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Ben Fowlkes

Joined: Dec 11, 2013

Frustrated by Strikeforce politics, Kennedy prepares for Rockhold
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Frustrated by Strikeforce politics, Kennedy prepares for Rockhold

As Kennedy explained it in a recent interview with SI.com: "I left the military so I could be a professional athlete, and this doesn't feel very professional."

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Nearing retirement, Silva hoping to reclaim past glory against Franklin
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Nearing retirement, Silva hoping to reclaim past glory against Franklin

This is before all that. This is vintage Wanderlei, and he's still out there in grainy YouTube clips -- pummeling some poor bastard in a bare-knuckle

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Veterans Franklin and Silva set to face off one more time at UFC 147
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Veterans Franklin and Silva set to face off one more time at UFC 147

Rich Franklin (28-6-1) knows he must be close to retirement because people keep asking him about it. For the last two years it's come up in nearly every

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UFC's message: Don't get hurt
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UFC's message: Don't get hurt

If you didn't know better, you'd have thought UFC president Dana White was talking about an act of God, some unavoidable misfortune that finds its way across

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Frank Mir's sights set on return to heavyweight summit at UFC 146
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Frank Mir's sights set on return to heavyweight summit at UFC 146

LAS VEGAS -- Frank Mir doesn't want to have to break UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos's arm this Saturday night. So he says. So he would have us

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Dos Santos feeling pressure to deliver against Mir at UFC 146
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Dos Santos feeling pressure to deliver against Mir at UFC 146

UFC heavyweight champ Junior dos Santos was supposed to play a video game against former champ Frank Mir once. This was months ago, before they found

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UFC has conflict of interest when it's both promoter and regulator
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UFC has conflict of interest when it's both promoter and regulator

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- If you think it's an inherent conflict of interest for the UFC to act as its own regulator when it takes its event abroad, you're right.

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Jones and Evans, once training stablemates, ready for title clash
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Jones and Evans, once training stablemates, ready for title clash

Jon Jones blames Rashad Evans for the way things turned out. Evans blames Jones and former trainer Greg Jackson. And Jackson? Jackson blames himself. Maybe

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Mo Lawal release underscores Zuffa's need for code of conduct
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Mo Lawal release underscores Zuffa's need for code of conduct

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Lawal's fight back from infection, positive drug test just beginning
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Lawal's fight back from infection, positive drug test just beginning

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Goodridge, former MMA fighter and kickboxer, offers cautionary tale
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Goodridge, former MMA fighter and kickboxer, offers cautionary tale

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Was submission victim Miesha Tate too tough for her own good?
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Was submission victim Miesha Tate too tough for her own good?

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