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Couture: GSP Moving to Wrestling Overblown

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The Las Vegas Sun has a great short clip featuring Randy Couture where he shares part of the recent conversation he had with UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre regarding his rumored move to Olympic Wrestling. Payout Perspective: In recent days the GSP-wrestling talk has really been heating up in Canada. The feeling is that GSP […]

Faber the WEC’s Biggest Asset

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Dave Meltzer of Yahoo! Sports talks about what makes Urijah Faber such a valuable asset for the WEC in the wake of his contenders bout with Raphael Assuncao at WEC 46 on Sunday. Big matches aren’t unfamiliar territory for Faber, who held the title for two years and eight months before losing it in an […]

UFC 112 Could be a Monster

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The fight card for UFC 112, to be held in Abu Dhabi on April 10th, is slowly taking shape and looks to be an early candidate for event of the year if rumors are true. Matt Hughes and Renzo Gracie have long been penciled for the event, but now it seems as though both Anderson […]

The Injury Story of UFC 108

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Dave Meltzer of Yahoo! Sports does a good job of chronicling the injuries that have made UFC 108 “the cursed” show of 2009. Never before has a card started with so much promise and fallen so quickly. Back in September, UFC 108 looked to be a card with the unique problem of having too many […]

Hardy Could Talk UFC 111 Into Must-See Territory

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Dan Hardy fired this salvo in the direction of Georges St-Pierre earlier this week at a press conference promoting the event, and expect the frequency of these to only increase as we approach March 27th: (Video courtesy of MMA Fanhouse) Payout Perspective: There are three things that will draw people to a title fight: 1.) The […]