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		<title>Video: inside the Last Emperor&#8217;s training palace</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/07/28/video-inside-the-last-emperors-training-palace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fedor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was always under the impression that Fedor Emelianenko lives a bit of a monk&#8217;s life in the wilderness of Russia and trains like Rocky from Rocky IV, chopping wood and running in hip-deep snow. Turns out Fedor is more like Ivan Drago, as this video of his gym, the subtly named Palace of Sport, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More proof leg kicks can win fights</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/07/21/more-proof-leg-kicks-can-win-fights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Shamrock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pedro Rizzo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, it&#8217;s proven that leg kicks can in fact win fights. This time it&#8217;s Pedro Rizzo chopping down Ken Shamrock at Impact FC in Australia. Also on the card were other UFC castoffs and knuckleheads, including Paul Daley, who submitted Daniel Acacio via strikes, Denis Kang and Paulo Filho, who fought to a split [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dean of Mean shambles to his feet</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/07/14/dean-of-mean-shambles-to-his-feet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Jardine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I still think Keith Jardine got screwed. Admittedly, I&#8217;ve got a soft spot for the Techno Viking and his inimitable drunken homeless dude fighting style. And Jardine has dropped four consecutive bouts and six of his last eight, including losses to Quinton &#8220;Rampage&#8221; Jackson, Thiago Silva, Ryan Bader and Matt Hamill just last month that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dog days of summer bring a mixed bag of mixed martial arts news</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/07/14/the-dog-days-of-summer-bring-a-mixed-bag-of-mixed-martial-arts-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a less-than-stellar June that had many, yours truly included, feeling a little burnt out on MMA &#8211; too many cards and more importantly, too may bad cards, July got off to a surprisingly exciting start with UFC 116. Still, there&#8217;s not a whole lot to talk about in the world of MMA, and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagining Fedor v 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/06/28/imagining-fedor-v-2-0/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/06/28/imagining-fedor-v-2-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fedor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In his post-Fedor loss piece, &#8220;Showdown&#8221; Joe Ferraro floats a couple of enticing scenarios. First, he suggests that the UFC may try to woo back Fabricio Werdum, who was cut after his UFC 90 loss to Junior dos Santos, and that it may lead to them trying one last time to sign Fedor Emelianenko, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gina Carano goes Haywire</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/06/17/gina-carano-goes-haywire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Girl fighting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lights, camera... action!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strikeforce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gina Carano]]></category>

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While Cristiane &#8220;Cyborg&#8221; Santos gets set to face Jan Finney at June 26&#8217;s Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Werdum, the woman she beat to earn the women&#8217;s featherweight belt, Gina Carano, has been conspicuously absent from the cage.
Well, her Hollywood dalliance, the Steve Soderberg-directed action thriller Haywire (formerly the too-on-the-nose Knockout), has begun preview screenings. And the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Sylvia is back? Seriously?</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/05/24/tim-sylvia-is-back-seriously/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marius Pudzianowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Sylvia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, World&#8217;s Strongest Man Marius Pudzianowski tapped out to strikes in his Friday bout with Tim Sylvia. And what do the commentators make of the performance &#8211; apparently Tim Sylvia, the former UFC heavyweight champ, is back. Umm, really? He beats a strongman in his third MMA fight in a second-rate promotion and suddenly Sylvia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MMA Day&#8217;s rally of hopeless</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/05/24/mma-days-rally-of-hopeless/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/05/24/mma-days-rally-of-hopeless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MMA Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanction]]></category>

