The UFC is back to “business as usual” for another weekend of top-notch UFC action, only this time they’re bringing the MMA World an action-packed night of fights on free TV from the United Center in Chicago, Illinois in what is is the UFC’s real debut on FOX.

The Chicago-based event, taking place this Saturday night, will feature a Facebook-only fight between Chris Camozzi and Dustin Jacoby, as well as a six-fight card for people with Fox Deportes or Fuel TV (or both) as part of their cable package, before the start of the three-fight main card on FOX.

The main card opens with Demian Maia’s attempt to derail the momentum train of fast-rising Chris Weidman, and closes out with two title eliminators.

First, Chael Sonnen defends what he claims is the true Middleweight title against a man who feels he’s finally ready to take the physical belt and pound-for-pound prestige from Anderson “The Spider” Silva in two-time TUF coach and TUF 3 Light Heavyweight winner Michael Bisping, with the winner getting a no-questions-asked shot at Anderson Silva‘s UFC Middleweight title.

Finally, the likely headliner of UFC 145 will be decided as former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion “Suga” Rashad Evans presents himself as the toughest challenge to date for undefeated 9-0 Phil “Mr. Wonderful” Davis, with Rashad getting UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones if he blemishes Davis’ perfect record, and MMA legend Dan Henderson getting Jones in Atlanta if Davis improves to 10-0 against Evans.

From the opening bell until the dying seconds of the action, we’ve got it all on lock for UFC on FOX 2 at Bleacher Report MMA, and Yours Truly has the honor of dishing out every detail of the action!

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Ronda Rousey, who has never been one to shy away from the media, is making headlines for past comments about Georges St-Pierre.

In an interview with BestofMMA.com, the breakout female superstar had strong words for the UFC welterweight champion.

“[MMA] is about entertainment. It’s not the Olympics. It’s not just about coming home and bringing a medal in, you know, just having hardware and getting a win. It’s about bringing more fans in. I think that fighters who just try to win by points are actually bad for the sport. If you never saw MMA before and you walked in and saw GSP and Koscheck just jabbing out the whole time, it looks like a boring boxing match, and I don’t think you gain any fans with a fight like that. I really hope that Nick Diaz beats the crap out him.”

Rousey is an accomplished Judo player and former Olympian, but with only a professional MMA record of 4-0, it’s amazing how quickly she has risen through the fight ranks.

There has never truly been a villain in women’s MMA, but Rousey could certainly be the first. The trash talk helped her leapfrog former Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion Sarah Kaufman in the title picture.

It’s easy to see that Diaz is one of Rousey’s favorite fighters. She seems to be taking a page out of his book in using the media to call out world-class names to get big fights.

“Nick Diaz is entertaining. He’s just an entertaining character in general. He might not be popular, but I can’t help but watch every single video that he puts out on YouTube. I think it’s funny as hell, and every single one of his fights is a brawl. It’s not like a pitter-pat match, and afterwards he goes like, ‘Oh yes, we’re friends, we’re all friends, blah, blah, blah, buy Gatorade, ok, let’s go home.’ I think it’s boring. GSP was good for the sport for awhile. He brought some big sponsors in like Gatorade and Under Armour, but I think he’s done everything he can in a positive way, and he needs to step aside and let Nick Diaz kick his ass.”

Talking about someone’s ass getting kicked, Rousey’s will be on the line in her March 3 bout against Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate.

The talk between the two continues to boil over into what could become the biggest female fight of the year.

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Junior Dos Santos is the top heavyweight in the UFC and what seems like an unstoppable force.

In his next fight, he will face Alistair Overeem, who will give him his biggest test when it comes to striking, as the Dutch kickboxer tries to stop the champion’s boxing.

In many ways, he can remind MMA fans of a dominant Wladimir Klitschko. But when he faces Overeem, it might be one of the two that boxing fans have seen through the years.

I believe that Overeem’s striking is more complete then Dos Santos’ boxing, but that is just a personal opinion.

It very well could end with Dos Santos knocking out the challenger or proving that he has a better ground game than fans expected.

There is also a chance that he will not be able to handle the kicks of Overeem and get beaten that way.

Either way represents a part of Wladimir Klitschko’s career. One part of Klitschko’s career is one of dominance, but the part before that is one filled with devastating losses that taught him how to be a better fighter.

Now Klitschko is a current champion, but he faced defeat as a title holder to two people: Corrie Sanders and Lamon Brewster.

In the Sanders fight Klitschko just got caught by a powerful puncher. 

In the fight with Brewster he spent too much energy too quickly and got beaten. Dos Santos has to be wary that he doesn’t make the same mistake.

Junior Dos Santos was exhausted after battering Roy Nelson for three rounds. When he wasn’t able to knock out his opponent, he was unable to conserve his energy.

The same thing happened to Klitschko when he fought Brewster, but after the fight he learned how to pace himself in fights and not looking for the knockout. The only problem is that it made his fights boring and predictable.

This is the one place where Junior Dos Santos is different.  The young heavyweight will continue to be dynamic in the cage, lose or win. He will just learn to implement more skills as he fights instead of sticking to his boxing.

It all comes down to the Overeem fight. That match will tell fans exactly where Dos Santos is in terms of growth.

He is either shaping up to be a world champion fighter who has a lesson to learn and mature from or he is going to show fans that he is better then they realized.

And if he does win or learns from the mistake he may become like Klitschko in another sense. A champion who the fans see as having no challenges and who face little struggle in their fights.

Hopefully, that is never the case.

Matthew Hemphill writes for the MMA and professional wrestling portion of Bleacher Report.  He also hosts a blog elbaexiled.blogspot.com which focuses on books, music, comic books, video games, film, and generally anything that could be related to the realms of nerdom.

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