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Strikeforce’s Roster Moves: Crafty or Bush League?: Randy Couture’s son, Ryan, will not have the experience that many first-timers have when he has his first professional bout. Unlike so many others who opened their pro careers in half-empty gymnasiums, on the undercard of [+] MMA Roundup: Fedor-Werdum 2, Rampage Jackson, Upcoming UFC/WEC Fights: So many times, the Roundup is more about stories peripheral to the sport of mixed martial arts: who said what, who got dropped from someone’s roster, whatever Chael Sonnen most recently said to make Anderson Silva want [+] MMA Roundup: Shields, Sonnen, Toney, Dream vs. UFC: Unquestionably the biggest (and simultaneously the least-surprising) news of the last week or so has been that Jake Shields will sign with the UFC. Of course, that doesn’t mean there’s not plenty else to talk about, [+] MMA Roundup-Fitch, Sonnen, Strikeforce’s Scott Coker: We’ve got a great weekend ahead of us, and the talk of the MMA world is the upcoming TUF 11 Finale on Spike TV. Still, don’t be foolish and overlook this weekend’s WEC event, as the [+] Assessing the Damage from the Strikeforce Brawl: As a person who enjoys the entertainment that comes from seeing crazy, random or absolutely ridiculous things, I was torn immediately after viewing the now-infamous Strikeforce: Nashville brawl.  On one hand, it was unquestionably the most riveting [+] MMA Roundup- UFC Banned in Germany, Fedor, Dream 13, Huerta: This week’s MMA Roundup features news on the UFC being banned from German TV, as well as all kinds of other ridiculousness.  In other words, M-1 is still in the news.  Also, the Dream 13 card is [+] Evaluating MMA Promoters and Agents: The mixed martial arts fan has exactly one interest in terms of following the sport itself: to see good fights.  Sure, there may be peripheral stuff as well, but everything that enters the mind of your average [+] 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 [+]