"(The light heavyweight) division is interesting. There's so many guys at 205, (but) Rampage is probably next in line. Rampage is still in the mix. You've got Jon Jones fighting Bader, which is going to be a great fight that catapults one of those guys into the top five. The big problem with the 205-pound division has been, Shogun's injury has been clogging up the division. So now he's healthy and gonna fight, and we're getting everything rolling here."
If you thought
Jon Jones vs Ryan Bader was going to be a number one contender fight then it looks like you were wrong. At a recent Q & A session (via
MMAFighting.com) UFC President Dana White proclaimed that
Quinton Jackson is the guy who is most likely to earn the next shot at the light heavyweight strap. That is of course, dependent upon his getting through a tough challenge against
Thiago Silva at
UFC 130 over the Memorial Day weekend. If "Rampage" beats his Brazilian opponent on May 28, should he get the winner of "Shogun" Rua vs
Rashad Evans at
UFC 128? Which rematch is more intriguing?
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