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For the first time since his loss to Forrest Griffin more than two years ago, Shogun Rua can legitimately be called one of the top 10 fighters in MMA -- and it took a loss to get him there.

Rua's unanimous decision loss to Lyoto Machida in the main event at UFC 104 was a fight that most people thought he deserved to win, and a fight that makes one thing very clear: Shogun is back.

But where does Shogun fit in our list of the Top 10 pound-for-pound fighters in MMA? Find out below.

Lyoto Machida is still the light heavyweight champion of the UFC, but not many people agree with the three judges who allowed him to keep his belt after 25 minutes in the Octagon with Shogun Rua on Saturday night.

So does Machida keep his status as the top light heavyweight in MMA in my latest Top 10? He does, but Shogun also moves up in the rankings after a very close fight with the champ. The full rankings are below.

If the Lyoto Machida-Shogun Rua fight at UFC 104 had gone the way everyone expected -- Machida handily defeating Shogun to retain his title -- the UFC would have faced a quandary with its light heavyweight division. Machida would be perceived as so dominant that there wouldn't be any particularly interesting fights for him, and the stacked UFC light heavyweight division might have started to feel a little stale.

That's why Machida's controversial unanimous decision victory on Saturday night was a great thing for the UFC: It sets up a Rua-Machida rematch that will be a bigger fight than the first one, and it buys time for the UFC to re-establish some of its other light heavyweights as contenders to take on the Rua-Machida 2 winner.

In short order, Lyoto Machida has become MMA's golden child, captivating fans around the world with his inimitable style and perfect record. But it wasn't too long ago that Mauricio "Shogun" Rua was MMA's flavor of the month.

So will Machida continue his unbeaten run at UFC 104, or will Shogun rediscover the glory that made him one of the sport's rising stars just a few years ago?

Let's take a look at how Machida-Rua will play out.

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The current season of The Ultimate Fighter was intended to serve largely as a means of hyping a big fight between the two coaches, Rashad Evans and Rampage Jackson. As it turned out, no such fight is set to happen any time soon, as Jackson abruptly left the UFC to pursue an acting career.

Given what has transpired since The Ultimate Fighter was filmed, it's especially interesting to see the way Rashad and Rampage talk trash toward each other in the seventh episode of Season 10, which will air on Spike TV on Wednesday: Rashad told Rampage he'd make him quit fighting.

"I'm gonna make you quit," Evans said to Jackson. "You're gonna quit in the fight. Because that's what you do. You quit."

Video below.

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Every MMA fan knows the shirts the fighters wear are part of who they are and what they represent, and companies like Silver Star not only dress some of the world's best fighters, but they also sponsor them, letting the athletes focus on what's important. Fighting.

In this FanHouse exclusive, we stop by a Silver Star fashion show in Hollywood, Calif. to speak with founder Luke Burrett and fighters Anderson Silva, Rashad Evans, Shane Del Rosario and Kimo Leopoldo. Check out the video after the jump.

Former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski has begun training with renowned coach Greg Jackson at his academy in New Mexico as Arlovski looks to end a streak of back-to-back high-profile losses.

The Kimbo Slice vs. Roy Nelson fight that will air Wednesday night on Spike TV was set up by former UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans, Nelson's coach this season on The Ultimate Fighter. And Evans said in an interview with FanHouse that he set up that fight for one reason: He wanted to see Kimbo get knocked out, and he thought Nelson was the man to do it.

Rashad Evans was first introduced to UFC fans four years ago, when he was one of the 16 aspiring mixed martial artists competing on the second season of the UFC's reality show The Ultimate Fighter. That went well for him -- he won the season and the UFC contract that went with it -- but Evans says his experience as a coach on the current season was more rewarding.

"I got more out of coaching because I had the previous experience fighting," Evans said in an interview with FanHouse. "I knew what I wished I had -- I knew what it was to be the guy who's just trying to make it and hoping to get instruction from a professional fighter, and I tried to give these guys the coaching I wanted when I was in their shoes."

In the follow-up to his "retirement" blog post, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson addressed Thursday his feelings of disrespect from UFC president Dana White and rival Rashad Evans.

"I feel like this whole situation could have been avoided if UFC would have respected me more and rescheduled the fight about a month or more in my hometown," Jackson wrote in a post titled "Who's the baby?" undoubtedly in response to White saying he was "acting like a baby."