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Saturday MMA: A TV Viewer’s Guide
By: Jeff Sherwood
Saturday
6:00 a.m. ET Fox Sports 2: UFC Unleashed
Junior dos Santos defends his title for the first time against Frank Mir; Joe Lauzon and Jamie Varner; Donald Cerrone vs. Melvin Guillard, and Brian Stann vs. Alessio Sakara.
7:00 a.m. ET Fox Sports 2: UFC Tonight
UFC highlights, analysis and interviews.
10:00 a.m. ET Fox Sports 2: UFC Fight Night 33 Prelims
Krzysztof Jotko vs. Bruno Santos; Justin Scoggins vs. Richie Vaculik; Caio Magalhaes vs. Nick Ring; Nam Phan vs. Takeya Mizugaki. From Brisbane, Australia.
12:00 p.m. ET Fox Sports 2: UFC Fight Night 33
Bethe Correia vs. Julie Kedzie; Clint Hester vs. Dylan Andrews; Soa Palelei vs. Pat Barry; Anthony Perosh vs. Ryan Bader; James Te Huna vs. Mauricio Rua; Antonio Silva vs. Mark Hunt. From Brisbane, Australia.
3:00 p.m. ET Fox Sports 2: UFC Tonight
UFC highlights, analysis and interviews.
4:00 p.m. ET Fox Sports 2: UFC Unleashed
Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen
8:00 p.m. ET Sportsnet 360: UFC Fight Night 33 Preliminary Fights
Krzysztof Jotko vs. Bruno Santos; Justin Scoggins vs. Richie Vaculik; Caio Magalhaes vs. Nick Ring; Nam Phan vs. Takeya Mizugaki. From Brisbane, Australia.
8:00 p.m. ET Fox Sports 1: UFC Fight Night 33
Bethe Correia vs. Julie Kedzie; Clint Hester vs. Dylan Andrews; Soa Palelei vs. Pat Barry; Anthony Perosh vs. Ryan Bader; James Te Huna vs. Mauricio Rua; Antonio Silva vs. Mark Hunt. From Brisbane, Australia.
9:00 p.m. ET NBC Sports: World Series of Fighting 7
Georgi Karakhanyan vs. Lance Palmer, Elvis Mutapcic vs. Jesse Taylor , Sabah Fadai vs. Nick Newell, Dwayne Lewis vs. Kalib Starnes Read more -
Strikeforce Primer: Carano vs. Cyborg
By: Jake Rossen
You may find a number of reasons to dislike women’s fighting -- suspect cardiovascular conditioning, lack of KO power, potential emasculation in knowing any of them would whip your Cheetos-cushioned ass -- but there are few excuses not to be excited at Saturday’s promise of an undisputed female champion.
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Joined at the hip since 2007, 145 lb. contenders Gina Carano and Cristiane Santos will finally resolve their status and determine who holds claim to being the toughest lactating human on the planet. You can be reasonably sure Andy Kaufman is very, very glad he never lived to encounter either one. -
Dream 10 Quoteworthy
By: Tony Loiseleur
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TOKYO -- Below are some choice quotes post-Dream 10 that were not included in the notebook on the front page:
“I respect Aoki very much. I like his style of eliminating his opponent’s strengths while asserting his own to get submissions. I’d like to face him -- my striking techniques against his grappling techniques. It’ll be one-hit kill meets certain death grappling. If the fight happens, it’ll be very exciting. I think that the next goal is to participate in the New Year’s Eve event. If I need to fight one more fight before New Year’s Eve, I’ll do it. I think it might be rude of me to challenge him, so maybe I should fight and win a few more fights before I face him. But if this fight is indeed offered to me, I would certainly take it.” -- Katsunori Kikuno on the prospect of fighting Shinya Aoki