Thought Sonnen was going after Bisping. Strange, but the move up was always on the cards as he always looked a big middleweight. That said, the way he handled Anderson Silva for 4 1/2 rounds, I would have thought he would have fancied his chances of taking the title in a few fights.

Each to their own I suppose, but yes, I hope Machida "Karate Kicks" him in the face !

Sonnen vs Machida now off, although it seemed it was never on in the first place.

Sonnen looking likely to fight Brian Stann back at his usual Middleweight instead.

Was just going to post the same thing...looks as though that rumour has just stemed from sonnen slagging everything brazilian off recently..

Hes fighting stann at ufc136.....thats a great match up imo.

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phil davis pulled out of the evans fight due to injury!!

What does rashad evans have to do to get a fight! Heard tito ortiz and machida have been asked to fill in but both declined....cant see who else would take it at short notice to make it a decent main event???

Tito has accepted the fight now.

Dont think he has a chance though to be honest. Im sure he has secured a new 3 fight deal after his win against Bader and wont care less if Rashad beats him up in all honesty as he will be picking up a nice pay day for helping the UFC out of a hole on such short notice.

Hopefully hes got some hunger back after the Bader fight and has a good pop at Evans but it must be hard for any fighter to come in so soon after an emotional win like tito has just had...He will have been winding down and basking in the glory of his win and all of a sudden he has to find the mentality to focus on this fight!! I think hell struggle mentally to get up for this and expect a Rashad win aswell!

Also lil Nogs pulled out injured from his fight with Franklin,leaving him being cut from the card as there is no one to replace him!

Has the hunger returned because he is no longer under the porn stars little thumb ?

UFC 138 has been confirmed for 5th November in LG Arena in Birmingham with a main event of Chris Leben v Mark Munoz.

Again a bit of an underwhelming main event for a UK card. Granted, it is a legit Middleweight number 1 contenders fight, but there's no way they'd roll out that main event on a US card.

Second fight for that card just announced now is Brad Pickett v Renan Barao...legit top 5 bantamweight fight, should be good!

Was hoping for Bisping vs Miller to come in somewhere, but it would have to headline above Leben and no way that would happen with them just announcing Leben headlining.

Id like to see Hardy on the card too please and then I'll buy some tickets.

Quite excited for this none-of-the-less, when tickets going on sale?

It was supposed to be a fight night according to one of the mma sites and theyve bumped it up to ufc 138....the line ups looking like a fight night card and the LG only holds around 8k (i think)

Sounds like theyve called it '138' to make it look like a significant card if you ask me.....as usual England have been thrown the scraps..

Leben v Munoz should be decent but as a co main would have suited me...also thiago Alves on the card against some swede i havent heard of.

Tera Patrick ?

Jenna jameson! Wouldnt mind being under either of there thumbs personally!

The card for 138 is looking decent IMO. Granted, there are no star names as of yet, but the 3 announced fights so far promise fireworks. It's often cards with the "smaller" named guys that end up being the best ones, so I'm going to snap up a ticket for this I reckon, I booked my hotel yesterday when the card was announced.

Although i always bitch about the uk cards i have been to the last few apart from the one at the O2...always a good atmosphere and worth going regardless of the card... i know were your coming from and will probs try and get some tickets for this one aswell....think it might be difficult though will the capacity being so low.

Anybody a Fight Club member and can get tickets for all of us ? !!

Paul Taylor vs Anthony Njokuani rumoured to be on the main card.

And just for info, the LG Arena holds 16,000 apparently, but I dont think Ticketmaster sell tickets for them, Im sure its The Ticket Factory. I could be wrong though.

P.S. Any chance Dana White will overpower Dave O Donnell and grab the Alex Reid vs Jason Barrett debarcle to add to the main card !!

So so far the card is;

Chris Leben v Mark Munoz
Brad Pickett v Renan Barao
Thiago Alves v Papy Abedi
Antony Njoukani v Paul Taylor
John Hathaway v TBC

Some good fights there, but I'd hope there are a few more high profile fights, as as a main card on paper, it is very low on star power.

No chance of Hardy

Concievably Hardy could fight on this card, depending his fight against Chris Lytle goes well in August. Hardy said on Twitter yesterday that if he comes out unscathed against Lytle he'd love to fight on the card.

The event needs an appearance from Bisping or Hardy. Just to pump the atmosphere up. I'll give Bisping his dues, Ive never been anywhere where the atmosphere was as electric as when he made his entrance.