UFC President Dana White had better watch his back at The Ultimate Fighter 7 Finale. Tito Ortiz, who has had a well documented war of words with the UFC head honcho made the following statement on the underground forum two days ago:

"Dana is going to get a SLAP!!! This weekend. I will be front row and walk up and slap him! Just watch when I get kick out, you will know why. THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dana is my BITCH!!!!"

Former UFC Champion Tito Ortiz's contract with the UFC expired after his last performace, a loss against his contender, Lyoto Machida. Ortiz is currently weighing his options, which has included joining a rival promotion such as Affliction or EliteXC, or starting his own MMA promotion.

The Ultimate Fighter 7 Finale will come to us live from Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas, Nevada this Saturday night starting at 9 PM ET/PT.

Below are the official weight in results for the event:

• Kendall Grove (186 lbs.) VS Evan Tanner (186 lbs.)

• CB Dollaway (185 lbs.) VS Amir Sadollah (185 lbs.)

• Luigi Fioravanti (171 lbs.) VS Diego Sanchez (170 lbs.)

• Jeremy Stephens (155 lbs.) VS Spencer Fisher (156 lbs.)

• Dante Rivera (185 lbs.) VS Matt Riddle (185 lbs.)

• Dustin Hazelett (170 lbs.) VS Josh Burkman (170 lbs.)

• Drew McFedries (185 lbs.) VS Marvin Eastman (186 lbs.)

• Matt Arroyo (170 lbs.) VS Matt Brown (170 lbs.)

• Dean Lister (185 lbs.) VS Jeremy Horn (186 lbs.)

• Cale Yarbrough (186 lbs.) VS Tim Credeur (185 lbs.)

• Rob Yundt (185 lbs.) VS Rob Kimmons (185 lbs.)

Affliction Entertainment, scheduled to make its MMA debut on July 19 at Honda Center in Anaheim, California, keeps building this event with the latest news – a heavy metal band Megadeth, led by frontman, guitarist, and songwriter Dave Mustaine, will be performing live at the event.

According to a spokesperson for Affliction, Megadeth will be performing a key points during the event itself.

The platinum selling band has sold more than 20 million albums worldwide and will perform a special highlight performance. Known for their distinctive, in-your-face guitar solos, snarling vocal style, and dark lyrical themes, Megadeth is sure to resonate with the "Affliction Banned" fan base and intensify the already action-packed event.

"Affliction Banned", a MMA pay-per-view event in association with Roy Englebrecht Events, features former undisputed Pride Fighting Championships Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko against former two time UFC Heavyweight titleholder Tim Sylvia.

A four-fight pay-per-view undercard includes Josh Barnett, facing off stateside for the first time in two years, in a grudge match against the only opponent to ever knock him out, Brazilian Pedro Rizzo.

Three times All-American wrestler Mike Whitehead will battle Brazilian Renato "Babalu" Sobral. 2000 Olympic wrestling silver medalist Matt Lindland faces Brazilian Fabio "Negao" Nascimento. Former International Fight League (IFL) titlist Ben Rothwell is scheduled to fight Andre Arlovski.

Jiu-jitsu expert Dean Lister will make his return to the Octagon on June 21 at the Ultimate Fighter 7 finale on SpikeTV against fellow tactician Jeremy Horn. Lister and Horn have a history together because they fought back in 2003 where Horn earned the majority decision victory. It was a close fight, but Lister came up short and he's looking forward to getting some redemption.

"Absolutely. If you are a true fighter, you definitely want to avenge any kind of loss you ever had," Lister said recently on an interview with MMAWeekly radio. "I definitely want to have a good fight here."

While that loss did hurt Lister's career a little bit, he maintained a positive attitude in his defeat. "I care if I win, I care if I lose. But every single fight you have, win or lose, it's something on your path and your journey to become a better fighter. That's all I want to do is become a better fighter. That was just one little stop on my journey. That's all it was. No big deal."

"The Boogeyman" hasn't fought since UFC 79 back in December where he defeated Jordan Radev. Prior to that fight, he had an eleven-month hiatus. Part of the reason for the layoff was for Lister to prepare himself mentally to fight and the other part was because of a serious bicep injury before and after his fight with Nate Marquardt.

"Before that fight, I had hurt it sparring," Lister explained. "I pulled it. And after the Marquardt fight, I completely tore it. Just imagine snapping a rubber band. I felt it and it didn't feel good."

