SAN JOSE, Calif. - MMAjunkie.com is on scene and reporting live from today's official "Strikeforce: Heavyweight Grand Prix Finale" fighter weigh-ins.

Today's festivities take place at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., which also hosts Saturday's Showtime- and Showtime Extreme-televised event.

Join us for live weigh-in results as all fighters hit the scale beginning at approximately 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT).

(You have no idea how right you are.)  What in the name of Science is this bullshit? Fresh off a victory over Marcus LeVesseur at UFC on FUEL 3, it has been announced that the inventor of the deadliest guillotine choke known to man, TUF 12 veteran Cody McKenzie, will be making his featherweight debut at UFC 148, which transpires from the MGM Grand Garden Casino in Las Vegas on July 7th. Welcoming him to 145 lbs will be...Chad Mendes? Didn't he just fight JOSE F'ING ALDO FOR THE F'ING TITLE?! Did McKenzie piss off Dana White, or is this Karma's way of punishing him for making Josh Koscheck look like even more of a clown on the set of TUF 10? If it's the latter, then Karma is a dick. A high school Letterman jacket wearing, clove cigarette smoking, man ass motorboating dick. As we all know, McKenzie has won 11 of his 13 professional victories by way of his signature vice-grip like submission, aptly dubbed "The McKenzietine," which has earned him a spot amongst the greatest one-trick ponies of all time. Mendes, on the other hand, has never been submitted, and is coming off the first blemish of his career, which came via brutal first round knockout to Aldo. Why it was decided that these two should face off is nothing short of baffling.

You can watch a live web stream of tonight's Bellator 69 event live on MMAjunkie.com beginning at 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT).

The event takes place at L'Auberge du Lac Casino Resort in Lake Charles, La. The event includes the season-six middleweight-tournament finale and a welterweight-tourney semifinal.

Prelim bouts include the likes of Mark Holata vs. Abe Wagner, Booker Arthur vs. Shanon Slack, and Andrey Koreshkov vs. Derrick Krantz.

Welcome to our discussion thread for tonight's Bellator 69 event.

The event kicks off at 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT) from L'Auberge du Lac Casino Resort in Lake Charles, La.

Stay tuned for a full recap of the event, which includes an MTV2 main card with a season-six middleweight-tournament finale of Maiquel Falcao vs. Andreas Spang, as well as a welterweight-tourney semifinal of Karl Amoussou vs. David Rickels.

The 11th episode of "The Ultimate Fighter: Live" airs tonight on FX at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

This serves as tonight's discussion thread for the double-fight episode, in which the tournament's quarterfinal round continues.

Follow along with tonight's episode and live elimination fight on FX, and discuss it in the comments section of this thread. We'll then have an episode recap posted at the show's conclusion.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Tomorrow, the Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix will come to an end.

But then what?

Officially, the winner gets one more fight under the Strikeforce banner before the division is folded. But in reality, there isn't much of a division to fold. Finding the guy who wants to fight the winner of the tourney isn't going to be an easy sell, finalist Daniel Cormier told MMAjunkie.com.

(A class act since the day he was born, Dolloway always takes time out of his day to pose for photos with his adoring fans.)  When I first came across this tidbit of hilarity that Jason Miller told UFC.com during a recent interview, I considering starting this article with some hackneyed statement like "You gotta love Jason Miller," or "Leave it to Mayhem to-insert stupid sentence here." But then I paused for a moment, and decided to rewatch his match with Michael Bisping at the TUF 14 Finale. When it was airing live, I happened to be in staying in Boston at a friend's house, and missed the fight due to an intensely heated game of beer pong that followed an Animals as Leaders concert we had just attended. After the game had finished, I quickly shuffled into the living room, wide eyed and silently praying to be greeted by the image of Bisping's unconscious, purple face. But I was too late. The broadcast had ended. I turned to another buddy of mine, and like a coma patient (or a victim of an H-bomb) being awoken for the first time, I found myself asking, "What happened?" He looked up at me, bitter disappointment in his eyes, and said, "I'm not really sure, but it was really sad. Like watching a rabbit die in slow motion." The point is, after talking up such a storm and subsequently getting his ass taken to the cleaners by "The Count," Miller has more than likely earned the ire of at least a few dozen of you. Kind of like that poor Danga bastard. And once again, it's do or die time for Mayhem, and here he is, falling back on his old habits. I'm not trying to sound negative, because I think the guy is a pretty entertaining fellow. I just wonder if he's going to regret saying things like this again:

