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Posted on | March 16, 2011 | No Comments

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Fans love Derek, split on MMA
Albany Times Union
By Mark Mcguire Senior Writer New Yorkers side with the players over the owners in the current NFL labor strife, would like to see expanded instant replay in baseball and are divided on allowing mixed martial arts (MMA) here, according to a Siena 
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A tough fight to legalize mixed martial arts in NY
WXXA
It’s been a battle for years, but now the Ultimate Fighting Championship is pulling out the big guns, trying to convince state lawmakers to legalize mixed martial arts competitions in New York State. And UFC officials say this is one fight they aren’t 
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PC’s James wins pro MMA debut in 29 seconds
The News Herald
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Lionel James’ preparation over the past three months was geared to surviving a 15-minute mixed martial arts match. Turns out, he only needed to be ready for less than 30 seconds. The Panama City firefighter defeated Georgia native 
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Is the UFC’s Purchase of Strikeforce Bad For the Fighters?
Bloody Elbow
Currently, the business of mixed martial arts is akin to the old “studio system” that dominated Hollywood, where the fates of actors were left entirely to the mercy of idiosyncratic studio executives and owners,” Rob Maysey said. 
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Stars aligned for wunderkind Jones
ESPN
By Franklin McNeil NEWARK, NJ — For all that Mauricio Rua has accomplished in mixed martial arts, it’s almost unfair that he should be an underdog in his first UFC light heavyweight title defense. Get ESPN.com’s full coverage of Saturday’s UFC 128 
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Jessica “Jag” Aguilar: The making of an MMA fighter
Sun-Sentinel
I didn’t know what mixed martial arts was and I had no clue about UFC or any MMAshow.” While watching her first MMA fight, Aguilar met a promoter from American Top Team who was looking for a woman to replace one who couldn’t fight at a match the 
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World MMA Bantamweight Scouting Report: #2 – Farkhad Sharipov
Bloody Elbow
by Leland Roling on Mar 15, 2011 9:00 PM EDT in MMA Analysis Similarly to Yusup Saadulaev, our #2 ranked bantamweight on our 2011 World MMA Bantamweight Scouting Report hails from a region that is world-renowned for producing top-flight wrestling 
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Fighting temptation
Asbury Park Press
FILE PHOTO 2010 It was one thing for Kurt Pellegrino to think that he had fought his last mixed martial arts bout. But it was another thing entirely for the former two-time state wrestling finalist from Point Boro to learn that a rival trainer had 
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UFC 128 Fight Card: Brendan Schaub Won’t Let Respect Get in the Way of Beating 
Bloody Elbow
“When Cro Cop was kicking ass and taking names is when I was really just getting into mixed martial arts, 2005, 2006,” Schaub said earlier this month on Bloody Elbow Radio. “For me, he was the guy I looked up to. “In this sport you don’t get a lot of 
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MMA Makes Albany Pitch | Politics on the Hudson
By Nick Reisman
Advocates for mixedmartial arts are in Albany today to lobby state lawmakers in the hope they would legalize the sport this year. The sport, which opponents.
Politics on the Hudson – http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/

 

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Biggest Weekend In JMMA Rocked By Massive Earthquake UPDATES | MMA
THe Jewels and Pancrase events for this weekend have been cancelled. Please stay tuned for further updates on this awful natural disaster.
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