Mixed Martial Arts Links (11-18-11)

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Mixed Martial Artists Fight New York Ban
Courthouse News Service
By IULIA FILIP MANHATTAN (CN) – The Ultimate Fighting Championship, the leadingmixed martial arts promoter, claims New York state’s 1997 law banning live professional mixed martial arts fighting is unconstitutional and irrational. …
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Courthouse News Service

Introducing Salary Cap Fantasy MMA
FakeTeams
by JustBlogGuy on Nov 17, 2011 4:00 PM EST in Fantasy MMA The dawn of mixed martial arts as a spectator sport came at the original Ultimate Fighting Championship event in 1993, more than thirty years after the birth of fantasy football. …
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Georges St-Pierre and the 8 Best Role Models in MMA Today
Bleacher Report
This type of violence is generally viewed negatively by the main stream which has taken its fair share of jabs at the sport of mixed martial arts throughout the years. However there are competitors and ambassadors for the sport who have broken the …
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Bleacher Report

Legend Le brings action-hero style to the UFC
Yahoo! Sports
But on Saturday night, at the age of 39, Le (7-1), now a martial arts movie actor, debuts in UFC to face one of the legends of mixed martial arts, Brazil’s Wanderlei Silva (33-11-1, 1 no contest). The fight is the co-main event at UFC 139 at the HP …
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Yahoo! Sports

MMA returns to Hard Rock
SunHerald.com
By JAMES JONES – jkjones@sunherald.com Three Atlas Fights championships in Mixed Martial Arts will be on the line tonight at the Hard Rock Casino in Biloxi. Super flyweight, lightweight and featherweight titles headline an 11-card bout, titled “Rock’n …
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Bellator 58: Jessica Aguilar Talks MMA Beginnings, Family, and Bellator
Bloody Elbow
by Matthew Roth on Nov 17, 2011 2:59 PM EST in MMA Interview Jessica Aguilar is currently ranked as the #2 115 pound female in the world. She is also a veteran of the Bellator tournaments and fights this Saturday against Lisa Ward at Bellator 58. …
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UFC 139 Fight Card: Dan Henderson Funds His Wrestling Addiction With MMA In Japan
MMA Nation
By Jonathan Snowden – Feature Writer By Nate Wilcox – MMA Editor UFC.com has released Dan Henderson’s KO of Michael Bisping at UFC 100 as the Knock Out of the Week. Read more » Dan Henderson is a UFC star and at UFC 139 this weekend could take his …
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MMA Nation

Steve Blackman’s MMA promotion ready to roll with sixth Pennsylvania Fighting …
Patriot-News (blog)
NOTES: Blackman MMA alums Dennis Bermudez and Dustin Pague will be signing autographs at the event. Bermudez in the finals of the UFC reality series The Ultimate Fighter and will be fighting for a UFC contract next month in Las Vegas. …
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The Battle for MMA in Madison Square Garden Continues: Legislation at a Glance
Head Kick Legend
by David Castillo on Nov 17, 2011 10:43 AM EST in Combat Sports As MMA fans, we kind of take the sport’s growth for granted. We’re on FOX, and with the latest news that the UFC on FOX peaked at 8.8 million viewers, and therefore was a success, …
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Rousey focused on fight at hand
Glendale News Press
Though Budd is ranked sixth in the latest Unified Women’s Mixed Martial ArtsRankings and Rousey is ninth, the odds have Rousey as a 6-1 favorite. “All my fights have always been like that, even in muay Thai [kickboxing], I’ve kind of always been the…
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Glendale News Press

Blogs

Manny Pacquiao payout for Marquez 3 fight buries UFC on FOX’s …
By Kevin Haggerty
On Sat., Nov. 12, both Junior dos Santos and Manny Pacquiao were the big winners on their respective sport’s main event. MMAmania.com discusses the dramatic difference in the payout each fighter took home for their victory.
MMAmania.com

UFC 139 press conference LIVE updates today (Nov … – MMA Mania
By Brian Hemminger
UFC 139 press conference LIVE updates today (Nov. 17) for ‘Shogun vs Henderson’ in San Jose.
MMAmania.com

Tapped Out is In!!! | Fightlinker – UFC, Strikeforce, and Mixed Martial …
By fightlinker
But when he was conceiving his second book, he did not plan to take the same approach and become an amateur M.M.A. contender. “I suggested that he train,” said Patrick Mulligan, Mr. Polly’s editor at Gotham Books. Fittingly, the book’s …
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Web

UFC Sues to overturn NY Ban on MMA
ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP SUES TO OVERTURN NEW YORK BAN ON LIVE PERFORMANCE OF PROFESSIONAL MIXED MARTIAL ARTS.
www.ufc.com/news/UFC-Sues-to-overturn-NY-Ban-on-MMA

UFC sues New York attorney general – MMA News
It’s called mixed martial arts for a reason. The Ultimate Fighting Championship, the sport’s largest promoter, is suing to overturn New York’s ban on live bouts, …
www.mixedmartialarts.com/…/UFC-sues-New-York-attorney-g...