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Well, that didn’t take long. With the recent news that UFC light heavyweight champ “Shogun” Rua will likely be out until March of 2011, already the calls are coming for the UFC to create another interim title belt for the healthy 205-pounders to fight over in the meantime.
As if fans haven’t had enough of “fake” titles lately. As if any fight becomes instantly more important as soon as there’s some chunk of hardware at stake.
The latest MMA figure to ask for an interim title fight is manager Ed Soares, who suggested this week that while Rua heals up from knee surgery, Lyoto Machida should fight Rashad Evans for the interim belt, with the winner to take on Rua once he’s ready to return to action.