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NORFOLK, Va. — At M-1 Challenge 24, Russians ruled much of the night, but in the main event, it was Jose Figueroa who was able to placate an anxious crowd at the Ted Constant Convocation Center with his victory over Artiom Damkovsky to claim the promotion’s lightweight title.

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Phil Davis has a pretty funny history when it comes to the questions he’s asked at post fight press conferences, but he figures to be more deserving of some of them after UFC Fight Night 24.
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Magomed “White Wolf” Sultanakhmedov isn’t a belt collector, but he’d be more than happy to take home the M-1 middleweight championship for beating Tyson Jeffries at Friday’s M-1 Challenge on Showtime. Read More >>

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Sweden’s Superior Challenge has upped its tagline from “Nordic’s biggest MMA event” to “Europe’s biggest MMA event,” as the promotion has unveiled plans for its seventh iteration, “Rise of the Champions,” to take place at Stockholm’s Hovet arena.

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Dan Henderson isn’t concerned too much about the fact that there is a title on the line in his fight against Rafael Feijao this weekend. He’s more focused on just fighting the best, and the best usually have titles.  Read More >>

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Guram Gugenishvili had to fight through a scare from challenger Maxim Grishin, but the Georgian prevailed and retained his M-1 Challenge heavyweight crown at Saturday’s M-1 Challenge 23

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SAN JOSE, Calif. – No titles changed hands in Strikeforce’s first championship doubleheader of 2011.

In the organization’s first major show of the year, Strikeforce
welterweight champion survived very live underdog Evangelista “Cyborg”
Santos and ultimately scored a second-round submission victory.

The bout headlined Saturday’s “Strikeforce: Cyborg vs. Santos” event at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. The event aired on Showtime.

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Strikeforce and Showtime roll out a championship doubleheader tonight with “Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Cyborg.”

Welterweight champion Nick Diaz takes on hard-hitting Evangelista “Cyborg” Santos, and middleweight titleholder Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza meets veteran Robbie Lawler in the co-headliners.

In our latest MMAjunkie.com/”Inside MMA” poll, we wanted to know which titles will change hands at the event.

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At 48 years of age, Herschel Walker has no delusions on his future in mixed martial arts.

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A showdown between WEC and UFC champions is on the horizon.

The winner of an upcoming WEC title fight between champion Ben Henderson
and challenger Anthony Pettis will meet the winner of an upcoming UFC
title fight between champion Frankie Edgar and challenger Gray Maynard.

The news was shared today by UFC president Dana White on the heels of an
announcement that the UFC is folding the WEC into its promotion in
January 2011, though he did not provide a timeline for the meeting
between the two promotions’ lightweight champions.

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