Jon Jones fighting Machida at UFC 140 now instead of rashad

Yup

Boom! It's up on UFC.com and Dana's Twitter. Thus fight sounds much better than Bones and Rashad. If I had to listen to that lame smack talk from those two I would go watch the WNBA instead.

So much for Dana being passive aggressive on Machida for asking for money...

I bet it was Jones who requested to fight machida instead of rashad....just saying

WHAT IN THE FUCK!~?!

Quote :

Machida's last bout was a knockout of Randy Couture in May. When Phil Davis fell out of his August bout with Rashad Evans, Machida was approached to fill in on short notice, but he asked for too much money and the UFC brought in Tito Ortiz, instead. Machida, who is 1-2 in his last three fights, now gets a title shot.
Once again, Rashad Evans, who has been "next in line" for a title shot since beating Jackson last May, is once again pushed to the side. He has been rehabilitating a broken hand. Pins were removed yesterday, and he could start training in three weeks.
Unfortunately, that's not quick enough for the UFC, who was in need of a main event for the Toronto event. This is the promotion's second trip to Toronto this year, and they needed to make a splash. With tickets on sale next week, a main event was needed to sell it, and Evans was the big loser.
Better planning could have prevented this. Between Aug. 27 and Nov. 12, every UFC belt has been or will be contested. Instead of jamming so much into this time period, the UFC could have looked ahead to their Toronto event and planned a title defense for it, or put the Brock Lesnar vs. Alistair Overeem fight as the main event.

SICK! I love this fight, man that Toronto card is amazing!

I am seriously pi$$ed off right now... 'Shad never gets a break maaaan! So much for the Lyoto being punished bull$hytt.

This seriously sucks... Bones will destroy Machida. 'Shad better get his title shot next year in April!!

Does anyone know whey the Rashad fight is off?

The only thing I have read is that they needed a main event for 140 and Rashad presumably wouldn't be ready that soon...

Uhg. I'm bummed about this. Machida is going to get pwnd.

I actually give 'Shad more of a chance then Lyoto against Jones.

How in the fuck is Machida even close to deserving? THIS IS FUCKED beyoND fuCKED!

He beat a withered Couture who was fresh off a spectacular finish over a top 5 HW in James Toney..... of course now it all makes sense....

yea, machida is not deserving, but right now im overwhelmed by the thought of machida getting destroyed. cant live with that.
jones will take him down and overpower him.

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LOL, yeah pretty much; plus he lost to Rampage before beating Randy. We have all said it before, the UFC and Joe Silva do not need to justify any fight they make to all of us hardcore fans. As long as they can market the fight and sell it that is all that matters to them. It is interesting because Lyoto brings a different dynamic to a fight against Jones than Rashad wouldn't have.

Granted each fighter has his own pros and cons in regards to style, but seeing Jones fight Rashad honestly did nothing for me. However, seeing what Jones did to Shogun makes me fear for Lyoto's well being after seeing what Shogun did to Lyoto in there second fight.

Jones via Vicsious KO FTW!

Machida is 1-2 in his last 3 fights... He is not deserving.. and he put a gun to Dana's head wanting "Anderson Silva Money" and the Karate Sumbytch still gets a title shot.

Jones better destroy him in a spinning head kick type fashion.

LOL<

Makes me feel somewhat bad for Rashad, bt then again doesn't surprise me in regards to the talkign Rashad did when there fight was first announced. The really crappy thing is the longer the fight between Rashad and Jones is delayed the longer we all have to listen to Rashad run his mouth about Jones.

This is just funny now at this point!

I officially don't even care anymore if Jones ever fights Rashad. It's like they're both taking turns avoiding each other.

I'm over it. I hope one of them loses their next fight so we don't have to hear any more about this Greg Jackson love triangle bullshit.


On a side note, it appears that (for a change) Rashad isn't butt-hurt over this;

http://mmaweekly.com/rashad-evans-issues-statement-on-lyoto-machida-leap-frogging-him-into-ufc-140-title-fight