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UFC 161: Winnipeggers Excited for Inaugural Card
In front of a large Winnipeg crowd at The Met, the Ultimate Fighting Championship held their first press conference for UFC 161 since announcing the card back in early March. Tom Wright, Director of
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Let Him/Her Fight?: What to do with MMA’s First Transgender Competitor
Ronda Rousey, the UFC Women’s Bantam Weight Champion, is the face of Womens Mixed Martial Arts. As MMA still fights to be accepted as a sport in cities across North America, its popularity is
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UFC Comes to Winnipeg this June
Early Monday, March 4, Ace Burpee came to my office and asked me if I had heard anything about the press conference at the MTS Centre. True North Sports and Entertainment was holding one
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BELLATOR MMA: How to Survive MMA in a UFC World
As of 2013, all ties SPIKE TV had with the UFC were legally severed. This freed the cable channel up to add MMA of a different flavor to their lineup, namely, Bellator MMA. How
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UFC Should Do What Boxing Didn’t: Strike While the Iron is Hot
On December 8, 2012, silence took over the homes of Filipinos all over Winnipeg and the world. Titos and Titas jaws dropped as they sat there stunned at the sight of what had just
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Five big 2012 UFC fights that never happened
This year has to go down as one of the worst years for the UFC in terms of injuries and how they affected big fights on major shows. Throughout 2012, UFC brass was constantly
Read More »Trash Talk: MMA’s Future?
In his last fight, Chael Sonnen lost via TKO in round two against UFC middleweight champion, Anderson Silva. Shortly after that loss, he announced his move up in weight to the light heavyweight division.
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UFC 154: St-Pierre vs Condit Preview
Last time UFC Welterweight Champion, Georges “Rush” St-Pierre stepped inside the octagon was at the first UFC event ever held in Toronto. It was UFC 129 and he successfully defended his championship versus Jake
Read More »Three Champions, Two Super Fights, One Legend
UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva stood with his back against the cage, hands down, taking punch after punch from “American Psycho” Stephan Bonnar. On Saturday, October 13, 2012, Anderson Silva went up a weight
Read More »UFC IS SHUFFLIN’
LMFAO’s lyric from Party Rock Anthem, “everyday I’m shufflin’” has to be the theme that plays in the heads of Dana White and Joe Silva for most of 2012. Match maker Joe Silva is
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