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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – When it comes to pre-fight mean-mugging, bantamweight
Mike Easton is among the pound-for-pound best in the sport.

And while “The Hulk” is comfortable chalking up his motivational rage to
a clear case of Napoleon complex, the 5-foot-6 scrapper doesn’t let it
control him at all times.

Take for instance, his rivalry with Jared Papazian, which resulted in what
what many think should have been UFC on FX 1′s “Fight of the Night.”
Now that it’s over, Easton said the respect can begin.

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LAS VEGAS – For Strikeforce champions, it’s becoming an increasingly common practice: Win a fight, call out the UFC roster.

And so it was for Strikeforce middleweight champ Luke Rockhold, who moments after scoring a first-round TKO over Keith
Jardine at Saturday’s “Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Jardine” event
challenged the UFC’s best fighters to a showdown.

But with the adrenaline worn off and Rockhold under scrutiny from the
media at the evening’s post-event press conference, the champ admitted
there are still a few worthy challenges in his current promotion.

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M-1 Challenge 30 earned an average of 148,000 viewers for its Saturday night broadcast on Showtime, Sherdog.com confirmed Tuesday with an industry source.

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This past Friday’s M-1 Challenge 30 event saw a slight dip in the size
of its Showtime audience, as the event drew a 0.4 household rating and
a series-low 148,000 viewers.

MMAjunkie.com today confirmed the figures with an industry source.

Featuring an M-1 Global welterweight title fight, M-1 Challenge 30 took
place Dec. 9 at The Hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa
Mesa, Calif.

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Yasubey Enomoto slapped on a fight-ending guillotine choke in the final minute of his five-round title fight and took the M-1 Challenge welterweight title from Shamil Zavurov.

The rematch headlined Friday’s M-1 Challenge 30 event.

The event took place at The Hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, Calif., and the night’s main card aired on Showtime.

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All fighters competing at tonight’s Showtime-televised M-1 Challenge 30 event successfully made weight for the show.

The weigh-ins took place Thursday.

Tonight’s event, which features a welterweight title fight between champion Shamil Zavurov and challenger Yasubey Enomoto, takes place at The Hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, Calif.

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On Thursday, on the eve of his title fight and rematch with M-1 welterweight champ Shamil Zavurov, Yasubey Enomoto was as cool as a naked Eskimo sitting on a block of ice eating a Popsicle.

After all, in the days before a fight, his nerves aren’t easily rattled.

But get the Swiss fighter to the arena on fight night, as officials will do tonight for the Showtime-televised M-1 Challenge 30 headliner, and the switch is thrown.

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TORONTO – We’ve got it all wrong, according to Jon Jones.

We’re looking for arguments, points of debate, and statistics to support
reasons why this contender or that contender is more or less of a
challenge to the UFC light-heavyweight champion. In short, we’re looking for some cracks in his armor. Any cracks. Something to report, debate to stir.

Jones says we’re looking at the wrong things. Jones is not fighting others, but fighting himself.

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M-1 Global has found a replacement opponent for highly touted Russian prospect Alexander Sarnavskiy, as the undefeated lightweight now meets Sergio Cortez at M-1 Challenge 30.

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Alexander Sarnavskiy will remain on Friday’s Showtime-televised M-1 Challenge 30 event after all.

As MMAjunkie.com reported on Wednesday, Sarnavskiy’s original opponent, Francisco Drinaldo, suffered an undisclosed injury and was forced off the card.

Now, officials have announced that fellow lightweight Sergio Cortez has taken his spot on short notice.

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