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No, sorry, this isn’t the post that finally clears up when Brock Lesnar will get back in the cage, but it should lay to rest any speculation that Lesnar’s leaky intestine was caused by any suspected steroid usage. MMA Junkie’s Dr. Johnny Benjamin has the word.

Dana White talks about the insane string of injuries that have hit the UFC lately, Keith Kizer and his criticism of Steve Mazzagatti.

Lyoto Machida’s victory over Mauricio “Shogun” Rua was easily one of the most, if not the most, controversial decision of the year. Seemingly everyone who watched it live thought Shogun slayed the Dragon at UFC 104 except for the three people whose opinions actually counted for the official record. Well, make that two people because Nelson “Doc” Hamilton now realizes he made a mistake giving Machida round four.

In a perfect world, all “Big” John McCarthy had to do to become a licensed referee once again in the State of Nevada was apply. And he did. Being widely regarded as by far the best referee in mixed martial arts, his approval by the NSAC should merely be a formality, right?

In a time where nearly everyone, including Dana White, agrees that mixed martial arts is severely lacking quality referees, the one widely regarded as the best, ‘Big’ John McCarthy, has still not made his return to officiating in the Octagon. This is largely attributed to comments McCarthy made as broadcaster for The Fight Network about the UFC and NSAC head Keith Kizer that apparently weren’t taken too well by both parties.

Like many of us, it seems as though Keith Kizer is ready to move on from GreaseGate. He doesn’t believe the commission will bring forth any disciplinary action against GSP or his cornermen, at least not with the current evidence and testimony. Penn and his lawyer, on the other hand, aren’t quite as ready to let it go, but at least BJ hasn’t forgotten about his lightweight title defense against Kenny Florian late this summer.

More UFC 94 photos at NBCSports.com

The Nevada State Athletic Commission will gather today to review the greasing allegations made against Georges St. Pierre and his cornermen, Phil Nurse and Greg Jackson, stemming from GSP’s UFC 94 bout with BJ Penn.

We should learn this afternoon what could possibly come of all this. Many fans, myself included, are growing tired of this whole situation and it’s relieving to know that it will (hopefully) be dealt with in a timely and effective manner. Keith Kizer spoke to Sherdog about how he feels the meeting might go down.

The main thing here [for Tuesday’s hearing] is let’s see what happened in the fight and let’s find out what happened from Phil [Nurse] and Greg [Jackson], what happened and why it happened. Secondly, let’s figure out a way to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Now whether it goes beyond that is up to the commissioners — and it may or may not…. What I see happening is something along these lines: a very strict warning to Phil, a warning to everybody that there’s no place for this, and maybe something [determined] along the lines that every corner can have one designated Vaseline guy and that guy can not touch the fighter anywhere else on his body, except for his face, until the end of the fight.

It’s not a formal complaint per say, but BJ Penn’s camp, specifically BJ’s lawyer Raffi Nahabedian, has filed a letter with the NSAC requesting the commission to investigate Georges St. Pierre and his cornermen for greasing.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had about all I can take of the GSP Vaseline controversy.