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My enthusiasm for writing about Saturday&#8217;s MMA Day rally in Toronto matches the enthusiasm of Toronto MMA fans, who showed up by the tens to demonstrate their support for sanctioning in Ontario. Maybe my malaise is due to the Victoria Day long weekend, the idea that there’s more to life than standing in front of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe there&#8217;s something about tea drinkers</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/05/20/maybe-theres-something-about-tea-drinkers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/05/20/maybe-theres-something-about-tea-drinkers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 21:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal knees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul daley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Daley&#8217;s post-fight sucker punch is nothing compared to Atilla Kubilay&#8217;s cage rage against Richard Bowkett.
What I wonder is, why the hell did the referee even allow the fight to happen after Kubilay delivered a malicious pre-fight punch? He should&#8217;ve DQ&#8217;ed him before the opening bell. Instead, he allows the fight to procede and Kubilay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MMA Day is like a giant Tapout commercial dressed up like a self-righteous social activist</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/05/20/mma-day-is-like-a-giant-tapout-commercial-dressed-up-like-a-self-righteous-social-activist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/05/20/mma-day-is-like-a-giant-tapout-commercial-dressed-up-like-a-self-righteous-social-activist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 20:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commercialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MMA Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t said much about Saturday&#8217;s MMA Day rally in Toronto. I wrote about it briefly when it was announced and then stood back to see where it was going. Obviously, I&#8217;m in favour of mixed martial arts being sanctioned in the province of Ontario. It&#8217;s ridiculous and unevolved to believe that it shouldn&#8217;t be.
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help the Afflictioned: a rally to aid the plight of MMA fans in Ontario</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/05/20/help-the-afflictioned-a-rally-to-aid-the-plight-of-mma-fans-in-ontario/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/05/20/help-the-afflictioned-a-rally-to-aid-the-plight-of-mma-fans-in-ontario/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 18:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Katz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MMA Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know going to a pro-MMA rally should not be complicated. Throw on ye old Affliction shirt, head down to Queen&#8217;s Park, meet up with the guys from the gym, discuss why the United Nations has been conspicuously silent about mixed martial arts not be sanctioned in Ontario, and eyeball the handful of women who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conspiracy theories to explain Emelianenko&#8217;s magical knockout</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/26/conspiracy-theories-over-emelianenkos-magical-knockout/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/26/conspiracy-theories-over-emelianenkos-magical-knockout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aleksander Emelianenko]]></category>

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I&#8217;m still baffled by this apparent knockout by Aleksander Emelianenko. Maybe the fight was fixed, although it does seem way too obvious considering Emelianenko doesn&#8217;t even lay a glove on his opponent, Eddy Bengtsson. Maybe he doused his gloves in chloroform and Bengtsson got a whiff. Maybe he caught a good look at Emelianenko&#8217;s hideous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Emelianenko&#8217;s Jedi-Vulcan-Dim Mak death touch</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/26/video-emelianenkos-jedi-vulcan-dim-mak-death-touch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/26/video-emelianenkos-jedi-vulcan-dim-mak-death-touch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aleksander Emelianenko]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Found this fight between Fedor Emelianenko&#8217;s little brother, Aleksander, and Eddy Bengtsson over on GracieMag.com. It&#8217;s from Friday&#8217;s ProFC event in Moscow. I&#8217;ve watched it a dozen times and I still can&#8217;t figure out what caused Bengtsson to collapse like a sack of cement. Emelianenko&#8217;s left jab doesn&#8217;t even graze Bengtsson yet down he goes.

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		<title>BC blogger seeks attention, lays a smackdown on Showdown</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/08/bc-blogger-seeks-attention-lays-a-smackdown-on-showdown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/08/bc-blogger-seeks-attention-lays-a-smackdown-on-showdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Katz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Showdown]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those with no life there has been some fiery cyber tough talk between a BC blogger named Jonathan Ross and &#8220;Showdown&#8221; Joe Ferraro. Ross has an issue &#8211; several, actually &#8211; with the way Ferraro reported on whether the UFC was or was not coming to Vancouver. If you want to read something that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting words with the other Fighting Words</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/07/fighting-words-with-the-other-fighting-words/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/07/fighting-words-with-the-other-fighting-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Hayashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morgan Campbell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Star]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are two Fighting Words. Besides &#8220;fuck&#8221; and &#8220;you,&#8221; I mean. The Toronto Star, one of four daily newspapers in Toronto where I live, has a relatively new blog devoted to combat sports &#8211; boxing and MMA, specifically &#8211; also called Fighting Words. It&#8217;s written by Morgan Campbell, who is, best as I can tell [...]]]></description>
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