Morning Droppings

- Undefeated UFC lightweight and NJ native Frankie Edgar is reportedly in preliminary talks with the UFC about appearing on a tentatively scheduled November 17 card in Newark, NJ. Keep your fingers crossed! For more on this story, click here.

- I was just reading an MMAWeekly piece about heavyweight Jeff "The Snowman" Monson, who has two scheduled scheduled within a two-week period. I knew that, but I guess I forgot. Tomorrow, Monson will face Chris Guillen as part of the Golbal Fighting Championships, and on September 1, he will face Pedro Rizzo for the IFA championship. Damn!

- A GracieFighter.com post from early this morning explains that the exclusivity of Antonio McKee’s IFL contract, as well as the threat of legal action by the IFL, will prevent McKee from fighting Jake Shields in October. Shields is awaiting a new opponent.

- Eighteen-year-old Ryan Shamrock, the son of Ken Shamrock, is scheduled to make his MMA debut at a Ken Shamrock Promotions event on August 25.

Morning Droppings

- An official press release from GracieFighter.com has announced a fight between Jake Shields and undefeated former IFL welterweight Antonio McKee, as well as the MMA debut of Mia St. John and Leland Chapman (Dog the Bounty Hunter’s son) on October 19 in San Francisco. Also expected to be on the card are Jeff Monson, Vernon White, Kimo Leopoldo, James Thompson, Dan Severn, and Krazy Horse Bennett.

- Doug Evans’ camp has said that an injury to Evans caused them to decline the October 20 fight with Jorge Gurgel as part of UFC 77. No official announcement has been made by the UFC about Gurgel's opponent

- After winning his UFL match last night, welterweight Chris Lytle announced that he had the chance to headline next month’s Spike TV UFC event but instead opted to fight for the UFL last night in his home town of Indianapolis, citing that the UFC event was not a pay-per-view event.