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Above is the famous incident in which Yoshihiro Nakao kissed Heath Herring during the pre-fight staredown, prompting Herring to punch him and knock him out. Today comes news that Nakao will fight former EliteXC heavyweight champion Antonio Silva at the January 4 Sengoku event.

Jim Murphy at The Savage Science has a great look at Josh Barnett and who he might fight at Affliction: Day of Reckoning.

Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou has been released by the UFC.

Above, B.J. Penn says he wants to beat Georges St. Pierre at UFC 94 because he wants to win the welterweight title against "one of the best fighters of all time."

Eddie Alvarez will apparently be fighting on ESPN Deportes, and even though I don't speak Spanish, now I have to figure out how I can get ESPN Deportes on my DirecTV system.

Tim Credeur has opened a new MMA school.

A good look at the strangest results in MMA history.

The latest episode of The Low Blow rips apart the recent Strikeforce show.

Above, the clip of the week on The Soup is from The Ultimate Fighter.

Some good questions about Chuck Liddell vs. Randy Couture.

An interesting story about Brock Lesnar and deer hunting.

WEC featherweight champ Mike Brown will fight either Urijah Faber or Leonard Garcia as soon as his ribs heal.

Above, UFC President Dana White poses for some pictures for an ESPN Magazine photographer.

Strikeforce full results: Scott Smith knocked out Terry Martin, Renato "Babalu" Sobral beat Bobby Southworth by opening a bad cut over Southworth's eye in the first round, and Duane "Bang" Ludwig beat Yves Edwards by unanimous decision.

Ed Soares, manager for Rafael Feijao and Fabricio Camoes, is still hoping for a resolution to the EliteXC contract mess.

Nick Thompson passed the Minnesota bar exam two days after he lost to Jake Shields in the July EliteXC show.

Tito Ortiz talks about his future, his back surgery, and various other subjects. He says he'll be fighting this summer for either Affliction or UFC. "I don't have no manager, so I make my own decisions," Ortiz said.

Some final thoughts on the hard bargain driven by the AKA folks in the Jon Fitch negotiations.

Todd Moore, who lost to Shinya Aoki at Dream.6, is waiting for his paycheck: "As far as I'm concerned, they pretty much have stiffed us. The fight was Sept. 23, and we're going on into [late November] and they still haven't paid. That's two months. That sucks, man."

The Strikeforce weigh-in was yesterday; here are the results and the photos.

UFC 90: Anderson Silva vs. Patrick Cote was a disappointment on pay-per-view.

Above is the trailer for UFC 93, Dan Henderson vs. Rich Franklin and Shogun Rua vs. Mark Coleman.

Says Georges St. Pierre of his first fight with B.J. Penn, "It was the first time in my career I had lost a round. I already lost a fight, but I hadn't lost a round. I'm a very good athlete, so I was used to winning all the rounds. But after that round, I came back and I was hurt. I was cut under my eye, I couldn't breathe well from my nose, and it was hard. It was a big test mentally to see how I could come back from a hard first round."

Jon Fitch vs. Akihiro Gono is expected to be added to the UFC 94: St. Pierre vs Penn 2 undercard.

The Ultimate Fighter 8 finale card is taking shape.

ESPN's Jon Anik talks to MMA Rated Radio.

The above video, featuring UFC 91 combatants Brock Lesnar and Randy Couture, was an instant hit on YouTube.

Says Couture of getting ready to fight, "I take a rational approach and I have a pretty good idea of what I'm capable of and where my strengths and weaknesses lie and I seem to be able to figure out those same things in my opponents and come up with a plan that allows me to just go out there, relax, do what I need to do, and perform.

Couture's record as an underdog since 2002 is 4-1. As a favorite, he's 2-4.

Big John McCarthy calls UFC 91, "The classic matchup -- probably the most physically impressive man in mixed martial arts (Brock Lesnar) going against the most mentally impressive man (Randy Couture)."

A leg infection has forced Amir Sadollah to withdraw from his UFC 91 fight with Nick Catone; the Dustin Hazelett-Tamdan McCrory will now be televised.

I'm looking forward to the undercard fight between Gabriel Gonzaga and Josh Hendricks.

If Fabricio Werdum is out of the UFC, that's news to him.

UFC 94 tickets are on sale this week.

Will Chael Sonnen fight Anderson Silva?

Be sure to catch Countdown to UFC 91.

Ariel Helwani asks Patrick Cote if Anderson Silva showed him a lack of respect, Cote answers: "I don't think it was a lack of respect. I just think my game plan was perfect."

Kid Nate of Bloody Elbow has the latest installment of his great Judo Chop series, a look at the spinning back elbow.

On one billboard: Randy Couture and Brock Lesnar. On another: Larry Flynt's Hustler Club.

Joe "Daddy" Stevenson got his Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt.

Randy Couture and Brock Lesnar are on the cover of Flex Magazine.

How will Lesnar do against Couture when his back is to the cage?

Paulo Filho is planning to move to 205 pounds.

Says Mike Brown of beating Urijah Faber, "It was a feeling of completion, I got the last piece of the puzzle. I don't plan on it, but even if I lost every fight from now on out, for one moment I was the best."

The California State Athletic Commission will formally accept the resignation of Executive Officer Armando Garcia at a commission meeting on November 18.

Cub Swanson said on his MySpace page that he has signed to fight Hiroyuki Takaya on the undercard of WEC 37.

This guy shows why boxing undercards can't hold a candle to MMA undercards.