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November 29, 2009 Mir hits out at Kongo’s ground game: Frank Mir believes Cheick Kongo has the UFC’s worst heavyweight on the ground. Mir who is a Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt is set to fight Kongo at UFC 107. “Obviously his wrestling is not the best [+] November 28, 2009 Wanderlei Silva will fight anyone the UFC offer him: Brazilian legend Wanderlei Silva insists he is ready to fight anyone that the UFC offer him. Silva insists the MMA promotion does not need to offer him second options. Silva will fight Mike Bisping instead of Yoshihiro [+] November 28, 2009 Maia backs Dos Santos for bright UFC future: Demian Maia believes Junior ‘Cigano’ dos Santos is a future UFC champion. Maia is training with Dos Santos, Rodrigo ‘Minotauro’ Nogueira and Rogerio Nogueira ahead of this fight with Dan Miller at UFC 109, which takes place [+] November 27, 2009 Nogueira to fight Velasquez in Australia: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira’s highly anticipated heavyweight bout with Cain Velasquez is expected to take place in Australia at UFC 110. MMAjunkie.com says their sources claim the UFC is reportedly interested in booking the fight for the event [+] November 27, 2009 Fabiano to face Gomez at WEC 46: Wagnney Fabiano is likely to face bantamweight Frank Gomez at WEC 46 in January, according to MMAjunkie.com. Their sources says Fabiano is ready to drop from featherweight to the 135-pund class, following his Nova Uniao teammate Jose [+] November 26, 2009 BJ Penn confident ahead of title defence against Sanchez: BJ Penn is confident ahead of his UFC 107 lightweight title defence against Diego Sanchez in December. Sanchez is expected to pose problems for Penn, but The Prodigy is confident and feels like he has ‘already won’ [+] November 26, 2009 Gonzaga pulls out of UFC 108: Gabriel Gonzaga has pulled out of UFC 108 due to a staph infection, according to reports. Yahoo! Sports claims that their sources with the UFC have confirmed the news of the Brazilian fighter’s withdrawal from the event. [+] November 19, 2009 Kimura: Joint lock submission hold applied to cause a tapout. When used, the shoulder is hyper flexed or hyper rotated, which causes extreme pain and often leads to a tapout. [+] November 19, 2009 Guillotine: Guillotine, or Guillotine Choke is an MMA move that is a favorite of the jiu-jitsu fighter who is fighting a wrestling opponent who many be limited in their MMA experience.A guillotine type choke very often takes place [+] November 19, 2009 Clinch: A clinch hold, which is also called clinching, is one of various holds that are called grappling holds, used in clinch type fighting and used in order to control the opponenet in the fight. In wrestling matches [+]