Rashad Evans: I don't want to be like Brandon Vera; light heavyweight is my home

So he tells Duane Finley:

"I'm kind of on the smaller end of things. I'm 5'11 and I walk around at 225 lb. so I'm not really that big. If I go to 185 lb. I probably wouldn't still be all that big and it would be difficult to make the weight and if I jumped up to heavyweight then I would be a munchkin. It would be fun to do because any fights taken in those divisions I could go into without any care and they would just be fun fights to do but at the same time I feel that light heavyweight is my home. I've been in this division and beat people that I wasn't expected to beat. I'm here because I'm scrappy as hell and resilient by nature but I did it all at light heavyweight. I feel that this is my home. I don't want to switch weight classes and lose my mojo. With all due respect I don't want to be like Brandon Vera. Like I said with all due respect and it's nothing against Brandon Vera but I don't want to lose that mojo."

He's staying, he's going, he's staying, he's going; which is it? Initially, Rashad Evans said that if his teammate and training partner, Jon Jones, defeated Mauricio Rua for the light heavyweight title at UFC 128, he would either move down to middleweight or jump up to heavyweight. But now that some time has passed and "Suga" has had a chance to think it over, he's decided 205-pounds is his home and he doesn't want to end up like Brandon Vera. "The Truth" came into the game with delusions of grandeur, thinking he could overrun two separate weight classes. As it turned out, he couldn't cut it in either, as evidenced by his recent exile from the UFC. Whether a technicality brings him back or not, the lesson remains and Evans, an intelligent man by all estimations, certainly doesn't want to make the same mistakes. But if he sticks around at light heavyweight, that might mean finally making the decision to go up against a fellow Greg Jackson fighter -- something Grudge Training coach, Trevor Wittman, thinks wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. Rapidly approaching a career crossroads, what decision do you believe Evans will ultimately make? And what is the right way to go? Should he go against the Team Jackson edict and do what's best for him?