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Thursday Throwdown: Slow News Week Edition: I’ll be upfront, unlike just about any other MMA website you’ll come across. Some days, there isn’t much to talk about, but the talk has to keep on coming, nonetheless. Today is pretty much the latest in [+] 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 [+] UFC 156 Parting Shots: At UFC 156, we got the first of many promised superfights between champions (or former champions, in Frankie Edgar’s case) in separate divisions. Edgar, of course, was not able to pry the UFC Featherweight Championship from Jose [+] 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 [+] UFC 153 Preview: It’s amazing to think that after over ten years of Zuffa owning not only the UFC, but for a time the WEC and now Strikeforce, events were never canceled due to injuries or changes that made a [+] Fightmania December Rankings: December exemplified the rest of 2011, meaning that there were plenty of big events, along with some surprising results and dominant performances, too. While some fighters, such as Jon Jones, have a firm grasp on the top [+] UFC 141 Preview: Is it literally the biggest UFC fight of all time, as the promotion has been insisting? Well, I think Tim Sylvia and Gan McGee would beg to differ, but I don’t think many of us would rather [+] Nick Diaz Didn’t “Retire” BJ Penn: So first of all, let’s assume that BJ Penn’s decision to retire at UFC 137 actually holds up. Considering that it seemed to be a spur-of-the-moment decision based upon the result of the fight, as well as [+] MMA Roundup: Phil Davis Injured, Machida, BJ Penn: In the sport of mixed martial arts, injuries are like hemorrhoids, being that they are a pain in the ass to all of us who follow the fight game. That’s really where the similarities end, so [+] MMA Roundup: Strikeforce, Penn-Fitch 2, Bellator: The number one story of the last several days (and of the last few years) was definitely Zuffa’s purchase of Strikeforce. While the purchase will undoubtedly lead to a lot of changes in the future, the [+]