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