The San Diego native has had a pretty successful MMA career thus far, but he is well known for his wins in Abu Dhabi. Lister had been asked if he had any plans to return to competitive grappling in the near future. "Right now, the only grappling one I'd consider is Abu Dhabi," he replied. "That's my home. If they'd call me and say someone's injured and we'd like you to fight in a super fight, I'd do it. Other than that, I really want to concentrate on my mixed martial arts. I want to focus all my time and energy to that now."

A lot of jiu-jitsu practitioners have tried to emerge in the MMA world. Some have enjoyed success and some have failed. Lister shed some light on why there are ups and downs with some of the transitions. "Who was it that said, everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face? It's a huge thing to say whether you can take a hit or not. I'm very fortunate. I don't know if I'm part Neanderthal. I can take a hit. I don't want to, but I can. It's either something you can do or you can't."

However, Lister believes the most invaluable piece of advice he can give is to get involved with a great camp. "It's the number one piece of advice I give. The number one thing you can do consciously as a fighter is find a solid training camp. You can't train yourself. What you can do is trust your training from someone who really knows what they're doing."

Horn is a legend in the sport and has over 100 fights to his credit. Lately, he has hit a slide losing three out of his last four bouts, all fights that he was finished in. That doesn't mean much to Lister, as he would never underestimate Horn's unmistakable ability to show up at any point.

"With Jeremy Horn, he's such a well-rounded fighter that's been around for so long," Lister commented. "I'd hate to try to identify what he's going through right now. Everyone goes up and down, and has things happen to them. I don't know what's going to happen. The reason I don't know is because he's so well-rounded. I'm just going to try to focus on what I can do. Look at Wanderlei Silva. He lost three fights in a row, and came back and looked great. I don't want to count anyone out or in."

One priority that the San Diego native has on Saturday night is to go out and have an exciting fight. That's why he never thinks about the next fight and only concentrates on the task in front of him. "We can't just go in there thinking about our next fight. I have to try to make it a very exciting fight. The UFC being the biggest organization in the world, who knows who can be cut at any point? I'd rather get "Fight of the Night" than "Submission of the Night".

Lister will admit he's not the type of guy who goes out and challenges individual fighters. He wants to fight whoever the UFC matches him up with and anyone who gets him one step closer to his professional goal: the UFC middleweight title. "Maybe it would be more exciting if I challenged guys all the time. I'll fight whoever they put in front of me. I'll fight whoever is the right guy for me to fight at the time. I would love to have the UFC middleweight title around my waist at some point. I mean, if that's not my goal, then I shouldn't be fighting."

When asked for a prediction for the fight, Lister said, "What's going to happen is… I don't like to predict what happens. I see there being action. I see it going to the ground. I see two guys going in who like to finish fights. And I think it's going to go that way, finishing the fight."

UFC President, Dana White has strung MMA fans along for a couple of weeks with talk of a major announcement. Today the announcement was revealed. Kevin Iole is reporting that Lorenzo Fertitta, part owner of the UFC, will resign from his position as President of Station Casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada to devote all of his time to working with the UFC.

Fertitta told Iole that the move was required due to the UFC's enormous groth and potential.

"The problem, if there is a problem, is that the business has gotten so successful, it's requiring more time, focus and attention," Fertitta said. “Station Casinos is a business my family and I have built and now it's a multi-billion dollar company. But the reality is, the UFC has gone through so much growth in the last eight years, my brother and I felt we'd be better in divide and conquer mode. He'll stay at Station Casinos and take care of that and I'll come over here and work on the issues involving the UFC."

The Fertitta's will still share ownership of the company but Frank Fertitta will now operate the family casino business solo as Lorenzo heads up the UFC's global expansion.

"Think about this for a second: India has 350 million men between the ages of 18 and 34, and that's our key demographic," Fertitta told Iole. "The magnitude of these markets is staggering. Dana has been doing a phenomenal job with this company, and I've been doing what I could given my responsibilities (at Station Casinos). The UFC is going to have a global footprint in the not-too-distant future. We're already working on furthering our position in Brazil. This is getting so big that it demanded I spend more time with it."

Dana White acknoledges that fans may be let down by the announcement but feels that the potential of the UFC with Fertitta coming on full time will catapult the company to new hights.

"I think the potential for the UFC within the next five years globally is that it is going to be bigger than the NFL, bigger than Major League Baseball. As huge as the NFL is here, they don't give a (expletive) about the NFL in Europe. But fighting transcends continents. Everybody on every continent understands a fight."

"The Internet may not consider this huge news, but what the people on the Internet think is huge and what I think is huge are two different things. But you know what? I think I have a pretty good track record. I think this is maybe the biggest day in UFC history. I'm so excited, I can't begin to explain it to you. This is an historic day for me and this company," White said.