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Thursday Throwdown: Between the Lines Edition: It may not always seem so, but MMA fighters are pretty crafty fellows. Cagey, even. You think they don’t have anything up their sleeves, but that’s where you’re wrong, my friends. They almost always do, and you [+] Fightmania April Rankings: Although it was a slow month for major events outside of the UFC, with just one Bellator event at the beginning of the month and not much else of note to discuss, there was a UFC every [+] 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 Preview: Two of the most polarizing fighters in all of MMA square off tonight, with UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones defending his belt against Chael P. Sonnen himself. However, a main event that looks to be a [+] The Ultimate Fighter 16 Parting Shots: Another day, another season of The Ultimate Fighter in the can. The UFC’s McReality series keeps on trucking, despite the indisputable staleness of its format, the predictable antics of its rotating cast of anonymous cast members, or [+] MMA Roundup: Strikeforce Cancellation, Guida at 145, Carwin Injury: The last several weeks have been a crazy time for MMA news, with UFC 151′s cancellation, Dana White’s public feud with Jon Jones and Greg Jackson, even more injuries around the sport, and now the cancellation of [+] The Ultimate Follow-Up: Episode 2: The second episode of the sixteenth (!) season of The Ultimate Fighter highlighted a lot of the problems that have led to disappointing ratings in recent installments of the long-running MMA reality series, with no signs of [+] 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, [+] UFC 146: Post-Fight Press Conference (Video): Here’s the post-fight press conference for UFC 146: Dos Santos vs. Mir. Following fighters were awarded $70,000 bonuses: Knockout of the Night: Roy Nelson and Dan Hardy Submission of the Night: Stefan Struve and Paul Sass [+] UFC 146 Preview: In UFC 146 you have a novel event (a main card consisting of all heavyweight fights) that has been diminished more than a little in stature by multiple big-name fighters dropping out for one reason or another. [+]