Strikeforce Challengers went down in Kansas City last night, and as you can see from this extremely low quality video, it was not a good night for Kim Couture.  Despite some early success against Kerry Vera, "Sugar Free" got rocked against the cage midway through the first and that was all the opening Vera needed to finish the fight.  The loss drops Couture to 1-2 as a pro, with her only win coming against hapless bystander Lina Kvokov after getting her jaw wrecked by Kim Rose.  Kind of makes you think that maybe taking an interest in your husband's hobbies is nice, but isn't enough to base a pro fighting career on. 

In other action, Kevin Casey, the fighter who starred alongside Spencer Pratt in the worst rap video of all time, defeated Chad Vance via submission in the first round.  In the main event, Tyron Woodley remained undefeated with a first-round submission of Rudy Bears.  Full results, and a photo that will make your blood run cold, are after the jump.

(Fabricio Camoes preps for UFC debut. Via The Garv)

- All fighters make weight for UFC 106. (MMA Fanhouse)

- 50 greatest MMA dominations. (Complex)

- Forrest Griffin reflects on his potty mouth. (Cagewriter)

- Dana White weighs in on Karo Parisyan, Shane McMahon and more. (Sherdog)

- Pacquiao-Cotto did 1.25 million pay-per-view buys. (MMA Payout)

- Marcus Davis isn't done hating on Dan Hardy. (MMA Scraps)

- Matt Serra confirms Frank Trigg fight on for UFC 109. (Fight Network)

- Matt Mitrione says he's not even watching TUF anymore. (Fight Magazine)

- Karo Parisyan needs our support, not our disgust. (Bleacher Report)

- Rumble Round Table: UFC 106. (The Rumble)

- Manny Pacquiao would really like to fight Floyd Mayweather. (Scores Report)

- Mother Nature's Punch-Out. (Asylum)

- Why do hipsters love Jim Jarmusch movies? (Ask Men)

- 25 runway models falling down. (Holy Taco)

- Wreck of the Week: Nascar with friends. (All Left Turns)

- How to make the perfect Turducken. (Made Man)

- Awesome Star Wars cakes. (Screen Junkies)

- Soccer player takes an excruciating shot to the pills. (Nothing Toxic)

You know how some people have this magnetic quality to them that makes you want to like them, no matter what they might be saying or doing?  Guys like Jack Nicholson, or that Australian kid who threw the crazy party and refused to take off his sunglasses.  Even when they behave poorly, there's still something about them that makes it impossible not to be on their side.  Josh Koscheck is the complete opposite of that, and he displays it perfectly in this video interview with Fight Magazine.  Here he talks ever so smugly about how Anthony Johnson doesn't want to fight him, how he'd love to take 20% of his purse and then beat him up anyway, and how he fully intends to punish "Rumble" like the UFC wants him to.  It's the high school bully act, and Koscheck fits into the role so easily it's like he was born to do it.

As a contrast, Johnson couldn't find anything bad to say about Koscheck at all.  In fact, he called Koscheck an "entertaining" fighter and said he was "really respectable as a human being."  He said those things before this video of Koscheck smirking into the camera was posted to the internet.  Hopefully someone shows it to him before the fight tomorrow night.  He should at least go into it with a clear idea of the level of jerkitude that he's dealing with.

(Photo courtesy of ajc.com. Tie courtesy of Elton John.)

Heisman Trophy winner, two-time NFL Pro Bowl selection, Olympic bobsledder, Dissociative Identity Disorder sufferer, Celebrity Apprentice contestant, Tae Kwon Do black belt, and American Kickboxing Academy student Herschel Walker will make his MMA debut on January 30th at a Strikeforce event to be held at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida. The news was announced yesterday via press release, though Walker's opponent has yet to be named. The only other match tied to the card at this point is Cristiane "Cris Cyborg" Santos's 145-pound title defense against Marloes Coenen.

As Dana White pondered when Walker's Strikeforce signing was first announced: "Which athletic commission is going to let this guy fight? Who the fuck are they going to find to fight Herschel Walker? A guy in a wheelchair?” We now know the answer to the first question is "Florida," the state that previously signed off on Kimbo Slice vs. Ken Shamrock at the same venue last October. As for Dana's other hypotheticals, we hope that Herschel Walker's opponent has some kind of disability, considering that Walker has only been training in MMA since last month, and it wouldn't really be fair to make him fight a guy who has both fighting experience and the use of all of his limbs. I mean, if Strikeforce really wants to put Walker against Fedor Emelianenko in the spring, they'd better give him a beatable first opponent.

(Props: Heavy.com)

We're just one day away from the return of UFC legend/unbearable heel Tito Ortiz at UFC 106, and the former light-heavyweight champ promises to go out guns blazin' against Forrest Griffin: "I gotta put on a show, I gotta win, I gotta stop him, I gotta do what I need to do in my game to make Forrest quit." Though Ortiz claims to have improved his striking for this fight, he also won't be giving up his bread and butter. "Every time he kicks he's gonna be taken down. A lot of fighters don't take advantage of that when they see Forrest kick, they try to check all the kicks. The hell with that. I'm putting him on his back. Back to the old Tito Ortiz, man, my ground and pound where it's lethal...they'll be carrying him out on a stretcher."

Later, Ortiz says that he doesn't have a problem with the way that the UFC has used his name to build the careers of Griffin and Lyoto Machida, and regarding the rash of injuries and illnesses in the UFC as of late, he'd fight Forrest with a broken leg (which he clarifies he doesn't have, but still). The only thing that matters to him right now is becoming a world champion again, one match at a time. And if that gets in the way of roles in Mark Wahlberg flicks, so be it.

And yes, he's wearing the shades again. There's a reason for that...