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      Friday MMA Review 5/8

      May 8, 2009 /

      Here’s a weekly rundown of MMA content from Ben Goldstein of CagePotato.com:

      – Gina Carano (above photo) looks pretty hot as a pin-up girl.

      – Toby Imada pulled off the most epic submission in MMA history against Jorge Masvidal at last weekend’s Bellator event.

      – Hatsu Hioki, Marlon Sandro, Michihiro Omigawa, and Masanori Kanehara advanced to the semi-finals of Sengoku’s featherweight grand prix.

      – Team U.S. and Team U.K. split a pair of quarterfinal fights, while a bounty offered for knocked-out teeth hilariously backfired on Wednesday’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter. Plus, will Rampage Jackson return for season 10?

      – With Houston Alexander’s hand injury, UFC 98 becomes the second-most-cursed card in UFC history. Nevertheless, the show must go on, and Matt Serra has taken over video-blogging duties to promote it.

      – Two new people will be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame the day before UFC 100 in July. The smart money’s on Charles “Mask” Lewis and Chuck Liddell.

      – Speaking of UFC 100, a new viral effort has been launched to get the crowd to chant “Fedor!” immediately following the Brock Lesnar/Frank Mir main event, pretty much just to screw with Dana White.

      – Despite getting KTFO’d, Benji Radach is appealing his April 11th Strikeforce loss to Scott Smith.

      – Your chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to UFC 98 from CagePotato.com ends on Monday!

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      Friday MMA Review 5/1

      May 1, 2009 /

      Here’s a weekly rundown of MMA content from Ben Goldstein of CagePotato.com:

      – Congenital amputee Kyle Maynard’s MMA debut went about as well as we thought it would.

      – Clearly bored with the garbage-ass challengers he’s been getting in the UFC’s middleweight division, 185-pound king Anderson Silva will go up to light-heavyweight again to face Forrest Griffin at UFC 101 in August. Meanwhile, Nate Marquardt and Demian Maia will be facing off to determine who really deserves the next middleweight title shot.

      – Gina Carano looked hot at Kevin Randleman’s wedding.

      – Despite some intense infighting, Team U.S. was able to put its first victory on the board on the last episode of The Ultimate Fighter, while coach Michael Bisping vanished into thin air.

      – Japanese promotion DREAM is putting together the greatest MMA freak show in history with their “World Superman Championship,” which will feature steroid-snitch Jose Canseco, pituitary case Hong Man Choi, Bob Sapp, and five more warriors, hopefully fighting to the death.

      – Speaking of freak shows, Fedor Emelianenko used his 70-pound weight advantage to toss around Shinya Aoki in a grappling exhibition at the last M-1 Challenge event.

      – Less than two months after Nick Diaz and Scott Smith scored victories at “Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Diaz,” the two will be fighting each other at “Strikeforce: Lawler vs. Shields.”

      – Sign of the apocalypse #783: Kung Fu Football.

      – Kim Couture’s wife pulled out of her upcoming fight against Miesha Tate, and Tate responded by telling everyone that Kim and The Natural are getting a divorce. Real classy.

      – By forcibly retiring Chuck Liddell, is Dana White looking out for his friend’s health or his company’s wallet? Little from column A, little from column B?

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      Friday MMA Review 4/24

      April 24, 2009 /

      Here’s a weekly rundown of MMA content from Ben Goldstein of CagePotato.com:

      – Chuck Liddell stepped into the cage (and got knocked out) for the last time, while Anderson Silva and Thales Leites put on one of the most boring title fights in UFC history at UFC 97 last Saturday. Regarding the Silva/Leites scrap, UFC prez Dana White said “I’ve never been embarrassed of a UFC fight like I was tonight,” while Silva’s manager tried to do damage control.

      – The Iceman may be retired from the fight game, but it seems like his acting career is taking off. Meanwhile, Andrei Arlovski is going to appear in the next Jean-Claude Van Damme joint.

