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	<description>musings on mixed martial arts, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai and all things mano-a-mano</description>
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		<title>Do you really want to see Condit vs Diaz II?</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/02/06/do-you-really-want-to-see-condit-vs-diaz-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Condit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Diaz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rematch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I understand why UFC boss Dana White would consider booking a rematch between interim welterweight champ Carlos Condit and Nick Diaz. It&#8217;s one of the most argued-about fights in recent memory. But I have no clue why fans would want to see it. Condit eked out a narrow but clear victory and has nothing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nick Diaz wasn&#8217;t robbed so get over it</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/02/05/nick-diaz-wasnt-robbed-so-get-over-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Condit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Diaz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t understand the shock and outrage people are expressing over Carlos Condit&#8217;s unanimous-decision win to claim the interim welterweight belt at Saturday&#8217;s UFC 143.
Sure, I&#8217;ll admit to being mildly surprised, not because I thought Nick Diaz won, but because you never know what&#8217;s going to happen when a fight is left in the hands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dana White&#8217;s vlog and UFC on Fox boredom</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/02/01/dana-whites-vlog-and-ufc-on-fox-boredom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/02/01/dana-whites-vlog-and-ufc-on-fox-boredom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chael Sonnen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Bisping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phil Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rashad Evans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFC 143]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fightingwords.ca/?p=10904</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was so bored by last Saturday&#8217;s UFC on Fox three-bout main card that I forgot to write my reactions to it. Even the animated rock &#8216;em sock &#8216;em robots during the opening credits were more memorable.
Chael Sonnen looked horrible in a decision win over Michael Bisping and Rashad Evans looked similarly unimpressive while outclassing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chael Sonnen floats like a butterfly</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/27/chael-sonnen-floats-like-a-butterfly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/27/chael-sonnen-floats-like-a-butterfly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chael Sonnen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muhammad Ali]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fightingwords.ca/?p=10896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chael Sonnen seems to think he&#8217;s Muhammad Ali (starting at the 5:30 mark of the video below), and I have to admit I&#8217;m amused by it. Of course, it&#8217;s a put-on. He&#8217;s found a shtick that works for him, that no one else outside of professional wrestling is using, and he&#8217;s using it. Here&#8217;s hoping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demian Maia is the underdog against Chris Weidman?</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/27/demian-maias-tough-spot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/27/demian-maias-tough-spot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demian Maia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fightingwords.ca/?p=10891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel a bit badly for Demian Maia. While Chael Sonnen is carrying around a fake UFC belt and preparing to face Michael Bisping at Saturday&#8217;s UFC on Fox card, with the winner slated for a title shot, the Brazilian jiu-jitsu ace has seen his contender status take a bit of a nosedive as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Ronda Rousey right about GSP?</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/26/is-ronda-rousey-right-about-gsp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/26/is-ronda-rousey-right-about-gsp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Girl fighting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strikeforce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronda Rousey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fightingwords.ca/?p=10885</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As someone who&#8217;s gotten in a few heated exchanges and altercations with movie theatre assholes, I can appreciate Ronda Rousey&#8217;s story about confronting an Ugg-wearing seat kicker (4:20 mark of the first video).
Rousey, who&#8217;s known just as much for her shoot-from-the-lip Chael  Sonnen attitude as her four armbar wins in four minutes, will challenge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carano convinces, even if Haywire&#8217;s not the action movie you expected</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/26/carano-convinces-even-if-haywires-not-the-action-movie-you-expected/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/26/carano-convinces-even-if-haywires-not-the-action-movie-you-expected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Girl fighting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lights, camera... action!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gina Carano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haywire]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fightingwords.ca/?p=10864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s an old adage in movies: if you introduce a gun, somebody’s going to get shot. Haywire inspires a related question: Why put Gina Carano in handcuffs if you’re not going to then make her fight a swarm of bad guys?
