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Strikeforce Challengers went down in Kansas City last night, and as you can see from the video above, it was not a good night for Kim Couture.  Despite some early success against Kerry Vera, "Sugar Free" got rocked against the cage midway through the first and that was all the opening Vera needed to finish the fight.  The loss drops Couture to 1-2 as a pro, with her only win coming against hapless bystander Lina Kvokov after getting her jaw wrecked by Kim Rose.  Kind of makes you think that maybe taking an interest in your husband's hobbies is nice, but isn't enough to base a pro fighting career on. 

In other action, Kevin Casey, the fighter who starred alongside Spencer Pratt in the worst rap video of all time, defeated Chad Vance via submission in the first round.  In the main event, Tyron Woodley remained undefeated with a first-round submission of Rudy Bears.  Full results, and a photo that will make your blood run cold, are after the jump.

(Fabricio Camoes preps for UFC debut. Via The Garv)

- All fighters make weight for UFC 106. (MMA Fanhouse)

- 50 greatest MMA dominations. (Complex)

- Forrest Griffin reflects on his potty mouth. (Cagewriter)

- Dana White weighs in on Karo Parisyan, Shane McMahon and more. (Sherdog)

- Pacquiao-Cotto did 1.25 million pay-per-view buys. (MMA Payout)

- Marcus Davis isn't done hating on Dan Hardy. (MMA Scraps)

- Matt Serra confirms Frank Trigg fight on for UFC 109. (Fight Network)

- Matt Mitrione says he's not even watching TUF anymore. (Fight Magazine)

- Karo Parisyan needs our support, not our disgust. (Bleacher Report)

- Rumble Round Table: UFC 106. (The Rumble)

- Manny Pacquiao would really like to fight Floyd Mayweather. (Scores Report)

- Mother Nature's Punch-Out. (Asylum)

- Why do hipsters love Jim Jarmusch movies? (Ask Men)

- 25 runway models falling down. (Holy Taco)

- Wreck of the Week: Nascar with friends. (All Left Turns)

- How to make the perfect Turducken. (Made Man)

- Awesome Star Wars cakes. (Screen Junkies)

- Soccer player takes an excruciating shot to the pills. (Nothing Toxic)

You know how some people have this magnetic quality to them that makes you want to like them, no matter what they might be saying or doing?  Guys like Jack Nicholson, or that Australian kid who threw the crazy party and refused to take off his sunglasses.  Even when they behave poorly, there's still something about them that makes it impossible not to be on their side.  Josh Koscheck is the complete opposite of that, and he displays it perfectly in this video interview with Fight Magazine.  Here he talks ever so smugly about how Anthony Johnson doesn't want to fight him, how he'd love to take 20% of his purse and then beat him up anyway, and how he fully intends to punish "Rumble" like the UFC wants him to.  It's the high school bully act, and Koscheck fits into the role so easily it's like he was born to do it.

As a contrast, Johnson couldn't find anything bad to say about Koscheck at all.  In fact, he called Koscheck an "entertaining" fighter and said he was "really respectable as a human being."  He said those things before this video of Koscheck smirking into the camera was posted to the internet.  Hopefully someone shows it to him before the fight tomorrow night.  He should at least go into it with a clear idea of the level of jerkitude that he's dealing with.

According to Brock Lesnar's jiu-jitsu coach, Rodrigo "Comprido" Medeiros, the big man is healing up after his surgery and will "be fighting again within six months."  That means Lesnar-Carwin could take place this spring, and there will be no need for an interim title or any other such nonsense.  Great, right?  Only maybe we should consider the possibility, however minor, that "Comprido" is substituting blind optimism for medical knowledge.

If we can believe what Dana White says, Lesnar had a hole in his intestine that was leaking stuff into his stomach.  I'm no more a doctor than I am a jiu-jitsu world champion, but that sounds like the kind of thing that could sideline a man for a little while.  Even if the surgery was completely successful in repairing the problems, Lesnar will probably need to rest for a little while before returning to the kind of intense training that might prepare him for a title defense. 

In other words, let's take this six month promise with a grain of salt.  While it's believable that Lesnar may heal much faster than your average mortal, it's also possible that he might need more time to put this behind him and get in shape to defend a heavyweight championship.  Especially after what those Canadian doctors did to him. 

(Photo by Esther Lin, for Strikeforce.)

Kerry Vera and Kim Couture are set to go at it tonight in the Strikeforce Challengers event in Kansas City.  Since they both share the names of famous UFC fighters who just faced one another, it probably seemed like a genius idea to Strikeforce.  But "Sugar Free" is a Couture in the same way that Ivana is a Trump.  When a name helps that much you hang on to it, even if you didn't hang on to the husband. 

So what do you think, is your interest in this bout harmed by the somewhat disappointing display put on by their male counterparts at UFC 105?  Or does Kim's shiny weigh-in bikini erase all those memories from your mind?  Not trying to juge or anything, but when these girls show up wearing more than you...