- While in Toronto over the weekend, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua confirmed that he could be facing former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson at a UFC card in December, according to Mike Russell. The fight has yet to be confirmed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The rematch could find its way onto the same card as the B.J. Penn vs. Georges St. Pierre rematch, tentatively scheduled for Dec. 27. In their first outing at a PRIDE Fighting Championships event in 2005, Rua defeated Jackson in emphatic fashion, winning by first-round KO.

- FiveOuncesOfPain.com has confirmed that David "The Crow" Loiseau will take on Solomon Hutcherson in the main event of XMMA 5: It's Crow Time. The event is scheduled for Sept. 13 in Quebec. Other notable fighters on the card include Steve Claveau, Aaron Riley, Gustavo Machado and Guillaume de Lorenzi.

- Sherdog.com is reporting that Bart Palaszewski has accepted a multi-fight deal with World Extreme Cagefighting and could be debuting on the Sept. 10 card. Palaszewski has a 29-11 overall record, with 8-4 in the International Fight League. Palaszewski was a member of Pat Miletich's "Quad City Silverbacks" team. Following a five-fight winning streak, he lost his last three bouts as an IFL competitor, one of which was against lightweight standout Chris Horodecki (recently signed with Affliction). The signing was officially confirmed by Jeff Curran, the head of "Team Curran" where Palaszewski trains.

- As reported earlier today, a welterweight bout between UFC veteran Joe Riggs and Pride FC veteran Kazuo Misaki is official for Strikeforce's Sept. 20 event at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif. The event will be called "Strikeforce at the Mansion II."

- Georges St. Pierre and Jon Fitch earned $60,000 "Fight of the Night" honors at UFC 87: Seek and Destroy for their welterweight title main event. Demien Maia earned the same amount for "Submission of the Night" for his third-round rear naked choke stoppage of Jason MacDonald, while Rob Emerson took home the "Knockout of the Night" for his 12-second destruction of Manny Gamburyan.

- World Victory Road announced on Friday the final bout for the "Sengoku 4" card scheduled for Aug. 24 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Veteran mixed martial artists Kazuo Takahashi (28-23-3) and Valentjin Overeem (25-22) will collide in a heavyweight affair. The main event of the card pits top-ranked lightweight Takanori Gomi against Bang Seung Hwan. The show will consist primarily of the first round of an 8-man lightweight grand prix, featuring the debut of former IFL lightweight Ryan Schultz. Frank Trigg will also be competing as he takes on Makoto Takimoto.

- In addition, several fighters were confirmed to be a part of the next Sengoku card - "Sengoku 5" - to take place Sept. 28. The event will feature the first-round of an 8-man middleweight grand prix. Confirmed participants include PRIDE veteran Evangelista "Cyborg" Santos, 2007 Strikeforce middleweight tournament winner Jorge Santiago, former UFC fighter Kazuhiro Nakamura and Shooto light heavyweight champion Siyar Bahadurzada.

- In response to the allegations of Roger Huerta bashing the UFC, "El Matador" said at the UFC 87 post-fight press conference, "I was never saying the UFC is bad. If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for their $40 million in the hole, you guys wouldn't be here. We wouldn't be here. We wouldn't be looked at as professional athletes."

“All I was saying is that from a financial point of view, basically like a retirement plan or whatever, that I can only do this for so many years,” Huerta said. “You saw the fight today. Look at (Jon) Fitch. Look at myself. As a retirement plan, we can only do this for so long, and all I was saying, is that as a business decision – and you can’t argue about this – it’s in all businesses. If another company offers you something better for you and your family, you would do that. It’s the logical thing to do, and that’s all I was saying.”

- Blue Entertainment Sports Television (BEST) officially announced that it has signed WAMMA heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko. The Russian heavyweight will work with BEST for his marketing and television initiatives.

- Following a first-round win over Carlo Prater at WEC 35, Brock Larson told MMAWeekly.com that he wants a rematch against Carlos Condit. On the same card, Condit defeated Hiromitsu Miura to retain his welterweight title.