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WEC 43 Saw Henderson Win By A 47-48 Decision
Brilliant, mesmerizing, unbelievable. As much as I adore adjectives, they cannot describe the flurry of activity that swept through the octagon in the AT&T Center in San Antonio tonight...
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I Hope That Jake Shields Gives Mayhem Miller an Attitude Adjustment
In the old Western movies I loved to watch with my father, when I was around seven, it was easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys by looking at the color of the hats they wore...
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BJ Penn, Grandma Dee Thanks You!
Will wonders never cease? Here I am, one of the most hated critics of BJ Penn, wanting to embrace him sincerely and thank him with great warmth for something he has recently said about another fighter...
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Can Tito Ortiz Make Forrest Run?
Whew! I think looking Tito Ortiz directly in the eyes is a pretty scary experience. If I were an opponent in the octagon facing him before a fight, I fear I would wet myself in front of God and everybody...
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Quinton Rampage Jackson: Ain't He Sweet?
Ain't He Sweet? Yes, I am talking about one of my favorite ex-UFC fighters, Quinton Rampage Jackson. While many would disagree about the "sweetness" factor that Jackson may or may not have, ...
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Just Ruminating on MMA
With all of the recent new stories, gossip, and upcoming events, it has been very difficult to keep my mind on just one subject. Yes, I am old; I like to ramble on about my favorite subject, which is everything MMA...
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Hey, Patrick Cote, Have I Got a Deal for You!
Talk about having a real flashback moment! I think I just had one. Most of the time I find that I look at the sport of MMA, and particularly the UFC, somewhat differently from the young writers that inhabit the keyboards of the Bleacher Report...
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To Dana White: Why Now, Dana?
OK. I have heard that heavy weighs the head that wears the crown. You, Dana White, have more or less crowned yourself as the King who saved the UFC and now reign supreme over the whole MMA kingdom, ...
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UFC: Hoping That Marriage Will Turn Fedor Around?
Mike Chiappetta, my personal favorite MMA reporter, revealed the news today that Fedor Emelianenko has married for the second time in The Russian Orthodox Church in the small town of Stary Oskol where he lives...
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Can "Bones" Break the "Hammer" in UFC Action?
Here I go again, writing an article when I cannot remember all the facts I would like to be able to use for it. I can hear you young folks groaning at this old girls deficits and wondering why the hell I persist in writing any way...
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What Does Big Country Hope to Accomplish in the UFC?
A couple of years ago, I saw "Big Country" Roy Nelson fighting in a foreign country, maybe Russia, for Bodog Fighting or some other now-defunct company...
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Shane Carwin Urges "Bring Your Child to Work"
***Picture by MMAJunkie.com Something deep within me loves an apt, memorable slogan, quote or adage. "Iron sharpens iron," "still waters run deep," and "experience keeps a dear school, but a ...
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What Grandma Suspects Of Dana White
Since I have been told by several readers very frankly that I do not know the difference between Shinola and something else someone could get on the bottom of a shoe (in a yard with a dog), I feel impelled to list what I suspect to be true of the man...
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UFC 105: Manchester, England
Suddenly my mind is in a fog. Whether this is a result of watching LardGate and seeing Roy "Big Country" Nelson lay to victory atop Kimbo Slice, my MS plaques increasing, or my diabetes being out of control, I just don't know...
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TUF 10: More Like a Slice to Big Country
Revelation: I missed a fighting opportunity! Why didn't I intuit that Rampage needed someone with a big belly to lie on Kimbo Slice? Usually I have very good intuition. I have always thought I had some sort of connection with Quinton Rampage Jackson...
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MMA: Fighting Shorts, Grandma Styled
Wishfully thinking, designing MMA fighter's shorts should probably be my next undertaking in life. I have always loved art, studied it, and still practice creating pieces in almost every medium, ...
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Kimbo Slice:Everything Is Coming Up Roses
Ok all you fans of Kevin Ferguson, aka Kimbo Slice, start telling me and all the other doubters that you tried to tell us so way back when that he was a legitimate MMA force...
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Matt Hughes: Who Is Old Enough To Fight You if Josh Koscheck Isn't?
Grandma must be dumbing down these days. A lot of what I read about the goings-on in the world of the UFC just does not make any sense to me at all...
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Has Forrest Griffin "Got Fight?"
While reading the latest interview on Forrest Griffin, I was very interested when he said that he didn't and never had liked himself very much...
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Brock Lesnar: Will Fatherhood Have Effect Like It Did Dexter?
After watching Dexter, one of my favorite series on Showtime tonight, I began to wonder how much fatherhood will affect Brock Lesnar and his MMA career. Of course, maybe it won't be that much of a factor...
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"Evolving With The Changes!"
All my readers must know by now that I get Google notices on everything written on MMA. I don't think of reading all the available articles written by sportswriters as being a rip off or form of copying other's ideas...
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Why Must Anderson Silva Lose?
I adore Anderson Silva. He has charisma, personality to spare, a kooky sense of humor, and he is a hell of a MMA fighter...
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UFC 103: Waiting Is The Hardest Part
Has anyone else ever noticed how hard it is to wait for a UFC event? By the time it is only a day a way I am almost crazy with anticipation...
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Mayweather, Bob Arum on "Mixed Martial Aryans?"
Grandma Dee is perplexed. If anyone wants to tell me I have gotten this all wrong, they are more than welcome to do so. Subjects like this are confusing and distasteful to me...
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What Is Georges St-Pierre's Kryptonite?
You've seen him punch, you've seen him sprawl, but you have only seen him fail to win on two occasions. When Georges St-Pierre lost his first fight with Matt Hughes, you could tell ...
