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		<title>Korean Zombie is taking over Fight Planet</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2011/05/02/korean-zombie-is-taking-over-fight-planet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2011/05/02/korean-zombie-is-taking-over-fight-planet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 23:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korean Zombie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually promote personal appearances by fighters, but when it comes to the Korean Zombie I&#8217;ll make an exception. If you don&#8217;t know Chan Sung Jung (aka the Korean Zombie), then you should. Seriously, he&#8217;s the awesomest zombie ever, and that includes the one that punched the shark in Lucio Fulci&#8217;s Zombie 2.

He put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Korean Zombie gets a little twisted</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2011/03/27/korean-zombie-gets-a-little-twisted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2011/03/27/korean-zombie-gets-a-little-twisted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Hardy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korean Zombie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nogueira]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phil Davis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Johnson put Dan Hardy&#8217;s UFC career on life support, and Phil Davis proved that he&#8217;s got a long way to go before he&#8217;s even close to being ready to challenge newly minted light heavyweight champ Jon Jones, but it was Chan-Sung Jung who stole the show with the first-ever twister submission in UFC history.
Last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anthony Pettis&#8217; jaw-dropping kick caps WEC&#8217;s final card</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/12/17/anthony-pettis-jaw-dropping-kick-caps-wecs-final-card/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/12/17/anthony-pettis-jaw-dropping-kick-caps-wecs-final-card/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Pettis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Henderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominick Cruz]]></category>

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To call it a highlight-reel kick would be an understatement. To call it &#8220;the greatest move in MMA history&#8221; or &#8220;MMA move of the decade,&#8221; well, that&#8217;s a lot to live up to and I&#8217;m not quite sure it does. Still, it&#8217;s something only a Hollywood screenwriter could dream up, maybe one of the Matrix [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to fix UFC 125 after Jose Aldo&#8217;s injury</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/11/29/ufc-125-aldo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/11/29/ufc-125-aldo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jose Aldo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that injury has forced newly strapped UFC featherweight champ Jose Aldo to withdraw from his first title defense since the WEC was swallowed by its big brother, the card for UFC 125 is looking a lot less like something I want to battle a New Year’s Day hangover to see.
Now, it’s not a total [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UFC and WEC will merge in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/10/28/ufc-and-wec-merge-in-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/10/28/ufc-and-wec-merge-in-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[merger]]></category>

