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July 18, 2010 Rizzo, Daley Successful at Impact FC 2: The most prominent show of this weekend was hosted down under, as Impact FC 2 held their second show in Sydney, Australia, featuring plenty of UFC and Pride veterans. Unfortunately, many of those veterans consisted of [+] July 16, 2010 MMA Roundup: Shields, Sonnen, Toney, Dream vs. UFC: Unquestionably the biggest (and simultaneously the least-surprising) news of the last week or so has been that Jake Shields will sign with the UFC. Of course, that doesn’t mean there’s not plenty else to talk about, [+] July 14, 2010 Dream 15 Parting Shots: Fans (and certainly, fighters) would like to believe that a win solves everything. However, while the win may remove some of the bad taste from one’s mouth that came from a recent loss, does it really [+] July 11, 2010 Aoki Back to Winning Ways at Dream 15: For those who wrote off the rest of July due to the lack of action in major North American MMA organizations, “tsk, tsk!”  Dream put on a great show the other night, featuring Shinya Aoki returning to [+] July 6, 2010 UFC 116 Parting Shots: We all got treated to a great night of fights via UFC 116, which also gave us a legitimate follow-up to Fedor Emelianenko as the top heavyweight in the world. It’s good that we have plenty [+] July 4, 2010 Lesnar Retains UFC Belt, Seizes Top Ranking at UFC 116: It may have been a foregone conclusion, especially to those who had already penciled in his name for the top spot before last night, but Brock Lesnar is the top heavyweight in the world. He earned [+] July 3, 2010 UFC 116 Main Card: Preview and Picks: Due to time constraints, I’m going to launch right into some quick picks for tonight’s main card fights, since we’re only a couple of hours away. The main card is full of what should be great [+] July 3, 2010 UFC 116 Prelims: Preview and Picks: Tonight is really all about the championship bout between Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin, but hopefully we’ll get a glimpse of more than just a couple of the preliminary bouts during the show, as well. There [+] June 30, 2010 Point Taken: Before the world exploded following a certain fighter tapping out last Saturday night, much of the talk of the MMA world surrounded two fights: Jardine-Hamill and Varner-Shalorus. Besides being pretty good fights overall and main events [+] June 30, 2010 The Fedor Effect: Before we conclude what might as well be called Fedor Week here at Fightmania, I want to take a look at one more thing. Something that I noticed that was even before the Werdum fight, a [+]