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LAS VEGAS -- Fabricio Camoes has long been considered one of the best kept secrets in mixed martial arts, but come Saturday night, that all might change. The former middleweight Brazilian fighter who now competes as a lightweight will face veteran Caol Uno in his Octagon debut at UFC 106.

When FanHouse spoke to Camoes, who's nicknamed "Morango," which means strawberry in Portuguese, due to his love of strawberry yogurt, at the Wand Fight Team Gym in Las Vegas on Tuesday, he said that while Uno already had a run in the UFC, his time is now. The Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Royler Gracie and Vini Aieta also talked about what it means to finally get a shot in the UFC after competing in the sport for nine years. The video interview is below.

Fabricio "Morango" Camoes will make his Octagon debut against Caol Uno at UFC 106 on Nov. 21 in Las Vegas, according to Uno during a UFC press conference held Tuesday in Japan.

This is the UFC 99 live blog for the undercard fight between Caol Uno and Spencer Fisher.

UFC 99 has started, and the live blog is below.

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Welcome, fellow MMA fans and insomniacs, to the FanHouse live blog of the Japanese mixed martial arts show Dream.5.

Although Dream.5 hasn't received nearly as much attention (at least among American media and fans) as Saturday night's Affliction and UFC shows, it promises to be a great event, headlined by the semifinals and finals of the Lightweight Grand Prix.

Shinya Aoki will take on Caol Uno in one Lightweight Grand Prix semifinal, Tatsuya Kawajiri will fight Eddie Alvarez in the other, and then the two winners will get just a short time to rest before they fight each other in the finale.

We're live blogging all of it, and the undercard, starting at 2 a.m. Eastern Monday, 11 p.m. Pacific Sunday.

Mixed martial arts has been a global sport for as long as it has existed. The first UFC event featured a Brazilian defeating a Dutchman in the final. The current UFC champions are two Americans, two Brazilians and a French Canadian, and the sport's top fighters outside the UFC include one from Russia and several from Japan.

But while the sport has always been global in the sense that the athletes come from all over the world and fight all over the world, its fans are still segmented by language barriers. The internet gives fans access to MMA news, but there's not a lot of English-language coverage of MMA events in Japan.

A blogger named Suki Kubo is changing that. A 31-year-old woman who was born in Kyoto, Japan and has lived in the United States for six years, Suki figured that being an MMA fan fluent in English and Japanese put her in a unique position to help American fans learn more about what's going on with the sport in Japan.

So she launched her blog, Suki MMA, which translates Japanese MMA articles into English. In the interview below, Suki answers my questions about how she got the idea to start the site, and what the differences are between the way MMA is covered in Japan and in the United States.