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

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    Ok, so it seems Swick vs. Hardy is a go, and the winner will face GSP in February/March.

    BIG, BIG opportunity for Dan Hardy. Big jump in competition too, though.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Stun Gun is injured. So there is no issue.
     
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    really? Dan Hardy can get a shot at the title if he beats Swick? He's good but I didn't even think he could beat Stun gun.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Wandy vs. Sexyama rumoured for 108.
     
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    Mamba The King is Back Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Uh..fun fight?
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Joe Lauzon vs. Sam Stout @ UFC 108
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    A proposed welterweight bout between DaMarques Johnson & Peter Sobotta at UFC 105 has been "scrapped".
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Johnson will fight Edgar Garcia at UFC 107 instead. Dunno what happened with Sobotta.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Kimbo will fight on the TUF 10 Finale, probably.
     
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    roy nelson part deux?

    you got to be kiddin' me. lets say hardy somehow stuns swick, he gets a shot at gsp?! gsp will murder hardy AND.. whats left for GSP? jon fitch? anthony johnson?!
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Pretty much.
     
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    ^GSP then will have to turn his attention or his sights to middleweight.. he pretty much cleared the welterweight division.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    There is still competition for him--Swick, Johnson, Condit, rematches with Fitch, Koscheck, etc..

    I think GSP wants to establish himself as the best WW ever. Hughes had seven title defenses. So far GSP is at three.

    The competition for him at middleweight, outside of Silva, isn't exactly glamorous.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    Aurelio, Wilson, Franca, and The N-Sane 1 have been released, reportedly.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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

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    Newcomer Rodney Wallace may face Brian Stann at the TUF 10 Finale.
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    According to Tito Ortiz, Mark Coleman has pulled out of their scheduled fight at UFC 106.

    This would be the second time in four scheduled fights Coleman has withdrawn (originally scheduled to face Lesnar before dropping down to fight Shogun).
     
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    I forgot Coleman was schedule to fight Lesnar. Thank God he didn't. I think he'd be dead.
     
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    Confirmed- Coleman has a tear and will not fight Ortiz.
     
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    Kimbo said he'd fight Ortiz! LOL!

    The dude with no ground game wants to fight the guy with only a ground game. That is funny.
     

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