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Handicapping the Odds for Every Main Card Fight at UFC on FX 7
This Saturday night, UFC on FX 7 goes down from Sao Paulo, Brazil. The main card pits would-be middleweight title challenger Michael Bisping against former middleweight title challenger Vitor Belfort...
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Tim Kennedy Announces Move to UFC, Thinks Chris Leben Would Be 'A Great Fight'
Middleweight Tim Kennedy has confirmed that his next fight will indeed take place in the UFC. Kennedy made the announcement late Wednesday with a short but sweet tweet : I am now in the UFC...
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Nate Marqaurdt Officially Moves to UFC, Goes 'Back to the Drawing Board'
Nate Marquardt , who it was announced on Wednesday will officially move to the UFC , is taking Saturday's loss with good humor, but at the same time, he's expressing frustration ...
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UFC Bantamweight Urijah Faber Lights Up Daytime Television on 'The Doctors'
Urijah Faber was a guest on an episode of The Doctors this week. That's a daytime television show airing daily around the country. Check local listings...
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John Dodson Wants Fight of the Night Bonus at UFC on Fox 6
John Dodson is set to challenge UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson at UFC on Fox 6 , scheduled for Jan. 26. But he wants to leave Chicago with more than the belt. He wants a little extra spending money too...
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Demetrious Johnson Keeping It Simple in Advance of 1st Title Defense
Spotlight? What spotlight? If Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson is feeling the glare, he sure isn't letting it show...
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Lightweight Prospect Kurt Holobaugh UFC-Bound Despite Loss at Strikeforce
Kurt Holobaugh may have suffered his first professional defeat Saturday night, but apparently it wasn't enough to dampen the UFC's enthusiasm for the lightweight prospect. MMAjunkie ...
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Nate Marquardt, Tarec Saffiedine and the 10 Most Brutal Leg-Kick Performances
There's nothing else quite like one MMA fighter beating another fighter by way of leg kick. It's not glamorous. But it's visceral. You are "chopping him down." When it's effective, you see the damage just like you'd see a broken nose or a facial cut...
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Michael Bisping Trained for Belfort with Alexander Shlemenko, Lorenz Larkin
In preparation for his collision with Vitor Belfort Saturday night at UFC on FX 7 , Michael Bisping scoured the combat sports landscape to find sparring partners who could mimic Belfort 's quick-fisted southpaw style...
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Ronda Rousey: Georges St-Pierre "Not the Kind of Fighter I Like Watching"
Ronda Rousey isn't letting Georges St-Pierre out of her sights just yet. The first woman to ever hold a UFC belt took aim at the welterweight champ in a recent interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal ...
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The 25 Most Dangerous Fighters in MMA History
Maybe it was just Nate Marquardt's leg , but something this weekend got me thinking about the most dangerous fighters in MMA history. Dangerous can mean different things, I suppose...
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Grades for All Main-Card Fighters from Strikeforce's Final Card
The poetry's been read, the bubbly toasted, the blood spilled. Strikeforce is no more. The promotion closed its doors Saturday night following a card that effectively boiled all the promotion's good and bad down into one bite-sized history lesson...
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Top 25 MMA Prospects for 2013
We've counted down the best fights, best fighters, best events, best promotions, best tweets, best concessions and best action figures of 2012. Time for 2013. Plenty to look forward to this year in MMA , as always...
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Strikeforce's Final Event: B/R MMA Staff Predictions for Showtime Card
If you have cable, you can watch the last Strikeforce card for free , this Saturday on Showtime. Not only is that an important subheadline for the event, it's also a fitting farewell...
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The 10 Most Overlooked Fighters in MMA
Right now, the MMA discourse is decidedly star-centric. Cain Velasquez just beat Junior dos Santos to regain the heavyweight strap. Georges St-Pierre recently returned and is gearing up for his grudge match with bad boy Nick Diaz...
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Eddie Alvarez UFC Offer Included Pay-Per-View Share, Commentary Opportunities
The UFC would plan to give Eddie Alvarez an immediate title shot and a cut of the proceeds whenever he fights on pay-per-view, according to court documents...
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The Worst UFC Robberies of 2012
Bad judging in MMA is a little like cutmen, Bob Sapp or booing flyweights: Good or bad, it's part of the milieu. It's woven into the fabric. So is bad refereeing, for that matter...
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The Most Irritating Fighters in MMA Today
At the turn of the 20th century, baseball was still a bit of an unsettled frontier. It attracted men who couldn't fit in with civilized society and weren't deterred by the ballplayer's transient, unstable lifestyle...
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Dan Severn Retired: Top 10 Moments from "The Beast's" Career
Long before "Beast Mode," there was "The Beast." In fact, Dan "The Beast" Severn predates a lot of things. Motor cars, for example. The unified rules. Modest shorts...
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Showtime's Stephen Espinoza: Showtime Still Interested in MMA
Stephen Espinoza, the vice president and general manager of Showtime Sports, believes the premium cable network may continue to have some relationship with mixed martial arts even after it airs the final Strikeforce event Saturday night...
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Eddie Alvarez: Bellator Did Not Match UFC's Offer and Is Now Suing Me
Coveted MMA free agent Eddie Alvarez said Bellator did not offer a fair match to the UFC's contract offer and is now actually suing the lightweight fighter...
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Final Strikeforce Card: Ed Herman Says Ronaldo Souza Overconfident on the Feet
UFC middleweight Ed Herman believes opponent Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza will have a hard time making hay in the standup phase of their fight Saturday night at the final event for the Strikeforce promotion...
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Strikeforce Welterweight Jordan Mein Headed to UFC, Faces Dan Miller at UFC 158
And the exodus continues. As Strikeforce prepares to draw down the curtain after its Jan. 12 event, new UFC fight announcements and fighter entrances are coming in bunches...
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Top MMA Sleeper Fights for First Quarter of 2013
In this first quarter of 2013, some of the higher-profile matchups—Ronda Rousey vs. Liz Carmouche and Alistair Overeem vs. Antonio Silva come to mind—are far from universal in terms of their sizzle in the fan and media communities...
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Joe Lauzon Not Interested in Taking Beatings for Bonuses
Joe Lauzon is glad you liked the fight. He really is. However, if winning fan appeal and UFC bonus money means taking a beating like the one he took against Jim Miller at UFC 155, you can have it...
