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The Ultimate Follow-Up: Episode 3: The 15th season of The Ultimate Fighter (or “The Ultimate Fighter Live”, if you prefer) has hit its stride, with three episodes now in the books. We’ve seen the requisite lame pranks, some nice knockouts, and the [+] The Ultimate Follow-Up: Episode 2: Instead of adding another live blog to the ginormous pile of them littering the internet waiting to waste away out of pure reader apathy, I’ve decided to cover this season’s episodes of The Ultimate Fighter post-mortem, instead. [+] Bellator 60 Parting Shots: Bellator wasn’t playing around on Friday night, kicking things off at Bellator 60 with what should hold up as one of their best cards of the entire season. Three fighters among the featherweight top ten were featured, [+] TUF’s First Live Episode a Mixed Bag: Well, that was something. I suppose when you throw sixteen live fights into a two and a half hour time slot, you’re going to sit back and wonder what in the world you just saw no matter [+] Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey Parting Shots: If you missed last Saturday’s Strikeforce event, you also missed one of the more brutal finishes you’ll ever see in MMA. Ronda Rousey seemed to know ahead of time what was up, warning fans not to miss [+] UFC on FX 2 Parting Shots: Even if you don’t like Dana White, you have to sympathize with him a bit after yet another judging-related debacle last Friday night. “I went through this shit last week,” he said as he shook his head [+] Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey Live Blog: Tonight at 10ET/9CT, I’ll be live-blogging Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey. Make sure to join me as we get the first women’s title match to headline a Strikeforce show since Carano-Cyborg years ago. Other quality fights include Josh [+] UFC on FX 2 Preview: Between Thiago Alves and Martin Kampmann, only one man will take a step back towards the welterweight title picture, while the other one will just take a big step backward. We’ll see the two veteran 170-pounders face [+] UFC 144 Parting Shots: UFC 144 made more out of the UFC’s first trip to Japan in over 100 events than a mere nostalgia trip (though there was plenty of that, too). Besides a great title fight, there were some superb [+] Fightmania February Rankings: Though the biggest story was Frankie Edgar losing his UFC Lightweight Title to Ben Henderson, that was far from the only thing that happened this month to impact the rankings. Who moved up and who dropped in [+]