Since the Muscle Shark has blown it with the drugging (wonder how long the 'roids have been part of his regimen?) this creates an opportunity to have a tourny for the LW belt. Dana hates tournies -- probably because the last UFC tournament was the Lightweight tourny to replace Jens Pulver in 2003 and it ended in a disastrous draw between B.J. Penn and Caol Uno that killed the division for three years.

I say they go for it. Let's make some lemonade out of the steroid lemon.

Here's what I suggest -- hold an sixteen man tourny and the winner gets to face B.J.  for the title.

They should use some of the matches they've already got set up -- Fisher/Thomas, Stevenson/Pellegrino, Aurelio/Guida and Diaz/Assuncao -- to fill out one bracket.

Then fill out the other half of the bracket with: Thiago Tavares, Ken Florian, Frankie Edgar, Tyson Griffin, Gleason Tibau, Terry Etim, Shinya Aoki and Takanori Gomi.

I'm not going to hold my breath, but a kid can dream can't he?

For those who missed his destruction of Jason Black, here's Tavares from 2006: