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Some of the Worst Late Stoppages in MMA (Video): At UFC 159, there was a lot of talk about early stoppages. Let’s not forget, of course, that while early stoppages are frustrating for fans, the evil cousin of early stoppages is actually much worse because of the danger presented for the fighters involved. Take a trip down memory lane with this great compilation of some of the more egregious late stoppages in MMA history. [+] UFC 159 Parting Shots: Alright, so disgusting injuries and eye pokes aside, what do we take away from UFC 159? We had a main event that should likely never have happened, which only leads us to more questions about how the [+] UFC 159: A Strange, Brutal Night: Photo credit: Esther Lin for MMA Fighting After the outstanding UFC on Fox 7, we all wondered whether the next UFC event would be able to maintain the momentum. Well, we now know that UFC 159 was [+] UFC 158 Parting Shots: GSP has done it again. While detractors will point at another fight where St. Pierre didn’t finish his opponent (he’s now at a UFC record at 150 minutes without a finish), we can’t gloss over the fact [+] UFC on FX 7 Parting Shots: UFC on FX 7 provided a pretty good night of fights with one huge headliner between Vitor Belfort and Michael Bisping. A title shot was supposedly on the line, but everyone knew going into it that the [+] Strikeforce: Seppoku Parting Shots: It was the end of a(nother) era on Saturday night, as the latest challenger to the UFC went the way of all the others, going gentle into that good night. Strikeforce, like World Extreme Cagefighting before it, [+] UFC on Fuel 6 Parting Shots: The sixth Fuel-aired UFC event had more star power than usual in its main event, with multiple time UFC champion Rich Franklin facing off against Cung Le in what figured to be a good scrap. Of course, [+] UFC 153 Parting Shots: Against all odds, UFC 153 was a pretty good card. With a main event that lived up to the hype insofar as we got to see the greatest fighter in the sport ply his trade, it’s hard [+] Bellator 74 Parting Shots: Bellator’s welterweight tournament kicked off on Friday night with four very good bouts that set the semifinalists who will take each other on for a chance at Ben Askren. While I’m still not ready to say that [+] Strikeforce: Rousey vs. Kaufman Parting Shots: Another fight, another first round armbar. If she didn’t execute so predictably perfectly and with such consistent, vicious determination, Ronda Rousey might be boring us by now. We’ve already established that nobody’s going to be beating Rousey [+]