Baltimore's Binky Jones will be traveling to Russia Nov. 30 to fight in BodogFight's next event there, according to Ground Control co-owner John Rallo. Jones, a lightweight, will square off against Vladimir Zenin and will be looking to rebound from a split decision loss to Nick Agallar in his last BodogFight bout.

Zenin actually defeated Agallar in his last BodogFight fight.  Zenin has spent most of his MMA career fighting in the Russian promotion, M-1.

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Two more interviews up at MMA Madness.  The first one is with UFC light heavyweight sensation Houston Alexander, who has risen rapidly up the ranks with two explosive victories.  In this quote, Alexander discusses how he got his first UFC fight and the fact that he didn't know who Keith Jardine was:

I fought on one of Monty Cox’s shows [Extreme Challenge 76] just before the first UFC fight. And I ended up winning it [Alexander actually won one match against Joe Murphy and he fought Todd Allee to a no contest]. And these were guys twice my size. I thought I would get a PRIDE contract. A couple of weeks after that, Monty called me and asked if I wanted to fight in the UFC. And I told him, “Hmmm, let me think about that one. Yes!” So it was fairly quick. They told me I had to fight Keith Jardine and I said, “Who?” I didn’t know who he was. Previously, I didn’t watch that many UFC’s in the first place. The fights that I did see, I knew I could get in there and do some damage. So I said, “Let’s do it.”

You can read the rest of Jeff Hamlin's interview with Alexander here.

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The other interview is with UFC and PRIDE veteran Josh Barnett.  Barnett currently doesn't have a deal with a promotion and hasn't fought this year.  In this interview, Barnett also tells Ben Zeidler why he and Dana White don't get along:

When I think somebody says something that's B.S., or if I think that something isn't being done up to par, then I say something. That's probably why. I've been in this business longer then he has, and there's just a certain amount of respect that I expect, and I don't necessarily feel like I get that from him all of the time. He says some things and that's fine. He's allowed to make any statements he wants; I'm going to make a rebuttal. It's up to him if he wants to get real torqued off about it, not me.

To read more of Barnett's intriguing thoughts on a number of subjects, including how to change MMA's scoring system and what he thinks of Renato Sobral's dismissal from UFC, click here.