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		<title>GSP or Dan Hardy: whose jiu-jitsu is better?</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/09/gsp-or-dan-hardy-whos-jiu-jitsu-is-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Hardy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georges St Pierre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GSP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renzo Gracie]]></category>

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Dan Hardy is talking &#8211; better than half-jokingly, I assume &#8211; about how he&#8217;ll beat Georges St. Pierre on the ground at UFC 111 thanks to Eddie Bravo&#8217;s rubbery 10th Planet jiu-jitsu system. Meanwhile, the welterweight champ has been training with BJJ and MMA legend Renzo Gracie, who is prepping for his own bout with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fedor needs to prove he&#8217;s the best, something he hasn&#8217;t been in a long time</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/09/fedor-needs-to-prove-hes-still-the-best/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Katz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>

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I know I’m going to get flack for saying this but as of late I’m seriously underwhelmed by Fedor Emelianenko. Fighting the likes of Brett Rogers, Andrei Arlovski, Tim Sylvia and Hong-Man Choi are not the makings of “The Baddest Man on the Planet.”
I know he is a business man and I’m sure Affliction (at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kimbo vs. Matt Mitrione is official for UFC 113</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/08/kimbo-vs-matt-mitrione-is-official-for-ufc-113/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/08/kimbo-vs-matt-mitrione-is-official-for-ufc-113/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kimbo Slice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Mitrione]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official: Kimbo Slice vs. Matt Mitrione will take place at UFC 113 in Montreal on May 8. The UFC confirmed the bout today after a week of rumours that had the fight bumped to a still-hazy Fight Night in April opposite Strikeforce and Mitrione bumped in favour of newly acquired boxer James Toney. Much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was Brian Bowles busted mitt just an excuse?</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/08/was-brian-bowles-busted-mitt-just-an-excuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Bowles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few things have been stuck in my craw ever since Saturday&#8217;s WEC 47. Things that just don&#8217;t sit right, like Brian Bowles throwing in the towel with a busted hand after just two rounds.
You can call it a doctor&#8217;s stoppage but the only way for the doc to know the hand is busted is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Trailer: Ironman does MMA</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/08/movie-trailer-ironman-does-mma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/08/movie-trailer-ironman-does-mma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lights, camera... action!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ironman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Downey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This new trailer contains all kinds of Ironman bad-assery, but what&#8217;s it doing here? Well, at the 0:25 mark Robert Downey Jr&#8217;s Tony Stark is working out in a ring while wearing MMA gloves. And yes, I noticed that before I noticed the slinky Miss Scarlett Johansson in the same scene. Make of that what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WEC 47 goes from sizzle to fizzle</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/07/wec-47-goes-from-sizzle-to-fizzle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benavidez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominick Cruz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Javier Vasquez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jens Pulver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miguel Torres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WEC 47]]></category>

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Anti-climactic. That just about sums up Saturday&#8217;s WEC 47. Whether it was Jens Pulver being armbarred into retirement (again) in the first round, or former bantamweight superstar Miguel Angel Torres being choked out by a fighter half his size or champ Brian Bowles throwing in the towel after two rounds because of a broken hand, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strikeforce wins in promotion war with UFC</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/06/strikeforce-wins-in-promotion-war-with-ufc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/06/strikeforce-wins-in-promotion-war-with-ufc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Strikeforce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[promotion war]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Things just got messy in the battle between the UFC and Strikeforce and for once, it&#8217;s the UFC that looks bad.
UFC president Dana White has confirmed that the promotion will hold Fight Night 22 on Spike TV on April 17 &#8211; the same night that the biggest card in Strikeforce history airs on CBS.
Strikeforce has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claude Patrick signs UFC contract</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/06/claude-patrick-signs-ufc-contract/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/06/claude-patrick-signs-ufc-contract/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claude Patrick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I started hearing a rumour that IFL vet Claude Patrick was going to the UFC. Patrick confirmed to me &#8211; off the record &#8211; that he was in negotiations with the promotion. Now, it&#8217;s a done deal.
The Toronto welterweight, whom I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of training with a few times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jens Pulver is a little less evil</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/06/jens-pulver-is-a-little-less-evil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/06/jens-pulver-is-a-little-less-evil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Bowles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jens Pulver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miguel Torres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WEC 47]]></category>

