News and notes from around the MMA world …

- If you missed UFC Fight Night 12, we summarized it on the blog.

- The payouts have also been reported and Kurt Pelligrino (dark match) made just as much as the headliner, Mike Swick, if the report is accurate.

- Sam Caplan interviews WEC vice president Peter Dropick and they talk 2008, PPV, and other things upcoming for the WEC. He also chats with Eddie Alvarez who fights tonight on the ShoXC card.

- Todd Martin gives readers insight about who “The Beast” Bob Sapp is and why you need to know about him if you don’t already.

- Dave Meltzer writes about the perennial semi-main eventer, Tim Sylvia.

- Matt Hughes says he wants Matt Serra if Serra loses to Georges St. Pierre.

- Mia St. John is putting her boxing gloves away for MMA gloves. I talked to her when she was in San Francisco trying to fight at the MMA show that never happened during the wrestling convention at the Cow Palace. She said that at the time, the California State Athletic Commission didn’t think she knew enough jiu-jitsu to be cleared to fight.

- Kevin Iole talks about how people were right not to give up on Patrick Cote.

Talking Points

Although he was promoting a show on the National Geographic, Randy Couture talked mostly about how he’s done with the UFC and how he’s not their heavyweight champion, though he’s still called their champion. At the end of the three minute piece, the interviewer asked him if we would ever see him fight again in the UFC. It really shows that to most media, the UFC is the only game in town. She didn’t ask him about MMA and probably didn’t even know there were other organizations. I just thought that interview told the entire story about how much UFC has become the Xerox of MMA. Couture tried to say that he hoped to fight again, but by then, it seemed like it was an afterthought.

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