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With the exception of injuries or an act of God, Wanderlei Silva and Vitor Belfort will fight after Belfort meets Anthony Johnson on Saturday at UFC 142.

How much does Silva want to fight Belfort?

“A lot,” he told MMAjunkie.com during open workouts for the pay-per-view event, which takes place at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro. “This is one fight I really, really want to do before I retire. I’m so happy for a fight with this guy in Brazil.”

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With the departure of Brock Lesnar, another fighter will have to step up – and soon – to fill in the void.

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LAS VEGAS – Dana White never publicly discusses his fight predictions,
but post-UFC 141, the UFC president admitted he thought Brock Lesnar was going to walk away victorious over Alistair
Overeem.

But when that didn’t happen, White said he wasn’t surprised Lesnar decided to walk away from the sport.

Check out the embedded video to hear White’s thoughts on Lesnar’s
decision, a potential Lesnar return to professional
wrestling, as well as impressions of some of the night’s other winners.

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UFC president Dana White said he had no idea former champion Brock Lesnar was planning on retiring.

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LAS VEGAS – Alistair Overeem is next in line for a UFC heavyweight title shot, and he ended a career to get it.

In his official UFC debut, the recent Strikeforce titleholder earned a first-round TKO victory over Brock Lesnar, an ex-champ who announced his MMA retirement following the loss.

The fight headlined the pay-per-view main card of UFC 141 and followed
prelims on Facebook and Spike TV. It took place at MGM Grand Garden
Arena in Las Vegas.

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It was news to Krzysztof Soszynski that he was retired from fighting.

Not that he hadn’t previously considered it – but that he had announced it to the world on Monday evening.

“I’m sitting down surfing the net, and I come across Dana White’s video blog,” Soszynski told MMAjunkie.com. “I pop it on because I’m always a fan of those things, and next thing you know, there I am.”

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TORONTO – Former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz may finally be ready to call it quits.

On the eve of his UFC 140 matchup with fellow longtime vet Antonio
Rogerio Nogueira, Ortiz believes he’s finally -
thankfully – healthy, but that’s precisely the point.

With kids at home that need a father, Ortiz remembers what it was like
to have absentee parents. And with all that fighting has given to him
over the years, Ortiz refuses to let the sport take away future quality
time with his family.

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On August 31, 2002 he took a unanimous decision over Mac Danzig. Almost 10 years later, Kurt Pellegrino called it a career in front of a hometown crowd in a loss to Patricky “Pitbull” Freire at Bellator 59 in Atlantic City, N.J.

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Cung Le has other things going on in his life.

He is a fighter first, of course. But he is also a successful actor that’s growing more successful by the year.

When he avenged his sole MMA loss to Scott Smith in June 2010 under the Strikeforce banner, he thought he might hang it up. But when Strikeforce was purchased by UFC parent company Zuffa LLC, his plans changed.

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After suffering a hard-fought third-round TKO loss to Roy Nelson this past Saturday night, UFC heavyweight…

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