That&#8217;s just one of the more puzzling elements of the Steven Soderbergh-helmed spy thriller. Granted, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melvin Guillard puzzles and puckers up</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/24/melvin-guillard-puzzles-and-puckers-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/24/melvin-guillard-puzzles-and-puckers-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melvin Guillard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fightingwords.ca/?p=10877</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is posing for photos with fans really the best way to spend the final few seconds before stepping into the octagon? I mean, it&#8217;s cool that Melvin Guillard felt comfortable and relaxed enough to do that (7:45 mark), but it seems strange and perhaps distracting. Granted, if he&#8217;d beaten Jim Miller at last weekend&#8217;s UFC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Big John McCarthy clarifies what an illegal head strike looks like</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/24/video-big-john-mccarthy-clarifies-what-an-illegal-head-strike-looks-like/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/24/video-big-john-mccarthy-clarifies-what-an-illegal-head-strike-looks-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big John McCarthy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[head strike]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fightingwords.ca/?p=10872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chances are a blow to the back of the head isn&#8217;t what you think it is. Even I was surprised by the narrow parameters of what constitutes such an illegal strike (and I&#8217;m the first one to cry foul whenever they occur). This video with &#8220;Big John&#8221; McCarthy certainly clarifies the matter and is mandatory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Jon Jones kicks his kid</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/23/video-jon-jones-kicks-his-kid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/23/video-jon-jones-kicks-his-kid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Super Bowl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fightingwords.ca/?p=10867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I get that the UFC is trying to break out of the box it&#8217;s in, grab some mainstream attention, appeal to sporting Joes and maybe a housewife or two. But I&#8217;m not sure this ad, which aired during Sunday&#8217;s NFL playoffs on Fox, really works.
You can see that it really really wants to be one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UFC on FX impresses with KOs and subs aplenty</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/21/ufc-on-fx-impresses-with-kos-and-subs-aplenty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/21/ufc-on-fx-impresses-with-kos-and-subs-aplenty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FX]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fightingwords.ca/?p=10855</guid>
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Eight finishes in 10 fights, six of those in the first round. That&#8217;s how you put on a a fight card. So if you wrote off Friday&#8217;s UFC on FX debut due to a lack of big names (as I did just a few days ago), you owe it to yourself to check it out. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melvin Guillard and Jim Miller (and Jim Miller&#8217;s mustache) are a couple of pros</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/20/melvin-guillard-and-jim-miller-and-jim-millers-mustache-are-a-couple-of-pros/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/20/melvin-guillard-and-jim-miller-and-jim-millers-mustache-are-a-couple-of-pros/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melvin Guillard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fightingwords.ca/?p=10850</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s strange to see Melvin Guillard and Jim Miller chilling together before the weigh-ins (6:45 in Dana White&#8217;s vlog), discussing Miller&#8217;s &#8217;stache, and then see them smiling at the weigh-ins. Strange because we often think of the animosity created and fabricated by fighters, either to get in the &#8220;destroy him&#8221; frame of mind or to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pat Barry is the smiliest fighter in MMA</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/20/pat-barry-is-the-smiliest-fighter-in-mma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/20/pat-barry-is-the-smiliest-fighter-in-mma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Barry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fightingwords.ca/?p=10845</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pat Barry cracks me up (check out his Techno-Viking). And apparently Christian Morecraft and his jutting alien jaw crack Pat Barry up. Can&#8217;t say as I blame him. Morecraft looked ridiculous during Thursday&#8217;s weigh-ins for today&#8217;s UFC on FX card. Doesn&#8217;t help that he has his name tattooed in gangsta script across his belly. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Mario Yamasaki almost DQ&#8217;ed Rousimar Palhares for being polite</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/19/video-mario-yamasaki-almost-dqed-rousimar-palhares-for-being-polite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/19/video-mario-yamasaki-almost-dqed-rousimar-palhares-for-being-polite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mario Yamasaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rousimar Palhares]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fightingwords.ca/?p=10839</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was bad enough that referee Mario Yamasaki cost Erick Silva an obvious victory, but he actually threatened to disqualify Rousimar Palhares, as well (if the translation on the video below is accurate). After Palhares subbed Mike Massenzio he tapped him on the back to shake his hand, at which point Yamasaki stepped in. Now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s start a Strikeforce dead pool</title>
		<link>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/18/lets-start-a-strikeforce-dead-pool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fightingwords.ca/2012/01/18/lets-start-a-strikeforce-dead-pool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barrett Hooper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Strikeforce]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fightingwords.ca/?p=10835</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you need a clear sign that Strikeforce is in palliative care then the live attendance figures for the promotion&#8217;s most-recent event should convince you that Zuffa is about to pull the plug. According to figures released by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, a mere 1,992 people showed up to watch Luke Rockhold knock out [...]]]></description>
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