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Another week of fights, another controversial decision.

While this holiday week’s MMA schedule was relatively tame in comparison
to the rest of an extremely busy month, Bellator Fighting Championships
did on Saturday night host its final season-five event, Marcin Held was
awarded a hotly contested split-decision win on the evening’s main
card.

Our readers focused on a number of topics in this week’s edition of The
Sunday Junkie. But the winner of our weekly reader-feedback feature,
Maryland’s Bruce Hales, contends there should be no question as to why
Held was given the win.

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Nov. 19, 2011, could be remembered as the greatest night in MMA history
following a UFC 139 barnburner between Dan Henderson and Mauricio
“Shogun” Rua, as well as Bellator 58′s showstopper between Michael
Chandler and Eddie Alvarez.

Both fights understandably were hot topics in this week’s edition of The Sunday Junkie, our weekly reader-feedback feature.

In fact, this week’s winner of The Sunday Junkie, California reader “Damian S.,” wants to know if another victory should earn Dan Henderson consideration as the great fighter in MMA history.

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Everyone’s a critic, and that’s no clearer than after Saturday’s landmark UFC on FOX event.

With hindsight its usual 20/20, MMA fans weighed on everything from FOX’s presentation to Dana White’s post-fight analysis to a 64-second main event to a barnburner title eliminator between Ben Henderson and Clay Guida.

But this week’s winner of The Sunday Junkie, New York’s “Mark B.,” explains why straightforward and honest promoting is the way to go with our new champ: everyman Junior Dos Santos.

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Weigh-ins for this month’s “UFC 139: Shogun vs. Henderson” event take place Friday, Nov.

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Weigh-ins for this month’s “UFC 139: Shogun vs. Henderson” event take place Friday, Nov. 18, at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif.

The same venue hosts the following night’s pay-per-view event, which
features a five-round light heavyweight contest between former UFC and
PRIDE champions Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Dan Henderson.

Additionally, perennial welterweight contender Josh Koscheck hosts a
special Q&A session for UFC Fight Club members prior to the
weigh-ins.

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The upcoming UFC on FOX 1 card, ProElite’s sophomore effort, the recently announced Georges St-Pierre vs. Nick Diaz title fight and B.J. Penn’s uncertain future are all topics in this week’s edition of The Sunday Junkie.

But this weekend’s under-the-radar UFC 138 event also made an impact in our weekly reader-feedback feature.

This week’s winner, New York’s Brett “brettiexedge” Falcetti, weighs in one of the show’s more controversial topics: Chris Leben’s clearance to continue after admitting he had trouble seeing.

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FOX will use its many assets for an ambitious day of programming geared around next week’s “UFC on FOX…

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FOX will use its many assets for an ambitious day of programming geared around next week’s “UFC on FOX 1: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos” event.

The Nov. 12 event takes place at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., with a championship main event between heavyweight titleholder Cain Velasquez and Junior Dos Santos.

FOX-owned FUEL TV, FOX Deportes and FOX Sports Radio also plan event-related programming.

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The Ultimate Fighting Championship is heading outdoors – well, for weigh-ins at least.

The official weigh-in ceremony for next week’s historic UFC on FOX 1
event will take place at California’s iconic Santa Monica Pier.

The ceremony, which sees UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez and top
contender Junior Dos Santos lead a contingent of 20 fighters to the
scale, begins at 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT local time). The festivities are
free and open to the public.

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Bellator Fighting Championships’ fifth-season middleweight finalists will collide one week sooner than expected, as Alexander Shlemenko and Vitor Vianna have been assigned to Bellator 57 on Nov. 12.

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