More MMA News and Notes for 5/25

Joe Lauzon's TUF 5 Episode 8 recap is here

More behind the cut.



Ant Evans writes about the fire within the Ice Man's Belly.

Chuck Liddell is MMA's main man writes Kevin Iole.

The NY Times has an article from the edge of madness to fighting's mainstream chronicling the rough times in MMA's past.

Jackson takes aim at Liddell again.

Opportunity knocks for Houston Alexander

Dana White teases a big surprise for saturday He did not however, promise that there was nothing Vince McMahon could do about it.

I'll end this for now. I'll be back later with more, including coverage of the weigh-ins which you can watch on ESPNews, Yahoo Sports, NBCSports.com, UFC.com and a billion other places. A reminder that you can see and submit your picks for UFC 71 here currently, mine are the only predictions featured but the rest of CARE and the Jabronis should be around as well eventually. Any reader is welcome to join in the fun, just create an account and there you go.