After we watched Jon Jones’ big toe roll in a direction that toes aren’t supposed to roll during his first round victory against Chael Sonnen at UFC 159, we figured that it would be a while before he fought again, because it had been reported that he had suffered a serious fracture. Then Jones finished his post-fight pizza and he was all, “It’s not broken, just dislocated” and he claimed that he’d be fighting again in six-to-eight weeks.

Well, if that is true and he is indeed fully recovered within the next month or so, then he may have a special seat at ringside when Anderson Silva faces Chris Weidman, the No. 1 contender to his UFC Middleweight belt, at UFC 162 on July 6. That’s because Dana White has gone from teasing a Georges St-Pierre/Silva superfight to a Jones/Silva superfight.

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I mean that in a positive way, believe it or not.

Cage Potato sent over this clip of Bellator ring girl Jade Bryce doing her best impressions of memorable MMA fighters, faces and fans, and now it’s my duty to pass it along to you. She covers the Rashad Evans’s knockout face, the “Just Bleed” Guy, the drunk dancing mom and the “rising douchebag,” does her best to pull off the robot split and brings in a friend to emulate Don Frye and James Thompson’s violent eskimo kissing. It’s fun, and it’s Friday, so this is the perfect thing for you to spend a minute or two watching.

Video is after the jump.

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Via YouTube:

Heavyweight champ Cain Velasquez mic’d up Octagon-side for UFC 156 as his next opponent is determined. See Velasquez’s live reaction as he watches Bigfoot Silva pull off an epic knockout against Alistair Overeem. Velasquez faces Bigfoot in the rematch at UFC 160 this Saturday, May 25th.

What the description doesn’t point out is that Cain Velasquez’s live reaction is almost no reaction, and his cold, obvious explanations of what you’re watching reminded me way too much of Arnold Schwarzenegger doing commentary on Total Recall. Just replace “this is me on the screen here” with “Overeem threw 2 to 3 punches.”

I guess I can’t blame him too much. This is his job, after all. But hey, if he wasn’t enthusiastic about Bigfoot Silva’s win here, I’d like to see him run commentary on this clip of Bigfoot trying to fit into a normal sized man’s helmet and do laps around a racetrack in Sao Paulo.

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After his first round KO over former Strikeforce middleweight champ Luke Rockhold at UFC on FX 8, Vitor Belfort was questioned by MMA journalist John Morgan about his use of the controversial testosterone-replacement therapy and he responded by asking, “Can somebody beat him up for me, please?” You know, because he’s a 36-year old professional athlete and adult who gets better with age, so obviously he acts like it, too.

But somewhere between Sunday night and yesterday, someone took a moment to explain to Belfort how he came across like a total d*ckhead – unless you think that Morgan was the a-hole for asking about TRT right after Belfort’s win – and the No. 2-ranked contender for the UFC Middleweight belt issued a very sincere-yet-sloppy apology on Twitter.

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If you call something “the worst MMA fight ever,” you’ve got to mean it.

There’s so much to choose from. You’ve got Tank Abbott fighting people in the middle of a neighborhood barbecue, people who lost fights via vomit, a guy who knocked himself out with a kick and anything Bob Sapp has ever done. But yes, what you’re about to watch is truly the worst MMA fight ever.

He taps out to a sprawl, you guys. It’s so sad that the referee is like, “really, seriously?” and the guy just shrugs and gives up. He tries a kick, bless his heart, and he goes for the most depressing takedowns you’ve ever seen before lying facedown and holding his head. You know, in case somebody tries to punch him. In the MMA fight.

Enjoy this as much I did. Please.

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In case you were unable to join us for Saturday’s free fights at UFC on FX 8, you missed business as usual in the UFC’s Middleweight division. Vitor Belfort defeated former Strikeforce Middleweight Champion Luke Rockhold via a spin-kick knockout in the first round, meaning that all signs kind of point to a Silva-Belfort II event in the near future – that is, if Chris Weidman doesn’t pull off an upset when he faces Anderson Silva for the UFC Middleweight Championship at UFC 162.

As for the rest of the event, you can read the results after the jump, as well as some other big UFC news and headlines of the day, including whether or not that Silva-Belfort rematch will actually happen.

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