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    There is good news for European MMA. Cage Warriors is back with Graham Boylan as its sole owner.
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    The scene where Vince Vaughn's character was talking about getting his money back needed an inset of Charles Nelson Reilly doing jazz hands and saying "Acting~!".
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    He ran though poor Mike Thomas Brown. Just steamrolled him on the ground. I actually thought MTB would give him trouble there. That wasn't the case at all.
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    As crazy it might sound, he actually reminds me of Aldo but without all the striking essentials to be him. Same body type and exact same stance. It's like Aldo if he decided he was going to be a jiu-jitsu player for the entirety of the fight.
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    I swear to God I thought Hacran was in his mid 20s until the Tale of the Tape came up. Maybe it's the matchups, but he hasn't done a ton in three years of being in the UFC. He went from being on top of everyone's prospect list to just being an average fighter doing very average things. However, you can see some of the skills that got people talking. For instance, when he got Makashvili on the ground, it looked like he was going to easily pass the guard and just go to town. Then, nothing happened. That's both weird and concerning.
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    Sherdog (Breen, Chris Nelson, Brian Knapp) and Junkie all gave Lyoto round 1. It was very close, but I thought Machida just barely got it. I think Romero got him numbers wise though. In my opinion, it was combination of the smaller Octagon, his age, and the fact that Romero just such an explosive athlete. Machida had to fight two tremendous athletes back-to-back, whom both plausibly could be UFC Middleweight champion at some point. We've all seen what Romero can do. I think Machida saw that as well coming into the fight. The point being that Romero saw how the beginning of the fight played out and wasn't very interested in trading rounds with Machida.
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    Well, Machida won the first round. I don't think it was his age as it was Romero eating his strikes and forcing him to fight a bit lackadaisical. He hit Romero with couple lefts that would have dropped a bunch of middleweights. Romero turned up the pressure and started landing shots as Machida was backing away. That forced Machida to abandon his kicks. The kicks set up the feints and punches. Machida thought he was going to land that one big clipping left that he just conceded Romero all the space in the cage. There was nothing to separate Machida and Romero. As a result, Romero bowled him over with that takedown and the rest is history.
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    MMAFighting.com ‏@MMAFighting 40s Romero said he wasn’t talking about gay marriage. He said he was talking about the American dream. Yeah, he is also upset Dusty Rhodes passed on. Me too.
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    Matt Erickson ‏@MMAjunkieMatt 1m Stay tuned ... I'll get to the bottom of this "no for gay Jesus" vs. "no forget Jesus" stuff. Either way, Jesus will be involved.
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    I missed the rant, but all I know is my timeline blew up in a hurry.
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    I see what you did there.
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    Glad Larkin is back on track. He looks beastly at welterweight.
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    Head kicks are not very prevalent in hockey, I see.
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    Well, that was brutal.
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    This man is about to fight in the UFC, folks:
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    I think from that same story they asked if it was an eye injury, and he didn't really deny it. That was the rumor going around when the fight just kind fell apart.
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    One thing I will say is there is going to be an interesting dynamic going forward. I think it's a bit too easy to say just sign with Bellator or WSOF because management teams tend to side with whomever they feel benefits them the most. Therefore, it isn't about fighter loyalty as it is manager loyalty. Greg Savage has been pushing over the last 3 weeks or so that he totally sees Ben Henderson leaving for Bellator. If my memory serves me correctly, this would be after the Korea show in the fall. However, I think that's where the interesting dynamic comes in at. The guys who would be the unhappiest, at least according to Dave Meltzer, would be the upper mid tier guys who wouldn't have an individual Reebok deal yet or not in the immediate title picture. In my mind, I think that's the category the UFC tries to appease depending on the fighter. You can lose a Phil Davis or post-prime Josh Koscheck because that's not where your bread is buttered. Now guys like Ben Henderson and Donald Cerrone and guys just below that tier like Matt Brown and Michael Bisping are fighters that you need to hold on to. People recognize the names and tune into to see them fight. That's also where the UFC is the strongest and from that been able to keep business pretty stable. You get them to comply, and a talent raid is not going to happen because a few guys leaving is typical in MMA. Let companies have the Kimbos and Ken Shamrocks of the world along with a bunch of fighters at a career crossroads like Tito and Cheick Kongo. They put on their events, and you go along putting on yours.
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    Yet, no one wanted to jump on that grenade. So here we are.
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    Reebok ‏@Reebok 9 minutes ago We've got big news coming soon! Tune into http://UFC.com on Tuesday at 10 am ET to view history in the making! #UFCFightKit
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    Not when it comes down to money. I never thought the Froch fight was ever happening just because Froch has no real interest in fighting anyone. There is enough money on the table for Cotto and Canelo to fight each other rather Golokvin. HBO doesn't really have a bunch of fights that they can throw on PPV. They have whatever diminished iteration of Pacquiao shows up next, the impossible to make Kovalev vs. Stevenson bout, and Cotto vs. Canelo. Cotto vs. Canelo is the only feasible one of that mix that actually can make money even though the prior negotiations had been a dick measuring contest leading to nowhere. I mean there are fights out there for Golovkin, but I dunno if they are star-making bouts. They are more rating popping bouts that you can do if you can. No one is demanding Golovkin vs. Ward, but I don't see how that bout doesn't get people to tune in. There are also some random guys at 160 and 168 that might make sense. Andy Lee, David Lemieux, and James DeGale would all be much better bouts than what you would usually get with Golovkin. Beating those guys would actually mean more for his resume than beating Cotto does at this point. Cotto would just be there to up his status to another level.
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    Well, it won't be his management it looks like. Bellator has signed a swath of Zinkin Entertainment clients. This would include Ed Ruth, Aaron Pico, Phil Davis, and now Koscheck. So he is probably getting money to be utterly inefficient against Paul Daley in a rematch and Douglas Lima. He will probably get a gimme win against someone like Josh Neer to justify his place on the roster, but I don't expect him to rise above that level obviously.
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    I mean the safe thing would be to put him in a relatively safe fight in Sep/October just so you have that option if Rockhold gets hurt. However, I am not sure how much that helps his marketability fighting guys on the Camozzi level. Romero getting injured actually helped Romero out and hurt Jacare significantly. Romero is getting a real tough fight, but it's still a main event against a guy who might be ripe for an upset. Jacare's title shot chances went to nil once Romero got hurt, and NY was looking like it might legalize pro MMA. Now, he has to get the winner of Machida/Romero or wait at least a few more months for the next MW title fight to roll around. Definitely not a good set of circumstances considering he is the #1 contender.
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    Bellator signed the remnants of Josh Koscheck.
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    Joe Schilling, boy.... https://vine.co/v/eJZa6Xg3j7h
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    That's what I was thinking. Korea does a few of these films a year, and they do pretty well at the domestic box office. They just don't shell out the money to get foreign talent like China does, and they're half as expensive to produce as a result.
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