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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Affliction 3 expected to happen in July, with Fedor/Josh Barnett still the likely main event.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Gilbert Melendez and Josh Thompson may rematch at the Strikeforce show.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Bryan Bowles is injured and unable to face Miguel Torres at UFC 40.

    Takeya Mizugaki will take his place. Mizugaki is a good fighter but probably not a big threat to Torres.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    There is an insane rumour that Strikeforce is trying to sign Fabricio Werdum to fight Kevin Ferguson. That's right, Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson.
     
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    Werdum can eat Kimbo Slice alive with one arm tied behind his back......That has to be some sort of joke...or theyre trying to put Kimbo out of the sport for good.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    [video=youtube;Arob_F8T1V4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arob_F8T1V4&eurl=http://mmamania.com/"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arob_F8T1V4[/video]
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Dream.8 Welterweight Grand Prix 2009 Opening Round updated. Mark Hunt, Zelg Galesic, GZ Cavalcante expected to compete on the card, and the WW participants are getting named. Not all are confirmed, some are just rumoured.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    WEC 40 card finalized.

    Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Diaz card almost finalized, three fighters yet to be announced, undercard mostly filled out.
     
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    WEC 41: Brown vs. Faber II is expected to be a PPV event in June (Sacramento).

    Early word has the PPV going for $39.99.
     
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    Which means $49.99 for the HD feed.
     
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    Sengoku featherweight grand prix opening round matches announced.
     
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    Aleksandar Emelianenko won't be fighting for WVR. He's been denied a license to fight in Japan. You know he's got to have some serious health issues if they're saying no.
    And yet he's scheduled to fight an MMA match soon in Russia....gawd.
     
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    After being rebuffed/rebutted by Gina Carano (see what I did there?), Strikeforce has found Hitomi Akano to fight Chris Cyborg.
     
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    Sengoku: 8th Battle scheduled for May 2nd.
     
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    DREAM does it again with another amazing Poster

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    DREAM's posters are so bad ass.
     
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    Kevin Randalman has signed with Strikeforce.
     
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    Strikeforce announced Jake Shields will fight Robbie Lawler in a 182lb catchweight bout headlining a card in May.
     
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    That's cause they don't have anyone for Jake to fight at 170 that he won't run over.
     
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    Shields vs. Riggs has been pulled to make room for this fight, though I don't know why, seeing as how Lawler is still fighting on the card.
     

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