The middle of the week has crept up like an unsuspecting left hook. As the weekend approaches, it is the EliteXC who is ready to throw the punches. But they’ll have to land some stiff shots to compete with all the hard-hitting action that took place last weekend. Let’s start swinging with the Wednesday Crunch.

Fightticker.com picked up the Q and A’s from the latest EliteXC conference call. See what Robbie Lawler, Scott Smith and company had to say about this weekend’s upcoming action.

MMA Weekly offers its updated world rankings throughout every weight class. Quinton Jackson and Tim Sylvia still are ranked way too high.

Robbie Lawler has built up quite a resume heading into this weekend’s EliteXC main event against Scott Smith. 411mania.com offers an extensive profile on Lawler as well as some highlights from his past fights.

Gina Corano will be signing autographs at the world famous Comic-Convention today in San Diego according to the Orlando Sentinel. GSP will be also be featured there later this week.

Kevin Lole of Yahoo Sports lauds Affliction’s debut event and explains why the UFC has reason to be worried.

Over on the WEC website, welterweight title holder Carlos Condit is portrayed as a champion in and out of the cage.

In spite of his recent loss, Quinton Jackson is still managing to grab headlines. In fact, most of the daily crunch is devoted to Jackson’s rampage through the streets of Costa Mesa, California. The story has shifted the attention from all this weekend’s action to Jackson’s fight with the law. Let’s get crunching as we get you every little detail on California’s newest criminal.

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson is a free man after posting $25,000 bail following his flight from authorities. MMajunkie.com has more on Jackson’s release.

Following Jackson’s rampage, rumors surfaced about his hospitalization due to the fact he was declared mentally unfit for booking. However, those rumors have yet to be confirmed. Fiveouncesofpain.com posts the specifics of the unconfirmed rumor.

How will Jackson’s latest actions affect the sport of mma as a whole? MMApayout.com doesn’t seem to think the incident will have a negative impact on the sport and goes on to explain why.

It doesn’t look like Jackson was under the influence of drugs or alcohol during yesterday’s chase. Fightticker.com has the press release issued by the Costa Mesa Police department following Jackson’ arrest.

Sherdog.com has the story of another Emelianenko. See how Aleksander Emelianenko survived the mean streets of Russia to make to the world of mixed martial arts.

Losses seem to have come Mike Pyle’s way at the most inopportune times of his career. The welterweight is hoping that will not be a reoccurrence this coming weekend at at Affliction’s Banned. Pyle goes on toe share his thoughts about the fight with MMA Weekly.