The Dec. 12 UFC 107 main event between Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Rashad Evans has been scrapped from the card, according to UK Web site MMABay.com, which has close ties to Jackson's Wolfslair team.
The site reported that Jackson will be unable to participate because of a film commitment he recently made to "The A-Team." Several news sites reported conflicting information on the casting, but UFC President Dana White last week confirmed to FanHouse that Rampage had indeed gotten the role.
The UFC does not officially announce matches until contracts and bout agreements are signed, but Evans vs. Jackson was widely expected and is the centerpiece feud of the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter, which begins airing on Sept. 16 and runs through Dec. 2.
In addition, the event was scheduled to take place in Jackson's hometown of Memphis, Tenn.The feud between the two began shortly after UFC 96, when Evans was invited into the cage following Jackson's unanimous decision win over Evans' teammate, Keith Jardine.
During a May conference call to announce their participation on TUF, Jackson told reporters he'd chosen to fight Evans ahead of a possible title bout with Lyoto Machida.
"They told me I could fight whoever and I had my mind set I would fight Evans," he said then.
Evans and his manager did not return messages seeking comment and White was on an international business trip and unreachable.
UFC lightweight champion BJ Penn announced yesterday on his website that his next title defense against Diego Sanchez would come at UFC 107, and it appears that bout is likely to be moved into the main-event position.
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What a sad sad day
Oh man, I was looking forward to some black on black crime as Rampage says. But now I am looking forward to seeing him as B.A. Baracus should be good.I pity the fool who doesnt watch it.
Kimbo would have made a much much better B.A. Baracus.
lol lol i think he is scared of the champ lyoto!!!!
I always laugh when people say an MMA fighter is scared of another fighter. Fedor is scared of Brock, Rampage is scared of Machida etc. It's idiotic. A more likely scenario is that he wanted to work on his game some more before he gets in there with Machida or he really wanted the fight with Evans. But, he isn't scared at all man. It's not in these guys DNA to be scared or afraid to fight another fighter.
this is false, rampage isnt in the movie, they need to get thier facts straight b4 they publish this
MMABAY are notorious liars. hope they are wrong again.
rashad really showed what a jerk he is getting in Rampage's face right after his (page's) victory. i hope page knocks him out.
lol i like how u call him page lol!!!