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May 28, 2009 Mixed Martial Arts Should Be an Olympic Sport: Lost amid a lot of the UFC 98 hype and other MMA news last week was an interesting opinion voiced by none other than Dana White.  Dan Patrick interviewed the always-controversial UFC president last week and asked [+] May 28, 2009 Dos Santos wants to fight Lesnar: Junior Dos Santos (8-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) is keen on a fight against UFC heavyweight champions Brock Lesnar. Dos Santos believes he can outbox Lesnar, who he believes has won the belt too early in his mixed [+] May 28, 2009 Trigg returns to the UFC: Frank Trigg (19-6) has announced that he has signed a four-fight deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Trigg’s last fight for the organization was four years ago and he lost two fights against Matt Hughes for the [+] May 27, 2009 The Ultimate Fighter: USA vs UK Episode 9 Recap: On the last episode, Jason Pierce was tossed out of the competition by Dana White for his health issues, and Jason Dent beat Jeff Lawson to advance to the next round.  This time, we’ll find out who [+] May 27, 2009 Faber focused on revenge: Urijah Faber is confident he is a better fighter than Mike Brown ahead of their fight at WEC 41. Faber lost their last meeting at WEC 36 and is now looking for revenge. Faber told InsideFights.com: “I [+] May 27, 2009 Hughes earns $260K from UFC 98 win: Matt Hughes earned $260,000 for his win over Matt Serra at UFC 98. Lyoto Machida and Rashad Evans did both earn $200,000 for their fight at the recent UFC event. The payments from UFC 98 as verified [+] May 26, 2009 Cro Cop Faces Many Challenges in UFC Return: Amidst all of the news, announcements and coverage that always accompanies a UFC event, there was a news story last week that slid under the radar a bit.  Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic, who at one time was [+] May 26, 2009 Horodecki to fight Lauzon at Affliction III: Chris Horodecki (12-1) will fight Dan Lauzon (14-2) at Affliction III in August. The fight between the two lightweights was originally set to be at Affliction’s January event but has instead been moved to Affliction III, according [+] May 26, 2009 Hughes sees himself as a title contender: Matt Hughes insists he still sees himself as a contender for the welterweight title, following his decision win over Matt Serra at UFC 98. The fight between Hughes and Serra was named Fight of the Night and [+] May 26, 2009 UFC 98 Thoughts and Reactions: UFC 98 is in the books, and we have a new light heavyweight champion in Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida.  Several other fighters turned in impressive performances as well, and a long-standing grudge match was finally settled in [+]