"Bully Beatdown" host Jason "Mayhem" Miller announced here that he would be fighting Jake Shields for the Strikeforce 185 pound belt, but it appears now that the actuality is not 100% that it will happen according to Mayhem, and also as there have been no official confirmation or further updates. Regardless, this is no reason for Mayhem to avoid stirring the pot a little.  Well, had he only said "I do everything better than him" in reference to Shields, that would qualify as minimal and acceptable pot-stirring.  However, in standard Mayhem style, he fully grasped the giant pot-stirring spoon with both hands and raucously agitated the contents of said pot with the statement:  "I will beat the piss out of Jake Shields, and he knows it." Here are the highlights of Mayhem's quotes from his interview with our friends at CagePotato.com:

"Dude, I will beat the piss out of Jake Shields, and he knows it. If everyone thinks I’m gonna lose, that’s fine. I’ll prove them wrong when we get in the cage against each other. I do everything better than him, and I’m bigger than him and stronger than him! I don’t understand, people think that because he stomped out some 170-pounders and caught Robbie Lawler in a damn guillotine, that all of a sudden he’s the second coming of Christ. Well guess what, dude? I’m gonna smash him. When I fight him, I’ll smash him."

Egads!  Have we failed to learn the poetic lesson and important wisdom that is the enlightening essence taught by "Bully Beatdown" so soon?  Inevitably lost is the mantra of respectful humility and the avoidance of volatile pitfalls such as presumptuous overconfidence and the arrogant air of invincibility from the show's host towards one of the show's bully-beaters. Regardless, this will be a great fight.  Mayhem has a point in that Shields has somewhat struggled against larger fighters, where he is reduced to rely solely on his strong wrestling and near-immaculate ground game.  Conversely, Mayhem has also struggled with strong grapplers, illustrated by his losses to Sonnen, Kennedy, GSP, Trigg, and Jacare.  Both men have fought at both WW and MW, each settling for the latter recently.  I think the overriding point is that this proves Strikeforce can churn-out premiere fights, as this is an intriguing match-up stylistically between two top 185'ers and quite a worthy way to legitimize the MW belt until Cung Le returns.

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