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The UFC’s decision to scrap Carlos Condit’s promised title shot to capitalize on the buzz of Georges St-Pierre vs. Nick Diaz obviously struck a nerve with fans.

To some, it was genius. To others, it was a testament to all that is wrong with the sport.

Readers weight on on both sides of the argument in The Sunday Junkie, our weekly reader-feedback feature. And this week’s winner, New York’s Ryan Busuttil, argues that Diaz is getting rewarded for the same exact behavior that cost him his title shot in the first place.

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As a reminder, the UFC will makes its official FOX debut this Sunday, Oct. 30.

That’s when the UFC’s new network-television partner airs “UFC
Primetime,” a one-hour special that previews the organization’s first
UFC on FOX event, which is set for Nov. 12.

The special airs either immediately before or after the NFL on FOX game assigned to your given market that day.

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Consider it the calm before the storm.

With an upcoming onslaught of events from the UFC, Strikeforce and
Bellator Fighting Championships on the horizon, this past week was
relatively quiet on the news front, and our submissions to this week’s
edition of “The Sunday Junkie” looked at a number of items from the past
several weeks.

But this week’s winner of our weekly reader-feedback feature, Northern
Ireland’s Michael Audley, was inspired by Saturday night’s Bellator 55
event and says that fight promotion has an immediate need for change.

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Chael Sonnen. Anderson Silva. Jon Jones.

The three biggest newsmakers of this past weekend’s UFC 136 event and
surrounding festivities are still weighing heavy on the minds of MMA
fans, and many submission to this week’s edition of “The Sunday Junkie”
focused on some aspects of these competitors’ fighting relationship.

But this week’s winner of our weekly reader-feedback feature,
Canada’s Jordan Grenke, has no interest in seeing Silva face Sonnen for a
second time. In fact, he doesn’t want Silva to face anybody for a
second time.

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Noted MMA trainer Shawn Tompkins, who earlier this year passed away at
just 37 years old, will be remembered at an Oct. 28 celebration in Las
Vegas.

Longtime Team Tompkins fighters Sam Stout and Mark Hominick will be on hand, as will Tompkins’ former mentor, Bas Rutten.

“Shawn loved life, and this evening is an opportunity for the MMA
community to share those good memories and to keep his spirit alive,”
Stout, who is also Tompkins’ brother-in-law, stated in an official
release.

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Weigh-ins for this month’s “UFC 137: St-Pierre vs. Condit” event take
place Friday, Oct. 28, at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Events Center.

The same venue hosts the following night’s pay-per-view event, which
features a welterweight title fight between current champion Georges
St-Pierre and former WEC champ Carlos Condit.

Additionally, former heavyweight champion Frank Mir hosts a special
Q&A session for UFC Fight Club members prior to the weigh-ins.

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Whether it was the special prize (an autographed copy of “UFC Encyclopedia”) or the timing (the day after a spectacular UFC 136 event), this week’s edition of The Sunday Junkie received an avalanche of entries.

In our weekly reader-feedback feature, there was no shortage of potential topics.

This week’s winner is South Carolina reader “CmrnNxn,” who thinks UFC 136′s fight-night bonuses are proof they’ve been going to the wrong fighters.

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After returning from a near-year-long layoff and scoring an impressive victory over Jack Mason at this past weekend’s Cage Warriors 44 event, UFC vet Brian Foster is set for his next bout.

Foster fights in two weeks when he meets fellow UFC vet Laverne Clark at Capital City Cage Wars 7.

The fight takes place Oct. 15 at Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield, Ill.

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UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz’s latest title defense is in the books, and the titleholder was a popular topic in this week’s edition of The Sunday Junkie.

Cruz’s win over Demetrious Johnson and the rest of the UFC on Versus 6 card, including some heavily debated stoppages, were discussed from all angles in our weekly reader-feedback feature.

This week’s winner, Ohio’s Kevin “Finish Him” Durig, focused on Cruz’s performance and why he and other champs deserve credit they don’t always get.

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Premium cable channel Showtime will broadcast five fights from M-1 Challenge 27, an event topped by an M-1 Global heavyweight title rematch between unbeaten Ukrainian Guram Gugenishvili and American challenger Kenny Garner.

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