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Renan Barao’s impressive submission win over Brad Pickett at UFC 138 makes him the favorite leading into a bout this Saturday with Scott Jorgensen.

Coupled with the stellar record he holds in professional competition, the Brazilian is the man to beat in the eyes of most.

But Jorgensen is a gambler in the cage, and the only sure bet he makes is that nothing is ever certain when it comes to fighting.

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Josh Koscheck was a wrestler to root for when Mike Pierce started watching the first season of “The Ultimate Fighter.”

But Pierce also couldn’t ignore the fact that Koscheck acted like a jerk and a bully on the show.

Now, Pierce is the latest welterweight to take it upon himself to teach the bully a lesson when he fights the onetime welterweight challenger on Saturday at UFC 143.

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CHICAGO – Rashad Evans is ready to shed a tag he’s worn for the past two years – that of a No. 1 contender.

Following Saturday’s UFC on FOX 2 main-event win over fellow light-heavyweight contender Phil Davis, the groundwork’s been laid for an April 145 title fight with champ and bitter rival Jon Jones.

“I’m ready to fight in April,” Evans said. “I’m excited to finally get the opportunity to fight Jon and give fans the fight they want to see.”

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Cub Swanson invites George Roop to share in his misery.

The two added a Twitter beef to an upcoming meeting at UFC on FOX 2, and now there’s bad blood mixed with an otherwise normal fight.

“At this point, I’m 100 percent focused on smashing this kid’s face in,” Swanson told MMAjunkie.com Radio.

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This weekend’s UFC on FOX 2 event could set up a title fight at April’s UFC 145 event in Atlanta.

Top contenders Phil Davis and Rashad Evans headline Saturday’s FOX-televised event, and a shot at UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones is on the line (for Evans, anyway).

And according to Jones, he could be ready to go for the newly announced UFC 145 event.

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With barker extraordinaire Chael Sonnen largely electing to pass on any
pre-fight trashtalk for next week’s UFC on FOX 2 event, someone had to
take the reigns of Friday’s media call.

Rashad Evans and Phil Davis did exactly that.

The former light heavyweight champ, who through most of the call had
been rather subdued, decided it was time to spice things up a bit and
launched into a verbal tirade that called into question opponent Phil
Davis’ mentality as fighter as well as calling him a “boy” unready for
his time in the spotlight.

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Kendall Grove said he was a wimpy, overweight high-schooler when Ikuhisa Minowa was bounding around the ring in tight pants.

But he’s grown up now, and in more ways than one. He’s raising his own future high-schooler now, and he’s trying in earnest to rebuild his career.

“I was trying to run a gym out here in Hawaii on top of managing a professional career in MMA, but that’s just me being a [expletive] and making excuses,” Grove told MMAjunkie.com Radio. “But now I don’t have those excuses, and the sky’s the limit, I guess.”

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Melvin Guillard is accused of overconfidence like Georges St-Pierre is of playing it safe.

Neither have much say in the matter. Guilty or not, these are traits now woven into their fighting characters. It’s nearly impossible to shake them before the MMA public.

Rebounding from one of the biggest setbacks of his professional career, a fired-up Guillard said he’s putting his head down and moving past judgements as he approaches a fight with Jim Miller at UFC on FX 1.

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Jose Aldo Jr. knows an impressive win at UFC 142 will make him a superstar in his homeland.

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RIO DE JANEIRO – Talk to UFC middleweight Rousimar Palhares in person, and you’re certain to find a sincere, humble man of
simple needs and great faith.

Watch him in the octagon, and you might think he’s a madman.

But after a series of odd occurrences in past four UFC appearances,
Palhares is approaching things in a different way. As his manager, Alex
Davis, first told MMAjunkie.com, Palhares is
training his mind in addition to his body and now has something to prove
at Saturday’s UFC 142 event.

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