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Quinton "Rampage" Jackson has come a long way since his first fight in Japan. "I was broke as hell," Jackson recalls, harkening back to his 2001 encounter with pro-wrestling icon Kazushi Sakuraba. "I was just winging it. I didn't know nothing about nothing. I was just going over there to make some money."

Ohio regulators won't let middleweight Derek Brunson fight on next week's Strikeforce card because of his vision, he says. Brunson was scheduled to fight former champion Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza on March 3 in Columbus, Ohio. But Strikeforce on Tuesday announced Brunson had been removed from the card for medical reasons.

UFC 144 will indeed be a dynamic event and the first time the UFC has ventured into Japan since December of 2000. The Lightweight Title fight main event will showcase the challenger, Benson Henderson, squaring off with the current defending champion, Frankie Edgar, in what is sure to be a crowd pleasing affair.

Verbal agreements are in place for a lightweight match between England's undefeated submission specialist Paul Sass and Jacob Volkmann at UFC 146 in Las Vegas.

Amanda Lucas, the daughter of "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, won again in Japan this weekend. She beat up on Yumiko Hotta for two and a half rounds before submitting her with a keylock.

"No, we’re not doing anything PRIDE." UFC President Dana White, launching a verbal missile at hardcore MMA fans in Japan, and those closer to home at MMA message boards across the web. When Danabehemoth worth an estimated billion dollars - it wasn't just a fading and failing business. Worse than that. It wasn't even the top promotion in its field. That honor belonged to the dearly-departed, not-soon-forgotten, Pride Fighting Championship.

Anderson Silva has breathed new life into talk of a potential superfight with Georges St-Pierre, confessing the Canadian is "the best fight" on his radar. Silva would not, however, entertain taking on the man tipped to take over his throne as the sport's No. 1 pound-for-pounder, Jon Jones.

Sad news this week in the kickboxing world - K-1 great Mike Bernardo has passed away. The longtime K-1 veteran died in his hometown of Cape Town, South Africa at the age of 42. Further details on his death are not known at this time.

The UFC comes to Saitama, Japan next weekend with UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson in the UFC's first event in Japan under Zuffa ownership. The card has been described by many as a vanity project, a card put on simply so the UFC can say they put one on in Japan. "Do I think this is going to be a PRIDE event and 100,000 people are going to show up, and it's going to be (like that)? No, I don't think that. But I think that there is a fanbase there for the UFC," White said in an interview with MMAJunkie.com.

Canadian Veteran Mixed Martial Artist Gary Goodridge has been diagnosed with early onset chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or pugilistic dementia. The fomer UFC, Pride and K-1 kickboxing star has been promoting the book "Gatekeeper: The Fighting Life of Gary Goodridge" in 2012 and he recently admitted to having significant memory problems and was on a series of medications.