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Believe it or not, Vitor Belfort‘s trainer Shawn Tompkins says that he and Vitor had been pushing for a fight against Fedor Emelianenko three months ago — and now the opportunity may have dropped in their laps. "It’s Vitor’s way of proving that he is the best pound-for-pound champion," says Tompkins of Belfort’s desire to face the Last Emperor. The Xtreme Couture striking coach tries to convince Steve Cofield that going from Jorge Santiago to Fedor Emelianenko isn’t that big of a stylistic change for Vitor, but acknowledges that Fedor probably isn’t too nervous about the last-minute opponent-switch.
Also, fighting Emelianenko is far from a lost cause: "[Fedor's fight against Andrei Arlovski] really showed a lot of the kink in Fedor’s armor. Whether Fedor believes it or not, he doesn’t deal well with speed, and he doesn’t deal well with getting hit…it’s going to be hard to keep up to Vitor’s pace." And as for their previous refusal to take on Gegard Mousasi at light-heavyweight? Tompkins drops some real-talk on us: "What does Mousasi do for us in America? If Affliction sticks around, we’d like to renew our contract with them, but if they don’t, we want to go to the UFC. Beating Mousasi does nothing for us, getting beat by Mousasi…it’s not good for us at all."
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Here’s some footage of Lyoto Machida‘s new son, Taiyo. Awwww, he’s such a little pudge-ball! According to this Las Vegas Review Journal profile, Taiyo is already hard at work in the gym. Future UFC 400 headliner?
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Another video of BJ Penn training hard for UFC 101, this time featuring the Prodigy jumping off a really high diving board. You are so dead, Kenny…
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Global Sports Fraternity correspondant Isiah Jones goes to the 2009 ESPYs and gets his mic in front of Gina Carano, Cris Cyborg, and the Iron Shiek, who insists that Hulk Hogan is "a gay."
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So BJ is showing us he knows how to take a dive?
And those Kinks in Fedor’s armor, they wouldn’t happen to be singing Superman, would they?