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It appears the official announcement about UFC fighters sharing space with American Idol, Family Guy and Sons of Anarchy may be less than 24 hours away. Read More >>

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Perhaps it’s the crafty veteran playing some mind games. Maybe he’s hoping he can make his opponent feel…

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Perhaps it’s the crafty veteran playing some mind games. Maybe he’s hoping he can make his opponent feel a little too confident for his own game.

Or perhaps Nam Phan is just honest to a fault.

Whatever the reason, the veteran featherweight admits Mike Brown, his opponent at this weekend’s UFC 133 event, simply is the better fighter when considering a variety of criterion.



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Ovince St. Preux is looking to a strong performance against Scott Carson at Strikeforce Challengers 17 on Friday night to launch him into the Strikeforce big show. Read More >>

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A welterweight bout between British fighter Mark Scanlon and former middleweight James Head has been added to October’s UFC 138 lineup.

Officials today announced the matchup.

UFC 138 takes place Nov. 5 at the 16,000-seat LG Arena at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England.



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After 15 years and 45 fights, Wanderlei Silva goals appear to be running at cross purposes.

On one hand, he wants to fight 10 more fights over five years. He doesn’t want to retire just yet. He’s clearly addicted to the rush brought by fighting under the lights.

On the other, he fights with a style that has taken a great toll on his body and left him staring up at those lights on more occasions that anyone would like.



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Pat Barry, Christian Morecraft and Nik Lentz received the longest
medical suspensions following this past weekend’s UFC on Versus 4 event,
netting 60 days each.

MMAjunkie.com recently requested and today received
the list of suspensions from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission.

UFC on Versus 4 took place June 26 at Pittsburgh’s CONSOL Energy Center.
Heavyweight striker Cheick Kongo secured a first-round knockout of
Barry in the evening’s main event.



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Jason Young, Shane Carwin and James Head received the longest medical suspensions following the recent UFC 131…

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Jason Young, Shane Carwin and James Head received the longest medical suspensions following the recent UFC 131 event.

MMAjunkie.com recently requested and today received the list of suspensions from the Vancouver Athletic Commission.

UFC 131 took place June 11 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Junior Dos Santos scored a unanimous-decision victory over Carwin in the night’s pay-per-view headliner.



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30-27.

It’s a score that signifies a shutout on judges’ scorecards, and it’s put the Vancouver Athletic Commission in the crosshairs of angry fans after this past Saturday’s UFC 131 event.

Three instances of that tally – delivered by two separate judges – have renewed feelings that the judging system is broken, and for the first time prompted the president of the world’s biggest fight promotion to challenge a commission’s authority.



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