I just look at who he’s fought in the past, and I look at — you know — I look at who he’s fought in the past, and how I match up with them, and I know that… this should be an easy night for me. On top of that, I trained my ass off. I’m not gonna make this a personal thing with the guy, but at the same time, I’m not gonna pretend to respect him. There’s a stark contrast between me and him. You can see that I’m mentally tough, and I’m a bit of a masochist, so I’ll take the abuse, and go through it. When the going gets tough, this guy quits, and I’m gonna make him quit. I’m going to knock his fart-face off, and I’m going to send him packing. There’s no way around it.

Ah fuck it, I'm back on the bandwagon.

Nine fighters from this week's UFC on FUEL TV 3 card have received medical suspensions, and two have been suspended indefinitely.

Main-card fighter Jeremy Stephens and preliminary-card competitor Johnny Eduardo both have been suspended indefinitely due to eye injuries and must received medical clearance before returning to competition.

MMAjunkie.com today received the list from Virginia's Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation.

(Let's be honest, you'd pay to watch these three knuckleheads do *anything*.) As Danga pointed out yesterday, injuries and surprise drug tests have led to all five of UFC 146's main card bouts being altered since they were first announced, which puts "Dos Santos vs. Mir" right up there with MMA's most cursed events of all time. But let's be fair — the UFC originally promised us ten aggressive heavyweights bashing the hell out of each other, and they're still giving us just that. So is UFC 146 a rag-tag bunch of scab-fights, or a compelling lineup in itself? Let's break it down... Original main event: Junior dos Santos vs. Alistair Overeem Current main event: Junior dos Santos vs. Frank Mir Advantage: Even. Luckily, our schizophrenic contributor Josh Hutchinson has already presented both sides of this issue, and I'm leaning towards the idea that Mir as a main-event replacement isn't a total disaster. At first, we had the two best heavyweight strikers in MMA slugging it out for supremacy. Now, we have...well, who knows? Mir's brilliant ground game opens up a whole new set of outcomes for this one. And isn't MMA at its best when it's chaotic and unpredictable? (I know, some of you just watch for the big muscles, but I'm a true fan, okay bro?) Original co-main event: Cain Velasquez vs. Frank Mir Current co-main event: Cain Velasquez vs. Antonio Silva Advantage: Original. And I only say that because Velasquez vs. Mir felt like less of a squash match. Bigfoot really could have used a softer landing in the Octagon; making his UFC debut in a pay-per-view co-main event against a juggernaut ex-champ like Velasquez smells like serious trouble for the Brazilian, who already failed a chin-test against Daniel Cormier in September.

Former title challenger Chad Mendes will serve as the welcome wagon for the debut of former lightweight Cody McKenzie in the featherweight division.

UFC officials today announced that verbal agreements are in place for the 145-pound fight.

It'll be part of July's already-stacked UFC 148 lineup on Independence Day weekend.

ShoFIGHT, a Missouri-based promotion with 19 amateur fight cards under its belt, has scheduled its first professional event for June 16.

Determined to make waves from day one, the debut card features Shamar Bailey vs. Karo Parisyan in the main event, with Kendall Grove facing Terry Martin in the co-feature.

The 15-fight lineup also features a host of additional notables on the card, including Marcus Aurelio, Lyle Beerbohm, Charles "Krazy Horse" Bennett and Shonie Carter, among others.

It's the stark raving mad psychos who get all the press. The quiet ones always fly under the radar - until they snap.

Former cop and current Bellator welterweight Karl Amoussou isn't certifiable, of course, but he uses mind games with his opponents.

His next one, welterweight-tournament semifinalist David Rickels, better be ready to play.

When injured Jesus Rivera was forced out of a main-event title fight, Clay Hantz looked to seize an opportunity.

With just a week's notice, Hantz stepped in to fight Jorge "Macaco " Patino earlier this month at Legacy Fighting Championship 11.

In the latest installment of HDNet Fights Video Vault - our fight-of-the-week feature - we look back at the title fight, which ended in violent fashion.

Ron Sparks doesn't see his first professional MMA loss as a positive, but he admits the setback was certainly a perspective-changer.

"I wouldn't say it's the best thing to happen to me because I hate to lose to be honest," Sparks told MMAjunkie.com Radio earlier this week, of his first-round knockout defeat to Eric Prindle this past October.

