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Fightmania Mailbag: Instant rematches, Mir-Cro Cop: Fightmania’s readers can be a vocal bunch, and I’ve got a fresh batch of e-mails ripe for the posting this week before we all get ready for UFC 118. Among this installments subjects are instant rematches, [+] UFC 121 Tickets Sure to Go Fast as Lesnar-Velasquez Is Made Official: It seems like every fight for Brock Lesnar now is a “superfight” that might remind you of the formative days of the UFC, when fans waited for months at a time to see which former UFC tournament [+] MMA Roundup: Fedor-Werdum 2, Rampage Jackson, Upcoming UFC/WEC Fights: So many times, the Roundup is more about stories peripheral to the sport of mixed martial arts: who said what, who got dropped from someone’s roster, whatever Chael Sonnen most recently said to make Anderson Silva want [+] 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 [+] MMA Roundup-Fitch, Sonnen, Strikeforce’s Scott Coker: We’ve got a great weekend ahead of us, and the talk of the MMA world is the upcoming TUF 11 Finale on Spike TV. Still, don’t be foolish and overlook this weekend’s WEC event, as the [+] UFC Fight Night 21 Parting Shots: Placed right in the middle of an absolutely packed spring season for mixed martial arts events, UFC Fight Night 21 provided enough excitement and intrigue to stand toe-to-toe with the other big events of March and April. [+] What’s Left for Cro Cop, Nog and Silva?: In my UFC 110 Parting Shots column, I mentioned that there was a lot to say about the futures of three former Pride Fighting Championships superstars, all of whom now face difficult roads back to glory: Mirko [+] UFC 110 Parting Shots: Depending on your feelings towards Cain Velasquez and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, you may have spent the last half of  your weekend excited for the future of a great young heavyweight, or mourning the apparent decline of one [+] UFC 110: Main Card Preview and Picks: The bout between Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Cain Velasquez tonight will determine more than just a future heavyweight title challenger for later in 2010.  It will also show whether Nogueira may be at the end of his [+] MMA Roundup- UFC 110 Injuries, Nogueira, Arona: The last thing that the UFC wants is a repeat of the injury-fest that was the end of 2009, but we’re off to a bit off of a rough start with a rash of late UFC 110 [+]