Nate Marquardt is mired in the middleweight shuffle.  Despite a
4-0 record in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and 28 pro
victories in mixed martial arts, Marquardt has yet to get his
ticket punched for a UFC title fight.  After his last
performance in the octagon, however, the wait might finally be
over.  At Ultimate Fight Night 8 in January, Marquardt dominated
submission specialist Dean Lister, knocking him around the cage
en route to a unanimous-decision victory. Demonstrating a potent
stand-up attack, Marquardt sent Lister to the mat five times in
the fight, leading two judges to score the mismatch 30-25.
"That was one of the best-executed game plans I've ever seen,"
said Greg Jackson, who trains Marquardt out of his Albuquerque,
N.M., camp. "He went out and played his game and kept Lister
from his. That's what fighting is all about."  Winning is what
the 27-year-old Marquardt is all about. A pro since 1999,
Marquardt owned the middleweight division of Pancrase, a Japan-
based MMA organization, earlier