This one may be a no brainer for the champion, as he has Jake Shields next up at a later date in time.

Afterwards, a win over Shields might serve as a segway to a long awaited superfight with UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva, pending a win over Vitor Belfort and the wild card in the title equation which is Yushin Okami.

Koscheck can challenge a top-tier opponent like Dan Hardy did after GSP if he wants, picking fights with the winner of Carlos Condit vs. Chris Lytle at UFC 127.

Personally though, I want either Hardy to faace Kos himself, or I want Nate Diaz to wind up facing him --- regardless of how his 1/1/11 bout with Dong Hyun Kim goes.

Imagine the trash talk and all of the promotion for this fight!

Clearly, Kos can talk mad trash, but guys like Hardy and Diaz can bring it out too.

Of course, if Kos is a bit humbled and wants to take on a relative unknown, he can always take John Howard, Daniel Roberts, or heaven forbid, Carlos Eduardo Rocha -- provided Kos wants to test his luck against a prospect.

It's ultimately not my call to make... it's Joe Silva's

Here's hoping the call Silva makes is the more exciting one.

St-Pierre is really bringing it to Kos here.

It's just leg kick after leg kick, jab after jab, and Koscheck's eye begins to bleed at around the 1:50 mark of the bout .

GSP has just been tooling Koscheck for five rounds straight, and not since the one takedown Kos landed has there been any offense from Koscheck that could convince me that this fight could be a 49-46 fight.

GSP lands a jab and goes after Kos to end the round, and it's not anyone's surprise who won this fight.

De Souza has this title fight at 50-45 for the champion.

Final decision: GSP def. Koscheck by Unanimous Decision (50-45)

The Rush Rhythm comes out as GSP finally manages to land another good takedown on the challenger, who gets back up but winds up back on the ground once again after desperately trying for a leg submission.

Again, even as Koscheck goes in for a few counter shots, GSP is landing the better shots.

As is mentioned by Goldberg, it's noticeable that Josh Koscheck is trying to find a good range at which to land his own strikes but he can't seem to do it.

Even Koscheck's coaches are saying that he should let everything go, but he's not going all out, and although the last few seconds lack action, the crowd cheers at the horn to end round four.

De Souza has this fight 40-36 for GSP. All of a sudden, three things are coming to mind:

1. This fight is going exactly how Silva-Maia probably should've gone

2. Maybe Koscheck can draw a fight, but he's not fighting like the prick-type heel he was built up to be... not to say he ain't still kind of a prick, but he ain't fighting like a prick who wants to beat GSP's ass. He needs a finish in the final round or else it's curtains for Koscheck.

3. Damn dude, I really hope Jake Shields is watching this fight.

The more I keep my eye on this fight, the more parallels I see to UFC 112's Anderson Silva-Demian Maia bout, only without the smart fighting strategy being coupled in with some stall-out tactics.

GSP has established his striking so far, hitting Koscheck at every turn and not managing to get hit by Koscheck.

In this round, the action was fairly the same as the previous two: GSP lands his punches on Koscheck, the two jockey for control against the cage.

If you're a fan of the technical aspect of the MMA game, you have to think that maybe GSP's inability to take Koscheck down might play some sort of role in terms of takedown defense.

Georges's midsection meets the knees of Koscheck and they jockey for control with a little less than a minute and a half left in the round.

Koscheck is still swinging like a mad motherf**ker and he's not really connecting with anything.

The round ends with Koscheck's eye becoming the B-Triple-F of GSP's left jab.

De Souza scores this championship fight 30-27 for the champ. Might seem harsh but so is the punishment that Koscheck is taking when he made it seem like he was going to bring it in the build up to this fight. He needs something here. He needs to give me a reason to not give St-Pierre a round, and the closest he's come was that takedown that ended the first round.

Rogan notes the left hand and the left kick of GSP, two things that Rogan feels Kos will not be able to see if he takes more shots to the eye.

GSP  landed some more painful shots to the leg and the eye of Kos throughout this round. Seriously, how Herb Dean doesn't consider stepping in by now to at least warn Kos about the eye is something beyond me, but I really don't want the fight to end this early.

The prideful Montreal crowd was chanting "F**K YOU KOSCHECK!" at the challenger, who ate a superman left from Rush.

GSP ate some shots from an otherwise-battered-up Koscheck, but the shots weren't enough to win him the round.

De Souza has this fight reading 20-18 St-Pierre right now.

I don't want to say anything early, but it seems like Koscheck is bothered by that eye -- much to the point of him seemingly hoping for GSP to slip up. Then again, it's Josh Koscheck we're talking about, so we know it doesn't matter if he really is banking on one of his swinging right hands connecting with GSP, just as long as Herb Dean doesn't call the fight over due to the eye and how it looks right here.

