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The 10 Most Polarizing People in MMA: Fighters like Nick Diaz, Michael Bisping, and even Georges St. Pierre have a strange effect on fans, inspiring undying loyalty in some and almost irrational disdain in others. After Diaz and GSP fought last weekend, it got [+] UFC Cuts Still About Politics, Not Performance: We all know by now that “the UFC is a business”, which has become a catch-all defense of anything that the organization does which makes very little sense in terms of actual competition. A marketable fighter gets [+] Thursday Throwdown: Broken Hearts Edition: It’s a special Valentine’s Day edition of the Throwdown, and every writer worth his or her salt knows that there’s only one way to celebrate a column that happens to fall on (or near) a holiday: with [+] Couture’s Spike TV Deal and “Loyalty” to the UFC: Randy Couture ruffled up some feathers when he decided to sign a deal with Spike TV, which was predictable. Even Couture himself knew that the decision to help out Spike TV by coaching fighters on their new [+] Thursday Throwdown: Chael Sonnen, Eddie Alvarez, NFL Commentating: In case you haven’t heard, the UFC has realized that putting two fighters without marketable personalities, UFC titles to their names or huge fan bases as opposing coaches on “The Ultimate Fighter” is not such a good [+] Groin Shots and Handcuffs: A Weird Weekend in MMA: This past weekend was gloriously packed with notable MMA events. From Friday through Sunday, we had an episode of The Ultimate Fighter featuring the sixteenth season’s runaway leader of “Biggest Douche in the House” in action, as [+] UFC 152 Parting Shots: It felt like it had been months since the last UFC pay-per-view before UFC 152, even though it had only been 41 days in reality. That’s simply the effect you get from getting used to seeing 15+ [+] MMA Roundup: TUF 16, White vs. Jackson, Bellator Contracts: The UFC is really doing the hard sell with The Ultimate Fighter 16 after the last season of the U.S.-based show failed to meet lofty expectations with a live time slot on a new network. As such, [+] MMA Roundup: UFC 151, Bellator, Sylvia vs. Arlovski 4: On a usual week, I’d be submitting my preview for UFC 151, but the last couple of weeks have been anything but “usual”, haven’t they? While the topic of UFC 151 has officially just about been done [+] Dana White’s “Super-Fan” Persona Pays Off: There were a lot of times over the past several years when I had to shake my head at Dana White’s antics. Cussing out reporters, telling regular fans off on Twitter, getting into public feuds with fighters…it [+]