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  Tough gloves and let's keep it "clean."   Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 265-pound champion Cain Velasquez will try to get back on his heavyweight horse against Frank Mir at the upcoming UFC 146 event on May 26, 2012 at the MGM Grand Garden Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.   The "Sin City" line-up is currently in jeopardy after Alistair Overeem flunked ...
  Lesson learned.   Top mixed martial arts (MMA) trainer Greg Jackson, who saw one of his biggest stars walk away from his famed gym in Albuquerque, New Mexico, understands that moving forward, teammates may eventually fight teammates.   But he doesn't have to be a part of it.   By "stepping out of it," he can help prevent a major internal rift, like th...
  Of all the crazy fights that happened last night (Feb. 25, 2012) at UFC 144 in Saitama, Japan, only one of them had Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) commentator Joe Rogan marking out like a maniac, and that was the Middleweight match up between Tim Boetsch and Yushin Okami.   Okami was coming off a failed attempt at the title and he looked sharp early on, crushing Boet...
  The Lightweight belt was barely warm around Ben Henderson’s waist after he defeated Frankie Edgar at UFC 144 last night (Feb. 25, 2012) in Saitama, Japan, before the question presented itself:   "Who’s got next?"   Timing is everything in deciding who gets the next title shot, and in the case of Anthony Pettis, his couldn’t have been better. An...
  Former K-1 Grand Prix kickboxing champion and Pride FC veteran, Mark Hunt, wasn't supposed to be fighting in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).   After losing five consecutive fights in PRIDE and DREAM to the likes of Josh Barnett, Fedor Emelianenko, Alistair Overeem, Melvin Manhoef and Gegard Mousasi, UFC President Dana White was positive he did not want, or need, ...