Jean-Claude Van Damme -- the most badass fighting sensation of the 90s -- just got challenged to an MMA fight by a guy who used to fight puppets in spandex ... all over an incident from 15 years ago.

UFC landscape was shaken up with news that UFC Middleweight #1 contender, Vitor Belfort, would have to pull out of his fight for the Middleweight title against the Middleweight king, Anderson Silva.  Vitor had to withdraw from the highly anticipated bout due to a shoulder injury he sustained during training.  Although it was just announced yesterday afternoon that Vitor would be pulling out of the fight, Vitor sustained the injury several weeks ago and continued to train using only one arm, hoping that the injury would heal and he would be able to fight.

MMA Live recaps UFC 109. Randy Couture emerges from the battle of Hall of Famers and Chael Sonnen becomes the No. 1 middleweight contender. Also, the UFC 110 preview gets underway, as the MMA leader readies for its first show in Australia

UFC 112 “Invincible” was dealt a brutal blow, Vitor Belfort has been forced out of his UFC 112 fight against Anderson Silva with some sort of shoulder injury.

Following Mark Colemans loss to fellow UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture at UFC 109, the UFC has since released the MMA veteran. Coleman came into his UFC 109 fight knowing that this was the most important fight of his career as well as knowing it may be his last. Coleman fought a tough fight until Couture was able to secure the win in the second round via rear naked choke.

Should Michael Bisping get past Wanderlei Silva at UFC 110, Fighters Only has been told, he will most likely face Yoshihiro Akiyama in his next fight.

Akiyama is also likely to be on the menu for Wanderlei should he get past Bisping. ... According to a Las Vegas source, the UFC would like to make Wand-Akiyama on a card to be staged in Japan.

... No news yet on who is being considered for the loser of Wanderlei-Bisping, although Nate Marquardt could be a possibility.

MMA Junkie reports that welterweight contender Martin Kampmann is withdrawing from his scheduled UFC 111 fight with Ben Saunders (8-1-2, 4-1 UFC) due to an injury suffered in training.  Replacing Kampmann will be rising welterweight prospect Jake Ellenberger (22-5, 1-1 UFC:

Anderson Silva’s manager Ed Soares disagrees with the UFC decision to give Chael Sonnen the next shot at the middleweight title and calls for Sonnen to first get past fellow Brazilian Demian Maia.