Your weekly update on what MMA's big-show alumni are up to on the regional circuit.
Before the UFC light-heavyweight title madness kicks off this Saturday, let's take a look back at last weekend's regional action to see how former big-show talent has been faring under the world's more modest MMA banners.
A contractual stalemate has made him absent from Spike TV, but current Bellator heavyweight champion Vitaly Minakov (16-0, 5-0 Bellator) has nevertheless kept a busy schedule, taking fights on the Russian circuit and maintaining his status as one of the sport's best big men fighting outside the UFC.