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February 18, 2010 Nogueira will not fight with Dos Santos: Rodrigo Nogueira has ruled out a fight with fellow Brazilian heavyweight Junior Dos Santos. Nogueira insists he is not interested in fighting ‘his friends’. Nogueira does not expect his brother Rogerio to ever fight Anderson Silva either. [+] February 18, 2010 Fedor claims ‘something is broken in CroCop’: Russian MMA superstar Fedor Emelianenko claims ‘something is broken’ in his former PRIDE FC rival Mirko ‘CroCop’ Filipovic. Since joining the UFC, Filipovic has struggled and failed to live up to his reputation from his days at [+] February 17, 2010 Must-Win Situations: The term “must-win” has become all-too commonplace in sports in general and mixed martial arts in particular. It’s unfortunate that so many have used the term inappropriately that it has lost much of its meaning, because [+] February 17, 2010 Barnett plans MMA return in 2010: MMA heavyweight Josh Barnett is planning to resume his career in 2010. Barnett tested positive for steroids in June 2009, something that forced Affliction to cancel their show and close their promotion. “Definitely something’s going to happen [+] February 17, 2010 Fedor would like to fight Lesnar: Strikeforce superstar Fedor Emelianenko admits he would be keen to fight UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar. But when asked if he would like to fight Lesnar and Bob Lashley, he had to be reminded who Lesnar was. [+] February 16, 2010 Opportunity Knocks: When it became known last week that Vitor Belfort had been forced to withdraw from his title fight against Anderson Silva at UFC 112 due to a shoulder injury, you couldn’t be blamed for thinking, “not again”. [+] February 16, 2010 Wanderlei Silva admits he needs a win: Brazilian MMA star Wanderlei Silva admits he badly needs a win when he face Michael Bisping at UFC 110 on Saturday. Silva has had a run of bad form recently in the UFC. “This is a new [+] February 16, 2010 Werdum wants Wanderlei to knock out Bisping: Fabricio Werdum has backed fellow Brazilian, Wanderlei Silva, to knock out British MMA star Michael Bisping at UFC 110. Werdum and Renato “Babalu” Sobral have been part of Silva’s training camp for the fight. Werdum said in [+] February 15, 2010 Anderson Silva happy with “interesting” matchup: UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva admits he is happy with his new opponent for the UFC 112. Silva was set to fight Vitor Belfort for the title, but he was forced to withdraw from the planned bout [+] February 15, 2010 Bisping confident ahead of UFC 110: British MMA star Michael Bisping is confident ahead of his fight with Brazilian legend Wanderlei Silva at UFC 110. If Bisping manages to beat Silva he will move closer to a shot at middleweight title holder Anderson [+]