Remember how Koscheck anticipated GSP only relying on his Wrestling to win the fight?

Well the fight almost proved Koscheck's prediction to be correct, as GSP got a takedown early in the fight. He clearly has no fear for Koscheck or anything he throws his way.

Koscheck, also an orthodox fighter, is trying to look for an opening to land his big right hand but St-Pierre catches him first. Rogan notices the swelling under Kos's right eye, though you can't really tell how bad it is unless you're Rogan or Mike Goldberg.

With a few seconds left in the first round, Kos looks to land a takedown and he gets the takedown, but Kos can't do anything with it at the horn to end round number one.

De Souza has this 10-9 St-Pierre, as Koscheck landed the takedown, but he couldn't mount a significant offense before round one ended. If you watch the full fight, Koscheck's eye looks like it won't see any of the next four rounds, even if Koscheck somehow does.

Plain and simple, Struve is legitimizing himself with every win and proving that losses to Junior Dos Santos and Roy Nelson have done little to nothing in the way of hindering his hopes of one day being a UFC Heavyweight Title contender.

Dana White is probably considering Struve to be in the mix right now, and I can see no reason to disagree.

This win is the first step towards not only Struve proving himself to be a contender, but McCorkle can take this loss as a learning experience to help him come back better and badder in his next fight.

Struve will need a good test to see if he might have what it takes to hang and bang with the likes of Frank Mir, Shane Carwin, former champ Brock Lesnar, and of course the champ as well as Junior Dos Santos.

I would like to see Struve prove his worth against someone who is coming off of a pretty impressive win before I could say a guy like Mir makes sense for Struve.

Skyscraper should probably hope for a Brendan Schaub , a Jon Madsen, or perhaps even a younger talent like Rob Broughton for an international affair -- it depends on who the UFC deems ready for the Dutch sensation.

As for McCorkle, he deserves no real step down, but he's not at the point where even Cheick Kongo makes sense. At this rate, I wouldn't mind seeing him improve and take on another fellow rising star like Travis Browne... or if the UFC really wants it, Mirko Cro Cop.

Both men had a bit of a beef with each other coming into this fight, but they managed to touch gloves in the beginning.

Struve put his reach to good use early, but McCorkle took him down and showed that he had clearly tried to expand his game when he tried locking up a Kimura, which seemed all the more possible  when Struve found himself against the cage.

Struve showed that he can escape even the toughest submission situations  by escaping the Kimura, and then eventually going from having McCorkle in his guard to almost getting an arm bar.

McCorkle worked as much as he could from inside the guard of the Skyscraper, who swept Big Sexy from the bottom, got top control and delivered some mean ground-and-pound to end the fight.

Struve def. McCorkle by R1 TKO (Punches)

Jim Miller believes that he's now up there with the likes of Evan Dunham, Kenny Florian, and of course, The Answer and The Bully.

Charles Oliveira, on the other hand will have to take a step back with his loss to Miller.

All this loss means is that Oliveira has holes in his game that need plugging up.

It's tough to figure who you'd give Oliveira next, although if he trains his ass off, a fight with Jeremy Stephens may not sound too bad.

Then again, neither would a bout against fellow prospect and TUF 12 cast member Cody McKenzie, who faces a huge step up in competition in the form of Yves Edwards.

As for Miller, the most logical plan would be to wait out to see how Kenny Florian's injury holds up or wait for Melvin Guillard's fight with Evan Dunham to play itself out.

Then again, you could turn to Gomi vs. Guida at UFC 125 for Miller's next test.

Either way, a move to Featherweight -- while promising in terms of the fights that Joe Silva and Sean Shelby probably could make happen -- isn't all of a sudden the best move for the AMA Fight Club warrior.

Oliveira comes out from right out of the gate with a head kick and even as Miller is going for a few shots, Oliveira is landing a few quick head kicks.

In between the head kicks, Miller spins out of a single leg attempt from Oliveira and eventually gets a takedown on Oliveira who looks like he's trying to get a Guillotine on Miller, even though he's doing little to prevent Miller from passing his guard.

The guard really seems non-existent once Miller takes this fight to the ground but Miller  grabs the wrist and frees himself from a potential Guillotine attempt, only to wind up in Oliveira's guard.

Oliveira tried for a Triangle choke as Miller worked from the inside to get himself standing back up but couldn't get it, so he then looked for a kneebar.

Miller not only escapes the kneebar, but he notices that Oliveira has left his leg open in trying to secure the kneebar.

