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Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - If TJ Grant was going to break, this was the perfect time to do it. It didn’t matter that he had won 13 of 15 pro mixed martial arts fights, including two out of three in the same arena in Montreal where he stood now on April 18th. This was the one people were going to remember, his UFC debut before 21, 451 fans. Across the Octagon stood Ryo Chonan, a fighter who had already sent the likes of Anderson Silva, Carlos Newton, Mach Sakurai, and Joey Villasenor to defeat. Cornering Chonan was one of Grant’s favorite fighters of all-time, Dan Henderson. Now Henderson was telling Chonan how to beat him.

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Mike Russell, UFC - If you were to tune in to a UFC broadcast for the first time, one of the first things to likely grab your attention would be the manic ringmaster in the impeccably tailored suit whose feverish gesticulations and frenzied articulations of the pending event’s participants’ names and vital statistics has the crowd hanging on his every syllable.

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London, England - An army of Brits currently competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship(R) organisation have come out in force and unanimously backed countryman Michael ‘The Count’ Bisping to overcome Dan Henderson at UFC 100(R) on Saturday, July 11 in Las Vegas.

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The biggest event in mixed martial arts history is fast approaching, and there’s no better way to get ready for July 11th than by picking up the UFC 100 commemorative magazine, which is on newsstands and in bookstores now. UFC President Dana White is on hand to break down the card, the featured fighters of UFC 100 take part in an exclusive photo shoot, and some of the best writers in the game take you beyond the Octagon like never before. This is the only official UFC 100 magazine, and it’s as real as it gets.

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Las Vegas, NV - It’s the Ultimate gig in the world of sports modeling, and when The Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) decided to search for potential new Octagon Girls™, it reached out to the only magazine devoted to discovering new beauty around the world: Maxim, the largest young men’s lifestyle magazine in America. The result? A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for attendees of the UFC® Fan Expo™ to be on hand when the winner of the first-ever Maxim UFC® Octagon Girl™ Search is chosen at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, July 11th, just hours before the lights go down for the biggest event in mixed martial arts history, UFC 100.

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Elliot Worsell, UFC - Wolfslair disciple Paul ‘Tellys’ Kelly was never going to back Dan Henderson to beat teammate Michael Bisping. That much is a given. However, it still comes as a surprise when you hear just how unwavering Kelly is in his belief that Bisping will dominate the former PRIDE champion at UFC 100.

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Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - We all know the old adage about ’strength in numbers’, but you have to think that the three young men who tried to mug 6 foot 4, 245 pound UFC heavyweight Antoni Hardonk in Los Angeles a week and a half ago were either very brave or very stupid - or both.

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Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - You know you’ve made it when the stars of stage and screen begin showing up for your events. But unlike the celebrities in attendance at other sporting events, who are there simply to promote a new film, album, or product, or to be seen by photographers, the celebrity fans who show up to see the UFC are just that - fans. And they’re as hardcore as it gets.

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Las Vegas, NV - Rumina Sato. Fredson Paixao. Joe Stevenson. Vinicius Magalhaes. Jeff Glover. Ulysses Gomez. Bill Cooper. To those in the grappling world, the names represent the best of the best. To have them in the same hall together at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center is electrifying enough. To see them competing against each other in four Superfights that cap off the largest Submission Grappling tournament in history is something that could only be held at the UFC® Fan Expo™ on Friday, July 10th and Saturday, July 11th, just hours before the lights go down for the biggest event in mixed martial arts history, UFC 100.

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Michael DiSanto, UFC - 17 months after Brock Lesnar squared off against Frank Mir, the two are set to tango one more time at UFC 100, in what many are predicting to be most successful pay-per-view event in the promotion’s nearly 16-year history.

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