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Tonight&#8217;s WEC 47 card is tight. Undefeated bantamweight champ Brian Bowles (8-0) headlines against challenger Dominick Cruz (14-1). It&#8217;s Bowles&#8217; first title defense since taking the belt from Miguel Torres last August. Torres (37-2) is also on the card. He&#8217;ll face Joseph Benavidez (11-1) in a 135-pound tilt that will fast-track the winner to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help get MMA sanctioned in Ontario</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/06/help-get-mma-sanctioned-in-ontario/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/06/help-get-mma-sanctioned-in-ontario/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalton McGuinty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Showdown Joe Ferraro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was a guest on &#8220;Showdown&#8221; Joe Ferraro&#8217;s radio show on the Fan 590 a couple of nights ago and inevitably the subject of MMA sanctioning in Ontario came up and inevitably I got a little incensed at the foot-dragging going on by Premier Dalton McGuinty. For a guy who shares a first name with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boxer James Toney stalks and trash talks his way to a UFC contract</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/03/boxer-james-toney-stalks-and-trash-talks-his-way-to-a-ufc-contract/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/03/boxer-james-toney-stalks-and-trash-talks-his-way-to-a-ufc-contract/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Squared circle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Toney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that boxer James Toney fancies himself the next UFC champion. Like the most-persistent Washington lobbyest, he&#8217;s hounded UFC president Dana White for months to get a contract. Ambushing him at press conferences, making taunting videos, calling him a &#8220;straight up ho.&#8221; Basically, he&#8217;s been stalking and trash talking the UFC. And it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why does Brett Rogers get a title shot before Fedor Emelianenko?</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/03/does-brett-rogers-deserve-a-crack-at-alistair-overeems-title/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/03/does-brett-rogers-deserve-a-crack-at-alistair-overeems-title/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Strikeforce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alistair Overeem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brett Rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fedor]]></category>

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Does Brett Rogers deserve a title shot? His last fight was a KO loss to Fedor Emelianenko. Before that he literally turned new Strikeforce fighter Andrei Arlovski into the punchline of a joke that took all of 22 seconds to tell. And before that he flattened a few cans. Nine of them, to be precise.
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atlantic Canada gets amateur MMA before Ontario gets any</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/02/atlantic-canada-gets-amateur-mma-before-ontario-gets-any/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/02/atlantic-canada-gets-amateur-mma-before-ontario-gets-any/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amateur MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Brunswick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Can I just say how depressing it is to know that my home province, New Brunswick, has sanctioned MMA before we do here in Ontario? Not only that, but the city of Moncton will be hosting the first amateur MMA card in the Atlantic provinces when it does so on March 20. This is in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer Sam Sheridan explores The Fighter&#8217;s Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/02/writer-san-sheridan-explores-the-fighters-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Sheridan]]></category>

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Consider this a public service announcement: Sam Sheridan has a new book out called The Fighter&#8217;s Mind. It&#8217;s a sequel of sorts to A Fighters Heart, a &#8220;must read&#8221; about fighting that saw the Harvard grad study traditional Muay Thai in Thailand (he even had a couple of fights) and MMA with Pat Miletich.
The Fighter&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fedor Emelianenko causes more trouble for Strikeforce</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/02/fedor-emelianenko-causes-more-trouble-for-strikeforce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2010/03/02/fedor-emelianenko-causes-more-trouble-for-strikeforce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Strikeforce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fedor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Botter over at Brawl Sports asks whether or not Fedor Emelianenko is really worth all the trouble. He explains that Fedor&#8217;s management at M-1 Global are &#8220;currently at an impasse with Strikeforce&#8221; and are trying to renegotiate the fighter&#8217;s contract to get more money.
Pretty normal stuff in the world of pro sports &#8211; an [...]]]></description>
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