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As wealthy and powerful as Dana White is, there's still nothing that gives him as much joy as playing practical jokes on his employees.  Why?  Because a) money can't buy the happiness that someone else's temporary displeasure brings, and b) they can't really get mad unless they want to risk losing their job.  It's the perfect joke.  Aside from Dana's experiments with the Bomb Bag, which mostly fails to elicit the kind of 'oh, shit!' reaction he's looking for, this episode is mostly just DW giving away loads of tickets to grateful fans, sometimes in bulk.  It kind of makes you wonder, is the UFC planning on selling any tickets to this event?  After watching this it's going to be even more difficult than usual to take Mike Goldberg at his word when he references the sold-out arena on the UFC 104 broadcast.

After the jump, a preview of tonight's "Ultimate Fighter," wherein Darrill "Titties" Schoonover has finally had enough of "Rampage" Jackson's breast-related harassment.

— Shogun's trainer thinks that the fact that Rua has never been knocked out will somehow protect him from getting knocked out by Machida.

One of things we didn't see in Dana White's most recent video blog from the lovely Casablanca hotel and casino in Mesquite, Nevada was him sitting down for a conversation with Raw Vegas' Dave Farra.  Not that we blame DW for cutting that portion out.  I mean, talking to Dave isn't going to be the highlight of anyone's night, trust me.  But it is interesting to hear how White characterizes his negotiations with Dan Henderson, and just how different that characterization is from the way Hendo sees things.  According to White, they couldn't come to terms with Henderson because he "was looking for an obscene amount of money."  Now there's an interesting use of the past tense.  Chances are that if you asked Henderson, he'd tell you that he continues to want that same amount of money in the present.

Sucker Punch Knock Out - Watch more Funny Videos

After following everything MMA for the last few years we’ve seen some pretty egregious sucker punch knockouts.  These violations of stated rules, good sportsmanship, and the social contract itself seem to pop up every now and then, and sometimes you can’t help but wonder how some of these people have stayed out of prison long enough to become MMA fighters.  But this one…it’s unbelievable.  We don’t know who these guys are, but by the look of it they appear to be fighting for some kind of belt in a cage that’s only slightly larger than a phone booth.  After a nose-to-nose staredown, the fighter with the Chuck-hawk gets the bright idea to blow his opponent a kiss.  What he didn’t know was that he was blowing that kiss to a complete sociopath.

So what makes this worse than sucker punches of the past, like Heath Herring’s swipe at Yoshihiro Nakao?  We’re glad you asked…

Well, they're back.  UFC president Dana White may say that he's done doing video blogs from time to time, but who's he kidding, the siren's song of talking into a camera is impossible to resist for very long.  In this edition, DW travels to Mesquite, Nevada to watch his cousin lose a fight (though we don't get to see exactly how he loses, which is weird).  After that he heads to Los Angeles to give away some UFC 104 tickets with the help of Twitter, which, to hear Dana tell it, is the most magical invention of the last fifty years.  Don't get us wrong, we use it too, but does he realize that it's basically just Facebook status updates without any of the other perks?

After the jump, a preview of the UFC 104 "Countdown" show, including Lyoto Machida's hero's welcome in Brazil after winning the light heavyweight strap.  What do you want to bet that Rashad Evans did not get the same response when he won it?