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The world of MMA just got bigger – and smaller. UFC boss Dana White&#8217;s &#8220;big announcement&#8221; on Thursday was that the UFC will merge (i.e., absorb, swallow, consume) with its little brother, the WEC. The shuttering of the WEC will be finalized by the end of this year, with WEC 52 on November 11 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WEC 53 title bouts make a great holiday card</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/10/21/wec-53-titles-bouts-make-a-great-holiday-gift/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/10/21/wec-53-titles-bouts-make-a-great-holiday-gift/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cerrone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cruz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WEC 53]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WEC 53 is still two months away but I&#8217;m already a little excited. A card featuring a lightweight title bout between champ Benson &#8220;Bendo&#8221; Henderson and Anthony Pettis, a bantamweight title tilt between Dominick Cruz and challenger Scott Jorgensen and a lightweight contender match-up between Donald Cerrone and Chris Horodecki? Christmas comes a little early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brocktoberfest heartburn</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/10/12/brocktoberfest-heartburn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Strikeforce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brocktoberfest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brocktoberfest is well under way and so far it&#8217;s been a bunch of small meals leading up to the main course &#8211; UFC 121&#8217;s heavyweight title bout between champ Brock Lesnar and challenger Cain Velasquez.
Just this past weekend, while those of us here in Canada stuffed ourselves with Thanksgiving turkey, Strikeforce welterweight champ Nick Diaz [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something&#8217;s wrong when Manny Gamburyan is the highest-paid fighter on the card</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/28/somethings-wrong-when-manny-gamburyan-is-the-highest-paid-fighter-on-the-card/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/28/somethings-wrong-when-manny-gamburyan-is-the-highest-paid-fighter-on-the-card/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salaries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m glad that UFC president Dana White made good on his promise that fighters at last Saturday&#8217;s WEC 48 Aldo vs. Faber would get a bigger payday than usual, there&#8217;s still something rotten in the state of Denmark.
The event exceeded expectations at every level, from the quality of the fights to the number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Brown takes loss like a man</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/27/mike-brown-takes-loss-like-a-man/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/27/mike-brown-takes-loss-like-a-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[excuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manny Gamburyan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MIke Brown]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is what I like to hear from fighters. Mike Brown, who got his bell rung by Manny Gamburyan at last Saturday&#8217;s WEC 48, has come forward to say that his loss had nothing to do with any personal issues he may have been dealing with.
UFC president Dana White said during post-event interviews that Brown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Urijah Faber keep fighting?</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/26/should-urijah-faber-keep-fighting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/26/should-urijah-faber-keep-fighting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urijah Faber]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Urijah Faber says he&#8217;s still got a few fights left in him, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped his hometown newspaper, the Sacremento Bee, from calling for his retirement following his lopsided leg-killing loss to WEC featherweight champ José Aldo on Saturday.
&#8220;Without Faber, the WEC would not have had its first pay-per-view event Saturday night at Arco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A second, more-satisfying thought about Jose Aldo vs. Urijah Faber</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/25/a-second-more-satisfying-thought-about-jose-aldo-vs-urijah-faber/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/25/a-second-more-satisfying-thought-about-jose-aldo-vs-urijah-faber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Gerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jose Aldo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urijah Faber]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fightingwords.ca/?p=7935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Joel Gerson from Revolution MMA just sent me a text regarding Jose Aldo&#8217;s easing up on Urijah Faber during the later rounds of Saturday&#8217;s WEC main event. I&#8217;d taken Aldo to task for not finishing Faber off, the latest in a string of lopsided title fights that went to the judges when it clearly shouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we not entertained? Yes, we are: WEC 48&#8217;s Zombie attack earns Fight of the Year consideration</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/25/are-we-not-entertained-yes-we-are-wec-48s-zombie-attack-earns-fight-of-the-year-consideration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/25/are-we-not-entertained-yes-we-are-wec-48s-zombie-attack-earns-fight-of-the-year-consideration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chan Sung Jung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonard Garcia]]></category>

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Sometimes words just aren&#8217;t enough. But here are a few to describe WEC 48&#8217;s three-round Fight of the Night (and possibly of the year) between Leonard Garcia and Chan Sung Jung: Jaw-dropping, sloppy, gutsy, thrilling, relentless, unpredictable, entertaining as hell.
For three rounds, Garcia and Chan played rock &#8216;em sock &#8216;em robots in a preliminary fisticuffs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WEC puts on Card of the Year contender, but a question still lingers</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/25/wec-puts-on-card-of-the-year-contender-but-a-question-still-lingers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Henderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Cerrone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jose Aldo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manny Gamburyan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MIke Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urijah Faber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WEC 48]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Again the issue of fighters not finishing fights rears its ugly head. This time at Saturday&#8217;s WEC 48, or whatever you want to call the non-WEC-branded event that probably had a lot of casual fans thinking they were watching the UFC (and paves the way for a further melding/absorbing of the WEC/UFC brand).
No, Jose Aldo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: WEC 48 could be the best card of the year so far. Or not. But you don&#8217;t want to miss it either way. So get your popcorn ready</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/04/23/video-wec-48-could-be-the-best-card-of-the-year-so-far-or-not-but-you-dont-want-to-miss-it-either-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Henderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bendo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Cerrone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jose Aldo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MIke Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urijah Faber]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a couple of lame UFC cards, a Strikeforce bust and a Bellator that bored, I&#8217;m afraid to get my hopes up too high for Saturday&#8217;s WEC 48. It&#8217;s got such a stacked main card, it&#8217;s hard not to. And with UFC president Dana White taking over the captain&#8217;s chair and running the show for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Bendo vs. Cerrone 2</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/29/video-bendo-vs-cerrone-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/29/video-bendo-vs-cerrone-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Henderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bendo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Cerrone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Consider yourself on notice: Book a babysitter, call your buddies, mark on your calendar &#8211; you do not want to miss this fight. The first time Ben Henderson met Donald Cerrone at WEC 43 it was the fight of the year. Hands down, no contest. Here&#8217;s what I wrote at the time back in October:
Last [...]]]></description>
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