Miller goes for his own kneebar and gets hit a few times by Oliveira, who could've used his right leg to push off the right arm of Miller but instead opted to tap out rather than let his MMA career get cut a tiny bit shorter.

Smart move, Charles. Too bad for you, Miller still got the tapout win though.

Miller def. Oliveira by R1 Submission (Kneebar)

Danzig just beat an unquestionably top-card Lightweight in Stevenson, which means that career-wise, Danzig's safe and Joe's probably somewhere closer to the chopping block.

Another loss for Stevenson sends him straight to the chopping block, unless said loss is controversial much like Tyson Griffin's UFC 123 bout.

Now that we mention it, since both Griffin and Stevenson need a win, maybe they can both face off.

Originally I would have thought a win over Danzig could lead up to that fight with Takanori Gomi, but with the loss, Griffin seems the best choice unless any of the WEC-turned-UFC lightweights or the loser of Gomi's bout with Clay Guida might be good.

As for Danzig, the winner of the Gomi-Guida bout might be good, as would be the winner of Sam Stout vs. Paul Kelly at UFC 126.

Then again, there's always those former WEC Lightweights.

To give Mac Danzig the KO Of The Night Bonus in a match that I would have probably seen the Submission Of The Night happening, that says something.

I have to admit I didn't give Danzig a shot to win here, as I thought Stevenson was going to Guillotine Choke him in the third round.

Really speaking, the fight started out rather cautious on both ends, with both guys showing some good footwork but the only significant shots in the early seconds of the fight were that push kick Danzig threw and the overhand right Daddy threw.

Everything before that last shot of the fight was either a rather light punch or a quick kick to the shin.

Then Joe threw the overhand right again, but he may have thrown it a few too many times.

As Joe came forward to throw another successful right, Danzig backed up and threw the "Spider Hook".

Remember the left jab Anderson Silva threw to beat Forrest Griffin at UFC 101?

It was like that, except Danzig was a bit off balance when he backed up and threw the shot, plus it was a left hook followed by a few hammer fists on the ground, not a jab.

Fact is that two things happened:

Number one, Mac Danzig shut a hell of a lot of people up at UFC 124, and number two...

Daddy had himself a bit of a rough night.

Danzig def. Stevenson by R1 KO (Left Hook)

How do you say anything bad about the fight?

I'm sure even your most casual fan could tell that Alves was getting the better if Howard for all three rounds, as he not only was able to land those two takedowns -- which I may easily recall seeing in a few of Matt Hughes' fights but never in any of Alves' past few fights -- but he also got the more effective shots off in the fight, especially the two knees in the clinch in the first round and the knockdown in the third round.

All in all, this fight was a war, and I would dare to say a little along one particular line of Griffin-Bonnar 1 in that the action showed something of a clear cut winner, but the fight was so exciting all throughout that you could have actually thought in your right mind that the fight might go to a split decision.

There was a definite winner, and Thiago Alves was that man.

So who makes sense for him now?

BJ Penn, if he can beat Jon Fitch at UFC 127, comes to mind, as well as Mike Pierce if Alves still wants him or even Dan Hardy if the Pitbull wants to crack open a striker.

As for Howard, he'll need a trip to the drawing board just to hone up his striking before we can give him too many shots at the top of the ladder, but I say let him get his Muay Thai up to another level and then consider him next for the winner or loser of Sanchez-Kampmann at the next Versus card or Paulo Thiago.

This round was the icing on the proverbial cake.

After throwing a few more leg kicks, Howard tried for a takedown but again, Thiago stuffed it.

Rogan noted throughout this round that if Howard lost the fight, he would see that even his own striking game has holes, and that he'd be a better fighter for it.

It's tough to say Thiago wasn't winning this round, and as far as him being back goes...

Alves won the fight 30-27 in a bout that was lopsided, so is the man back, even after spending much of the third round counter-punching and knocking Howard down with about 2:40 left in the third?

I should say so.

Round 2 saw a little bit less to talk about -- again, the round had to go 10-9 Alves from my point of view, and yet I had predicted Howard winning.

What really shocked me as far as takedowns go was the one he landed in this round, which was as huge as any I've seen in the sport recently.

Alves slammed him down and really just exhausted him in the second round, but to Howard's credit, he never showed any indication of him wanting to back down or bow out.

He may not have landed the better shots or gotten the better of Alves on the ground, but he sure kept Alves from achieving a TKO in the Salaverry Position after the takedown in the first, and he tried his heart out in keeping from being finished in the second.

Was this round all Alves?

Yeah, but Howard never backed down, even though he got taken down in a big way.