If you have a spare 20 minutes here’s a great radio interview with Rashad Evans giving an update on whats been going on with him recently. He talks about Rampage, Jon Jones, Andrei Arlovski, Greg Jackson and more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ3VRJkYG3c&feature=player_embedded

If you don’t have time or can’t listen here’s the sum up.

Evans is still on injury leave due to a strained MCL. According to him he’s undergoing stem cell and TPR therapy, and the recovery is going well. He aims to be fighting again by June this year.

Evans was rumored to be replacing Thiago Silva in UFC 130 against Rampage Jackson. Rashad said his management was pushing for the fight to happen, and it was a close thing. In the end, however, Dana White and Joe Silva weren’t ready for the rematch, and schedule Matt Hamill for the fight.

Rashad was also offered a fight against the younger Nogueira brother, but turned the fight down.  After being a top contender before the injury, he felt like the fight would be a “step back” in his career, and took his chances by passing the fight up.

Following the recent hype around Jon Jones, many have speculated that Evans could very well have to fight his teammate if Jones wins the title next week against Shogun. In past interviews, they have both stated they would never fight each other, but recently that line has become hazy. Rashad explains his reasoning behind not fighting Jones, saying it would put one of them at a disadvantage, as they would have to change camps for the fight. It doesn’t seem like the fight is totally out of the question, but it would be difficult.

Possible fights aside, Rashad is confident in his teammates chances against the champion Maurcio “Shogun” Rua. Evans says that, no disrespect to Shogun, Jones is just too athletic and dynamic for him, and proves it every day in the gym.

Rashad states he could make the cut to middleweight so he wouldn’t have to face his teammate, but that it is not his desire to do so. It would throw off his game too much to have to cut weight right before a fight. He did say, however, that if an interesting enough matchup were presented to him at middleweight, he would consider it, but the chances of it happening seem purely circumstantial.