Rampage Jackson verbally agrees to fight Lyoto Machida in November
by on July 21, 2010

Quinton Jackson and Lyoto Machida will headline the November 20 pay-per-view card. Although a location for the card has yet to be determined, sources close to the UFC confirmed to mmajunkie.com that the match will happen.

Jackson also made the announcement known through his twitter account saying, "Almost ready to sign the bout agreement. I would tell y'all who I'm gonna get down with, but I can't spell his name. Hahaha."

Jackson (30-8, 5-2 UFC) is coming off of a loss to Rashad Evans at UFC 114, after posting consecutive wins over Wanderlei Silva and Keith Jardine. "Rampage" will be fighting for the second time since March, when he signed a new 6-fight contract extension to stay with the promotion.

Machida (16-1, 8-1 UFC) is reeling from his first defeat in which he lost the light heavyweight championship to Mauricio "Shogun" Rua at UFC 113. This fight was a rematch from the hotly contested decision Machida earned back at UFC 104. Prior to the loss, "The Dragon" had strung together 8-straight victories over accomplished fighters such as Tito Ortiz, Thiago Silva and Rashad Evans.

The winner of this bout could become the number-one contender for the light heavyweight championship, but the UFC has not confirmed that yet.

 |  (26) Comments Wandering_Minstrel: I don't think this is a very good fight for Rampage. Lyoto has too much speed and technical precision. I see Machida taking this one to a Unanimous Decision. Legend of Lee Murray: I agree....Rampage will just get annoyed with Machida sticking and moving around the cage. Eeeeked out decision! DragonWarrior: I think Machida will play it safe and make it boring again. Machida UD. After the fight Rampage will call out Forrest Griffin. Ceelarence: i think Rampage can take Machida down. if he does. its good night Machida. If not, then machida UD D_V: Machida has better balance. He's a much better wrestler than people realize. Rampage won't take him down. He won't be able to. Rampage has a chance if he cuts through getting beat up and utilizes his chin to close distance and throw a bomb. That's his only chance imo and I don't see him winning this one. He's going to not only lose but get stopped relatively easily in the early second round. The first round he'll lose easily but just get essentially out pointed (like 50-0) and the second round he's going to get attacked and beat up pretty early. taken down and tko(ed). thug4less: If Rampage fights smart and can cut Machida off, he could potentially KO him but if he banks on taking Machida down... well, I don't like his chances. We've seen it, time and time again, that Machida isn't a "power" wrestler. All that stuff about Rampage being so much stronger than Machida isn't going to count for anything if Rampage's TD attempts are sloppy and easily telegraphed. Machida can shook him off and backpedal away to continue to chip away at his chin. I doubt if he'll be able to KO Rampage. He could get him in a bad position and MAYBE sub him. That depends on how muich Rampge has been keeping up his sub game. I think the main factor in this fight is going to be in Machida's mindset. If he comes in thinking he's going to try to get a T/KO over Rampage, that's a recipe for disaster. That was his undoing in the Shogun fight and, I think, that'll always be his undoing. Trying to give fans the T/KO against guys that have titanium chins like Shogun and Rampage. IwishIwasMMA: This is such a stupid fight for Page to fucking take. He is nothing short of a fucking dumbass for taking this fight. If he pulls it off, congrats.. but he just fought a guy that he SHOULD have beaten on talent alone and a bit of work, now he is fighting a guy who IS better than him and talent wont do. I do not know what his game plan is in this fight, but he better come up with a great one or this is going to be embarrassing for his career. shawnb: Machida is gonna make Page look stupid mmakillsallothersports: Easy win for machida evans proved that rampage has trouble with speed and angles and machida is a master of angles and capitalizing on it. One thing i can see is him landing flush on one of his attacks thinking he has him hurt trying to finish and getting caught by atrademark rampage hook. If he tries to trade with rampage hes done Rob: CAN'T WAIT. Many are saying Machida has this one won, but to be honest, it could go either way. Depends if Rampage will turn up the heat or not. He certainly didn't against Rashad. Tonika Fatale: If rashad beat him...Lyoto going to win...:) IwishIwasMMA: Just so everyone knows.. Rampage didnt show up to fight Rashad. If the real Page ever did show up to fight Rashad, Rashad is not getting out of the first round unless he fucking stalls. Down with pusspage, up with RAMPAGE!
WHO WINS THE MAIN EVENT AT UFC 162 BETWEEN ANDERSON SILVA AND CHRIS WEIDMAN?
Silva via Decision
Silva via TKO/KO
Silva via Submission
Weidman via Decision
Weidman via TKO/KO
Weidman via Submission
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