"But I got caught. Just like any fighter when you lose, it sucks. But the positive thing is, it humbled me. It brought me back to planet Earth."

(Tard face: For when punch face just doesn't describe it.)  It's looking like Renan Barao might be getting a phone call from the UFC after all. According to Dave Meltzer, bantamweight powerhouse Michael "Mayday" McDonald will not be the man to step up against Urijah Faber in Dominick Cruz's absence, as he has suffered a hand injury that will keep him out of action for the unexpected future. Meltzer reported in his infamous publication, The Wrestling Observer, that the news came from none other than UFC President Dana White, although McDonald has yet to confirm it himself. The news comes after the current bantamweight champion was forced to pull out of his heated trilogy match with Faber, scheduled for UFC 148, due to a torn ACL. Dana White announced during last week's episode of The Ultimate Fighter 15 that Faber's new opponent would be announced on tonight's episode, and the general consensus was that it would be the Californian-born slugger, who is coming off a huge win over former WEC bantamweight champion Miguel Torres, would be the mystery opponent in question. The fact that the other most probable contender, Renan Barao, was already scheduled to face Ivan Menjivar at the same event only confirmed this notion. If Barao is not the man to claim the empty spot, who else do you think could, Potato Nation? One thing's for sure, we expect that tonight's episode of TUF might finally bounce back from the ratings disaster it has been thus far. We will have more on this story as it continues to develop. -J. Jones

MMAjunkie.com Radio today welcomes to the show Bellator chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney, who helps preview tonight's Bellator 69 event.

We also catch up with the always-entertaining Don Frye and Joey "CoCo" Diaz.

MMAjunkie.com Radio airs from noon to 2 p.m. ET (9-11 a.m. PT) live from Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Listen to and watch a video stream of the two-hour show at www.mmajunkie.com/radio.

(Come on...hasn't Mark Hunt suffered enough?) Tomorrow night in San Jose, Josh Barnett will face the greatest challenge of his post-PRIDE career when he meets Daniel Cormier in the finals of Strikeforce's World Heavyweight Grand Prix. (FYI, we'll be liveblogging the Showtime main card starting at 10 p.m. ET, so don't make any big plans.) Barnett's comfort-level in the cage and catch-wrestling expertise have led him on a four-year winning streak, and one more victory could earn him an improbable return to the UFC. In honor of this pivotal moment for the Warmaster, we decided to round up his five greatest submissions. Enjoy, and shoot us your predictions for Barnett vs. Cormier in the comments section... (Josh Barnett vs. Semmy Schilt; UFC 32, 6/29/01) Barnett's first submission in the Octagon came against gigantic kickboxer Semmy Schilt, who had made his UFC debut the previous month by smashing Pete Williams. Wisely, Barnett avoids the standup game entirely, immediately taking the Dutchman to the mat. Schilt is absolutely helpless underneath the Babyface Assassin, and eventually gives up mount. Barnett waits for the right moment then attacks Schilt's arm, giving up position in the process. It doesn't matter — Barnett sinks the armbar at the 4:21 mark of the first round and establishes himself as a fearsome heavyweight grappler.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Josh Barnett may be the best heavyweight in the world, but by virtue of fighting outside the UFC, he'll remain unknown to a large swath of fans who think the promotion and sport of MMA are synonymous.

As well-known as he is in hardcore circles both stateside and abroad, you might say Barnett is the equivalent of the popular indie band that hasn't sold out yet.

"I'm the one that all the hipsters love," he told MMAjunkie.com. "I'm like, 'Have you ever heard of Josh Barnett? Of course you haven't. You're not cool enough.'"

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Even Daniel Cormier learned a few new things about Josh Barnettwhen Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker listed the veteran's achievements at the press conference for "Strikeforce: Heavyweight Grand Prix Finale."

The list stretched back to 2002 and included Barnett's win over Randy Couture for the UFC heavyweight title.

"I really had no idea," Cormier told MMAjunkie.com during the gathering. "I didn't know he beat that many guys."

Fifteen months after it blasted out of the gate with an impressive array of talent, the Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix is nearly at an end.

And while a number of circumstances outside the cage have robbed the competition of much luster, the finals promise an exciting clash between two of the best big men outside the UFC.

The winner, of course, takes one step closer to that promotion. Before that, the Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix title serves as the final belt handed out before the Zuffa sister promotion shutters its big-man division completely.