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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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For three of the UFC’s rank and file, the bottom line rarely ends at “show” and “win.”

Sponsorships, performance bonuses, and discretionary bonuses help to
line the pockets of George Roop, Jacob Volkmann and Nam Phan.

They are not millionaires. But despite a wide disparity in pay with
their headliner counterparts, figures disclosed by the fighters painted
an upper-middle-class living.

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The UFC’s pay scale is a hot topic, but figuring it out is easier said than done.

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This past month, Ben Henderson got a taste of the UFC spotlight.

At the UFC’s debut event on network television, he felt the electricity running through the crowd for a UFC on FOX 1 championship headliner between Cain Velasquez and Junior Dos Santos.

But despite fighting in the night’s co-headliner, Henderson’s own fight with Clay Guida played a distant second fiddle. However, that won’t be the case at UFC 144.

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Vasyli LLC, a
leading global supplier of footwear and orthotics, has collaborated with
two-time UFC champion B.J. Penn and launched the new pro model
biomechanical flipflop.

VAS Brand and the technology help provide natural, affordable relief from common heel, leg and knee pain.

Reviewed and recommended by Penn,
the VAS prefabricated orthotics and line of VAS sandals reflect Penn’s
philosophy of optimum health from head to toe while keeping a stylish
look to the product.

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Can Luke Rockhold make it as an elite fighter? We’ll have a good idea come Saturday night.

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MMAWeekly.com sponsor BetDSI breaks down the betting line for Saturday night’s UFC 134 Rio main event pitting Anderson Silva against Yushin Okami. Read More >>

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With a record of 5-1 since exiting the Octagon, UFC veteran Josh Neer is fighting his way back into the spotlight. Read More >>

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Pat Healy is not an attractive opponent for the up-and-coming.

He’s got a tremendous number of fights on his resume, for one, and he’s beaten some big names before they were big. He’s lost to just as much to top-tier talent, but the ratio between his successes and failures is enough to give resume-builders pause.

Here’s the way managers probably pitch it: You’ll probably win, but it’s going to be a really, really tough fight.

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