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Anderson Silva: The Best Ever: Predictably enough, a violent sport like mixed martial arts attracts some pretty volatile, passionate fans. That’s great in most cases, and part of the reason that the sport has survived is because of MMA nerds like [+] Tito Ortiz:The Last Laugh?: Let’s go back eight years ago to July, 2003. Randy Couture had just defeated Chuck Liddell for the interim UFC Light Heavyweight Championship, while Wanderlei Silva hadn’t lost in over three years and was in the [+] Top 10 MMA Comebacks: Kudos to Cheick Kongo for pulling off a ridiculous (and instantaneous) comeback against Pat Barry last night and taking our minds off of Nategate for now. Nate Marquardt is supposedly giving us some pertinent info tomorrow, [+] MMA Struggling to Survive in Japan: To many viewers, Japanese MMA seems an eccentric area of the sport, prone to fantastic mismatches, over-promotion of Japanese fighters instead of an emphasis on diversity and of course, the spectacle we’ve come to expect from organizations [+] Fightmania Mailbag: Ranallo’s Hair, Michael Bisping: In this week’s mailbag, we’ll talk about only the most important topics in the MMA world. What fights should have happened, but didn’t? Why am I always hating on Michael Bisping? And what in [+] The Reinvented Fighter: Fighters are always trying to reinvent themselves- particularly after a tough loss or a string of poor performances. Competitors like Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic are prime examples of how it is almost necessary for a fighter [+] Ten MMA Upsets to Remember: If Dan Hardy wants to shock the world (and trust me, he does), he will be looking to emulate some of the fighters on this very list, who have done so in the past.  It could be [+] How MMA Can Better Utilize Aging Fighters: Out of Ken Shamrock’s last five UFC performances (his only such appearances after 1996), four were losses.  Three of those came to Tito Ortiz, and another to Rich Franklin, who was just about to win the UFC [+] 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 [+] The History of MMA: Last time, we talked about the organizations of MMA in a sort of beginner’s guide to the sport.  This time, we’ll go over the major events in the history of MMA itself.  Of course, there’s no way [+]