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  • Awards: ‘Fedor vs. Rogers’ By: Jake Rossen



    D. Mandel/Sherdog.com


    The Don’t-Listen-to-Idiot-Pundits Award: Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou, for putting up a better fight than expected against Gegard Mousasi.

    Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Award: Jason Miller, for choking Jake Shields nearly unconscious in the third and thinking the bell rang too soon; and Shields, for getting choked unconscious and not hearing the bell ring soon enough.

    The Unsuspecting Jimmy Lennon Award: Miller, for forcing Lennon to announce his fighting style as “slap boxing,” a comedy routine that remains just as unfunny as when Dennis Hallman insisted on “cowboy karate” all those years ago. (Miller is wacky. We get it.)

    The We-Gotta-Figure-Out-This-TV-Timing-Thing Award: Strikeforce, for bumping the undercard bout between Mark Miller and Deray Davis entirely. Not having an Excel sheet with an event rhythm laid out cost both men wasted training camps. That’s beyond belief.

    Update 11/09/09: Sports Illustrated's Josh Gross didn't pick Sokoudjou to win, as stated here initially. He believed Mousasi would take it. The management regrets the error.

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  • Red Ink: Shields vs. Miller By: Jake Rossen



    Esther Lin/Sherdog.com


    Most of Saturday’s attention will be focused on Fedor Emelianenko, but the product of that hype may last less than a round: a middleweight contest between Jason "Mayhem" Miller and Jake Shields could be the dominant “did you see?” Sunday talk of the event.

    Shields, who has had virtually no problems at 170 pounds, moved up a class in June to submit the dangerous Robbie Lawler; Miller, while never dominant at either class, has a workman’s ring ethic and typically forces fighters to put in their time. Taking two athletes who rarely bend and don’t fall asleep in the guard tends to be worth the watch.

    Wild Card: Miller’s guard: Shields will probably get him down, which means Miller’s ability to contain or shut him down from his back will determine how his face looks after the fight.

    Might Look Like: Shields vs. Renato Verissimo, with Shields dropping air strikes down to an outmuscled jiu-jitsu player.

    Who Wins: Shields is going to have issues with some of the larger middleweights out there, but Miller isn’t one of them. He can negate Miller’s grappling for a decision.

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  • 5 Questions: Strikeforce Edition By: Jake Rossen

    What happens to Rogers on the ground?

    Brett Rogers is being given (slight) chances to beat Fedor Emelianenko based on his ability to punch a hole into concrete; little has been seen of him working the canvas, where Emelianenko is incredibly slick. In his favor: Mark Hunt, a ground novice who clocked in near Rogers’ 280-pound frame for his 2006 fight with Fedor, kept Emelianenko immobile for several minutes. But if all he can hope for is some brief control, it’s less of a shot at winning and more a stay of execution.

    What happens to Emelianenko on the feet?

    A victory is a victory, but for several minutes against Andrei Arlovski, Emelianenko looked uneasy and ineffective.

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  • Mayhem’s Thoughts on Shields, Hating People, Instant Rage & Fedor vs. Rogers By: Lutfi Sariahmed



    D. Herbertson/Sherdog.com


    On Jake Shields:
    “Are we pretending to hate each other? Nah. We poke fun at each other, but whatever. We don't really hate each other. I mean, if you want me to, I can hate him in an instant. The easiest emotion for me to come to is anger. I don't know why. It's always been that way. My dad is the same way. He could be sitting on the couch and just snap into an instant rage out of nowhere, and I can do the same thing. To me, it's not that big a deal to hate anybody. But I don't hate the guy; I'm just going to beat him up.”

    More on Shields:
    “On top of not being able to beat me in a fight, he can't beat me in a damn wordplay either. He talks like a mannequin. The time that we got him on ‘Bully Beatdown’ to say something, he couldn't say anything and he had a script. Some people are made for TV or radio, and I am and I've honed these skills over years of doing it. It's ridiculous. If you want viewership to drop in the toilet, he can host the show.”

    On too much entertaining, not enough fighting:

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  • ‘Bully Beatdown’ Returns for Second Season; SAT Scores Continue to Plummet By: Jake Rossen

    The news isn’t always good in this space: MMA Junkie reports that a second season of the neurally fatiguing “Bully Beatdown” is a lock for MTV’s near future.

    Participants who submit to the “Beatdown” -- allegedly bullies to victims too squirrely to actually fight back on their own -- climb into a cage with a $10,000 reserve: The money disappears the more they tap out or crumble.

    I do not begrudge MTV drawing ratings -- or host Jason “Mayhem” Miller drawing a paycheck -- but the incredibly labored mugging of the “bullies” brings to mind the high-school-level hams of pro wrestling. And that’s hardly a compliment.

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