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Taken outside of the Nationwide Arena after UFC 82 was over. This dude was actually on crutches, which took some of the edge off his look. Still, the ubiquitous Liddell-hawk wasn't my favorite hairstyle from the weekend. That honor goes to a gentleman I saw at the airport on Sunday...

Again, at the Arnold Classic, marveling at the power-lifters and their bloated legs. Nearby, Jose Canseco and Triple H were shilling for something or other. This guy caught my eye for his Liddell-Hawk with just the hint of a prehensile rat-tail.

Here's one of the dudes waiting in line to meet Houston Alexander, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, and Sam Stout at the UFC booth at Saturday's Arnold Classic, a multi-sport athletic competition and fitness convention held in Columbus every year. On the way to the Greater Columbus Convention Center, my West Indian cab driver told me he'd actually caught a glimpse of Arnold himself that morning, coming out of his hotel: "He looked great. He looks about 250, 280 pounds, and he had no wrinkles. The man is 60 years old. My father is 60. He doesn't look like that." I asked him what he thought Arnold's secret was for staying so youthful. "Steroids and buttocks," he said. I think he was trying to say "botox," but he could have just as easily meant "getting tons of ass."

It would not be the last time I spotted this haircut...

(Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou, who has knocked out fourteen men with his razor-sharp dreads in unsanctioned no-holds-barred matches in Cameroon, trains to kick L(R?)yoto Machida's ass at UFC 79.)