Vitor Belfort looking every bit his age against Luke Rockhold

Jacare Souza puts Chris Camozzi to sleep as part of a popular Brazilian sex ritual

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Gleison Tibau finishes John Cholish.  Really.  Finishes.  Tibau.

As if it wasn't hard enough being Fabio Maldonado, here's an early nominee for worst nutshot of the millennium courtesy of Roger Hollett

John Lineker putting 125 pounds of mohawk fury into Azamat Gashimov's liver followed by the quickest backflip you'll see in the cage any time soon

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• Vitor Belfort vs. Luke Rockhold
• Chris Camozzi vs. Ronaldo Souza
• Rafael dos Anjos vs. Evan Dunham
• Rafael Natal vs. Joao Zeferino

• Hacran Dias vs. Nik Lentz
• Mike Rio vs. Francisco Trinaldo
• John Cholish vs. Gleison Tibau
• Michel Prazeres vs. Paulo Thiago
• Yuri Alcantara vs. Iliarde Santos
• Roger Hollett vs. Fabio Maldonado

• Azamat Gashimov vs. John Lineker
• Chris Cariaso vs. Jussier Formiga
• Jeremy Larsen vs. Lucas Martins

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Four weeks from now, Josh Burkman will fight in the main event of the third World Series of Fighting event on the nationally-syndicated NBC Sports network.  He faces a familiar opponent in UFC castaway Jon Fitch, whom he suffered a second-round submission loss to seven years ago at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas – the same venue the World Series of Fighting will visit next month.

Fitch beat me worse than anybody's ever beat me in my career inside or outside the cage.  He beat me at a time when I was probably buying my own hype a little too much and I definitely underestimated Fitch and overestimated myself.  That's where my career started to go up and down and it's a fight that I performed well under my abilities and now coming back in my career, it's just a fight that I want back.  I think every fighter wants a chance to avenge his losses.

I’m a much different fighter now and having that performance that I had will not only help me avenge that loss but will also [help me prove] I’m one of the top welterweights in the world.  That's my ultimate goal, to prove that I'm one of the top fighters in the world and I think the World Series of Fighting has given me an opportunity to climb that platform by bringing Jon Fitch in.  He's a top ten guy in the world.”

I think I can deal with Fitch.  I fought him before and I know the mistakes I made against him.  I'm a much different fighter now than I was then.  At the same time, it seems like Fitch has taken his wrestling into MMA a little better than Aaron Simpson did.  He used his wrestling to set up his hands, Jon Fitch has great standup but he also uses wrestling to transition to jiu-jitsu, a much different style and a much different problem than Simpson posed. I'm excited to see [Jon Fitch’s approach] myself.  I really feel that I'm better now than I've ever been, better than I've been in my entire career.  I think after we both come out that Jon Fitch might try to press the action – and I hope he does that.   After the first minute of the first round, Jon Fitch is going to realize he’s in there with a completely different fighter and I’m going to be able to find some openings and put myself into some good positions.  The more he does that the more than I’m going to be able to hurt him and I think over the first round and a half I'll really be able to start to break Jon Fitch down and I’m definitely going to stop it.   I don’t think this fight will go to a decision – I think I'll stop him before the fight goes the distance. Fight fans appreciate good fights and I think World Series of Fighting is giving fight fans really good fights and fights they want to see.  The big thing for World Series of Fighting is that three-year deal with NBC sports.  NBC Sports came in and bought Versus to have a TV station for the Olympics and I read that that station is in 80 million homes.  That's what makes the WSOF unique in an upstart promotion is they got that TV deal.  The World Series of Fighting, when I signed on with them my goal was to be a future fighter in their organization, not use their organization as a stepping stone to get somewhere else.  I am coming off wins over Gerald Harris, Aaron Simpson and now I have a chance to become a top welterweight in this promotion with a win over Jon Fitch.  I absolutely want to represent this brand right and I've been told the better the fighters do this better this organization does and the better the organization does, the better for us fighters.

They were very open to it and when they signed Jon Fitch, they let me redo my contract again.  It’s nice having a president like Ray Sefo because he knows where the fighters are coming from.  They listened to me and they gave me a new contract, so I've got a four fight deal with them.  I'm very happy with this organization and where it's going and I'll be around with them for a while. Competition for the UFC is healthy and I think that for me, I’m coming up to the best part of my career over the next couple of years and I’m grateful for the WSOF for giving me a platform to perform on and I also think that I’m going to prove that one of the best fighters in the world is not on the UFC but in another organization.

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“For right now, he’s just anxious to get that boot off and make sure his toe is good to go.  As long as he feels good coming off that boot and when he goes to put pressure on it, he can walk without a boot, and his toe is strong and everything’s good there then it shouldn’t (delay his return).  One thing about Jon is he’s not going to take any chances whatsoever.  As long as his foot heals properly and he’s got no issues with it, it shouldn’t delay anything. “I’ll just tell you this, I wouldn’t be surprised if Jon fights two more times this year.  That’s very aggressive and I know that’s crazy, but it’s something that he discussed with me and we talked about it.  I told Superman to relax a little bit, you’re injured right now, but he’s got an aggressive timeline in his head. Certain goals and accomplishments that he wants and we’re looking to get that record.” ... “The truth and the fact of the matter is before we can talk any superfight or any move in weight class or anything to that effect, Jon Jones wants to win his next fight at light heavyweight, he wants to break that record, he wants to own that record solely.  He wants to be considered the greatest light heavyweight of all time at this point,” Kawa stated.  “I already think he is the greatest light heavyweight of all time, record or no record.

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Carwin's decision had been a few months in the making, precipitated by a knee injury that sidelined him from a headlining bout against fellow Ultimate Fighter 16 coach Roy Nelson last December. The final confirmation came in the form of a letter from Carwin's spine surgeon, who recommended he step down from combat sports' competition entirely. "Once the knee got better, I tried to go back to training and had problems with my spine, my lower back.," said Carwin. "That [letter] obviously made the decision for me, for us." With all said and done, Carwin walks away from professional sports with six bulging and an additional three ruptured discs. He's also developed foraminal stenosis and arthritis. Foraminal stenosis, which narrows the passage that the spinal cord runs through and constricts on the nerve roots, carries symptoms like numbness, weakness, burning sensations, tingling and "pins and needles" in the arms and legs. This and Carwin's arthritis made for some uncomfortable-to-excruciating training sessions at Denver's Grudge Training Center over the last few years, as he prepared for bouts against Gabriel Gonzaga, Frank Mir and Brock Lesnar.

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"We are very disappointed by Nate Diaz's comments, which are in no way reflective of our organization," the statement read. "Nate is currently suspended pending internal investigation and we will provide further comment once the matter has been decided."

“Guess what? The word f—-t, at least in Northern California, and where Nate is from, means bitch. It means you’re a little punk. It has nothing to do with homosexuals at all. So when Nate made the comment that he made, he didn’t make it in reference to homosexuals or calling Caraway a homosexual. He just said it was a bitch move.”

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