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MMA Roundup: Dream New Year’s Card, Leben Suspended: There’s been a deluge of MMA news over the past few days, and as a pleasant surprise, much of it has to do with the actual sport itself and not so much the other crap. Dream’s New [+] Smart Move Dropping Overeem?: It’s not every day that you see a legitimate top ten fighter simply get released from his contract all of a sudden. It’s even less often that said fighter is the current champion of his former [+] Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum Parting Shots: Well, at least it wasn’t a pay-per-view! A strong-looking card gave way to one-sided thrashings and a bizarre main event that left nobody satisfied, except maybe die-hard Alistair Overeem fans who don’t care how he advances [+] Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum Preview: The second half of the opening round of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix kicks off tonight, with the Alistair Overeem, the promotion’s heavyweight champion, among those in action. Among several heavyweight bouts is a lightweight tilt [+] 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 [+] Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery Parting Shots: Strikeforce pretty much “won” last weekend in the MMA world simply by actually carrying through with their event as planned. If you aren’t the UFC, simply surviving seems to be a pretty good indicator that you [+] Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery Preview and Picks: The MMA shows keep coming as we move further into 2010, and Strikeforce will try to erase the bad memories from their Nashville show with a long-awaited title defense by Alistair Overeem tonight. Some other good [+] Strikeforce’s Heavyweight Division Still a Mess: MMA is a lot different than boxing in many respects, including when it comes to the importance of the heavyweight division.  While boxing’s popularity can vary wildly based on the quality of its heavyweights, the “money” divisions [+] MMA Roundup- Arlovski, Fedor, Couture: Before the weekend is officially over, the weekly MMA Roundup will run down the latest MMA news from the past week, along with my own personal and completely biased commentary on all the week’s major events.  This [+] Getting To Know Brett Rogers (Video): A recap of the recent triumphs that have brought Brett “The Grim” Rogers to the pinnacle of his career – a primetime Strikeforce match against Fedor Emelianenko. [+]