Former UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans has suffered back-to-back losses for the first time in his career, so he knows his back is against the wall when he fights Dan Henderson at UFC 161 in June.

While speaking on FUEL TV’s “UFC Tonight” yesterday, “Suga” indicated that a long-rumored drop to middleweight may finally come to fruition if he comes up short against the former PRIDE and Strikeforce title holder (transcription via MMA Mania).

“No, I'm not worried about losing my job. I put in a lot of good fights at the UFC and I'm confident that I'm not going to lose my next fight. If I lose my next fight, I would consider dropping down a weight class,” Evans said.

“If I drop down to 185 and things weren't going right, then I would think about retiring."

Evans, who also won season 2 of “The Ultimate Fighter” as a heavyweight, was a front-runner to face UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva if he was able to get past Antonio Rogerio Nogueira at UFC 156 in February.

However, Evans came out flat and suffered a lackluster unanimous decision loss to his Brazilian counterpart, killing any notion of a superfight with Silva.

Evans, one of the founding members of Florida’s “Blackzilian” training camp, offered no excuses for the disappointing performance.

"I watched a little bit of the (Nogueira) fight. It was a lackluster performance on my part. It was one of those life lessons. You watch a fight like that, and it's like, ‘What was I thinking? Where was my head?' It took me weeks to get my head around what I did.”

Three losses in a row usually spells the end for just about any UFC fighter these days.

However, given Evans’ body of work, which includes wins over Michael Bisping, Chuck Liddell, Forrest Griffin, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Phil Davis, that may not be the case here.

Should Evans, an average-sized light heavyweight at best, have been fighting at 185-pounds all along?