      – Nick Osipczak put the Brits up 1-0 with his crushing head-kick knockout of Mark Miller on Wednesday’s episode of “The Ultimate Fighter.”

      – Gina Carano does it for love, not money. Yeah, right.

      – Pro wrestler-turned-fighter Bobby Lashley will be colliding with cartoonish brawler Bob Sapp in a June pay-per-view event that will also feature Affliction’s vice-president actually fighting on the card.

      – Congenital amputee Kyle Maynard makes his MMA debut tomorrow night. But will it be a triumph or an ill-advised freak show?

      – Speaking of freak shows, lightweight grappling-genius Shinya Aoki and world’s-best-heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko will be tangling in a “special sparring exhibition” next week in Tokyo. Ah, what’s a 70-pound weight-difference between friends?

      – Enter our “Underground Heroes” giveaway and win a pair of tickets to UFC 98! And if you’re going to the May 23rd event, be sure to check out our fan’s guide to Las Vegas.

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      Friday MMA Review 4/17

      April 17, 2009 /

      Here’s a weekly rundown of MMA content from Ben Goldstein of CagePotato.com:

      – The young angry lion took out the old braces-wearing lion at Strikeforce’s kickass “Shamrock vs. Diaz” event. In the aftermath, Cristiane “Cris Cyborg” Santos lost some respect and Nick Diaz thinks he’s ready to box Roy Jones Jr.

      – Junie Browning’s even dumber and drunker brother Rob left The Ultimate Fighter as quickly as he arrived. And everyone rejoiced.

      – Speaking of MMA on TV, “Bully Beatdown” may be as fake as “The Hills.”

      – Tickets to the UFC’s historic 100th show sold out in a matter of hours. Scalped tickets are going for up to $24,000. Seriously.

      – Sorry Chuck, but if your biggest problem is all the porn stars trying to party with you to advance their own careers, you don’t have that many problems.

      – Bellator Fighting Championships: The most interesting MMA league that nobody seems to care about.

      – Tune in to CagePotato.com tomorrow night starting at 10 p.m. ET for live results of UFC 97: Redemption. Will Mauricio “Shogun” Rua show up in shape for his do-or-die fight against Chuck Liddell? Does Thales Leites have a chance in hell of stealing the middleweight belt from Anderson Silva? Are there any other fights on this card genuinely worth getting exciting about?

      – Also, if you want to win a DVD of “Never Surrender” (starring BJ Penn, Georges St. Pierre, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, and Anderson Silva), enter our latest caption contest!

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      Friday MMA Review 4/10

      April 10, 2009 /

      Here’s a weekly rundown of MMA content from Ben Goldstein of CagePotato.com:

      – Last weekend’s action was highlighted by Hayato Sakurai crushing Shinya Aoki at DREAM 8 and Miguel Torres putting in yet another legendary performance at WEC 40.

      – Despite some fainting and a nasty herpes outbreak, the Team USA elimination round went down on The Ultimate Fighter. Lightweight castmember Santino Defranco gave us some insight on Dana White’s intimidating presence as well as his back-from-the-grave victory over Waylon Lowe.

      – We gawked at sexy ring girls Laura Celeste and Maysa Quy.

      – Brett Rogers is still kinda pissed off at Kimbo Slice, while Frank Shamrock thinks Nick Diaz has “social and emotional issues” and “a frayed mind.”

      – Nick Diaz may not have been the best student in school, but at least he’s smart enough to cheat a drug test.

      – For the first time in history, Brazilian dance-fighting worked in a real MMA match.

      – July’s UFC 100 card is looking historically stacked.

      – Japanese featherweight wrecking machine Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto will finally return to competition at DREAM’s next event.

      – Head over to CagePotato.com tomorrow night as we liveblog the Showtime broadcast of “Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Diaz,” beginning at 10 p.m. ET. If you plan on throwing some money on the fights, read this first, and submit your final predictions for the main card in our pick ’em contest to win a bunch of crap from No Fear!

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