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The doctor stoppage in Roger Huerta's recent TKO loss at the hands of Bellator lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez was questioned by some, but credit the cageside physician for saving Huerta from further damage.

According to Huerta's manager Jeff Clark, the game lightweight suffered broken orbital bones in both eyes during the course of the bout.

The Kenny Florian vs. Evan Dunham match which was originally scheduled for the February Super Bowl weekend event has been shifted to a January 22 event tentatively scheduled to take place at Fort Hood, Texas.

MMA Fighting has confirmed the fight's change with sources with knowledge of the situation. The news was first reported by Heavy.com.

WEC fighters have always had to scrap and claw for attention that is usually directed towards the athletes of the UFC. With the recent merger news, that's changing in a hurry. Several of the WEC's fights over its final two events have implications that will affect the division when it is rechristened with three familiar letters.

One of those bouts is WEC 52's featherweight matchup pitting unbeaten Chad Mendes against veteran Javier Vazquez. Both men are trying to work their way to the front of the line for consideration at a title shot. But to hear Vazquez tell it, Mendes hasn't exactly earned his keep. In a recent interview with the Las Vegas Sun, Vazquez said that while Mendes is a good athlete, "he's been kind of spoon-fed in a lot of ways," and "the second he runs into somebody he can't just bully around, he's going to break."

On Monday evening, Mendes responded.

Nate Quarry was finally cleared to train again six months after undergoing major facial reconstruction surgery following his loss to Jorge Rivera in March. However, that doesn't necessarily mean "Rock" is looking to fight again in the UFC.

The veteran admitted on Monday's episode of The MMA Hour that he is actually contemplating retiring from MMA competition.

"We'll see," Quarry responded when asked if he will ever fight again. "It's kind of nice, actually, taking this time off, waking up in the morning knowing that I don't necessarily have to get punched today and I've got so many other incredible opportunities going on, so we'll see where my career takes me. I've been fighting for 12 years, training for 14. So 12 years, that's a lot. I started with absolutely nothing, literally living the American Dream. I saw the UFC on TV when I was 24, opened up the phone book, found a gym and started training. I didn't have any wrestling experience ... I was the guy sitting on the couch watching the fights, got up, went out, joined a gym. If I can do it, anybody can because I had no athletic ability from day one. Just willing to take my beating and move forward."

One of the big projects Quarry is working on his new Zombie Cage Fighter line, which he hopes will become a TV series, comic book, movie and clothing line. Watch his appearance on The MMA Hour below. Watch the entire show here.

If you ask Art Jimmerson now, he'll admit that he never thought the UFC would still be around nearly two decades from the night he stepped into the Octagon for the first and last time. He certainly never thought that, seventeen years after his short, but memorable bout with Royce Gracie at UFC 1, he'd be teaching boxing at a UFC gym in Rosemead, Calif.

And yet here he is, now 47 years old and retired from boxing, sitting on some heavy bags next to a cage not so unlike the one he saw for the first time, along with the American public, in November of 1993.

"I remember my manager told me, 'Man this thing ain't going anywhere. It's too far out there.' That's how it seemed at the time, but now look at it," he says and gestures at the expansive gym around him. "Who knew, right?"

Not Jimmerson. Not back then. He was a former Golden Gloves champion riding a fifteen-fight win streak as a professional. He'd had nearly thirty fights as a pro, and his career seemed like it was finally on the verge of taking off. Fighting a bunch of karate teachers and toughmen in front of a couple thousand people in Denver sounded like a relatively easy night of work.

The always self-motivated Anthony Pettis required no extra incentive to perform well in his upcoming WEC lightweight title challenge against Ben Henderson at WEC 53. So when the stakes of the fight was raised last Friday -- the winner would receive a UFC title shot -- Pettis' new concern was the potential problem of too much motivation.

"I have a problem with overtraining," Pettis said Monday on The MMA Hour. "I'm the first guy in the gym and the last guy to leave, so [coach] Duke [Roufus] really monitors how much I train and makes sure I'm not overtraining."

In just a little over three years into his professional MMA career, Pettis has an opportunity to meet the winner of the Jan. 1 UFC title fight between Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard at a later date.

"This adds more fuel to the fire," Pettis added. "I just have to make sure how much I pay attention to this, I don't want to overtrain."

Ryan Couture has been forced to withdraw from his Strikeforce Challengers fight later this month against Juan Zapata due to a staph infection, the organization announced Monday evening.

"I was really looking forward to fighting so this is a big disappointment, but I'll be back" Couture stated in a press release. "As soon as I'm cleared, you can bet I'll be back in the gym preparing for my next Strikeforce fight."

The release also stated that the 28-year-old is expected to be out of action for three to four weeks. No word on when he will fight next.

Despite being one of the more recognizable names attached to the WEC brand, former featherweight champ Mike Brown learned of the recent UFC-WEC merger the same way most people did: via the Internet.

"[The WEC] kept it hidden very well," Brown said Monday on MMAFighting.com's The MMA Hour. "Usually you hear the rumors and stuff starts to pop up, but I didn't hear anything until -- Boom! It was all over the Internet and my friends were calling me and telling me."

According to the 35-year-old American Top Teamer, nobody in the organization told him before the news broke and it wasn't until the following day when he touched on the subject with a company representative through matchmaker Sean Shelby.

UFC heavyweight Roy Nelson was four days removed from knee surgery when the UFC approached him about fighting on the Jan. 1 card. His doctor advised against it, but "Big Country" agreed anyway, which is what it makes it all the more painful to have the bout pulled out from under him now that his opponent, Shane Carwin, has withdrawn with a back injury, Nelson told MMA Fighting.

"I was bummed, but the only reason I was bummed was just because of how much I was pushed to fight Shane. Because of my knee surgery, my doctor said I shouldn't fight until like February or March, and I kind of got pushed into it.

"That's the reason why it hurts, more than anything, is just the fact that I was pushed into something that I really didn't want to do but was going to do just because you don't want to hear the 'Are you an f-ing fighter?' speech. Everybody knows, you never fight 100%, but it was an opportunity and I was more than willing to jump on the opportunity."

When it comes to pound-for-pound rankings, the biggest question is always how to deal with heavyweights. Some people think a pound-for-pound list should never include any heavyweight champions at all. Others say if you're the heavyweight champ, you belong in the Top 10, just as the champions at bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight and light heavyweight belong.

When Fedor Emelianenko was the heavyweight king, I always had him on my pound-for-pound list. But when Brock Lesnar took Fedor's place as the sport's top heavyweight, I didn't list Lesnar. My feeling was that Lesnar's greatness was much more about size and strength than skill, and therefore Lesnar wasn't really suited to being in the pound-for-pound Top 10.

Now that Cain Velasquez is the heavyweight champion of the world, I'm back to having a heavyweight in my Top 10. Find out where and why below.