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NOGUEIRA: JUDGES BIASED AGAINST BRAZILIANS

FEBRUARY 23RD 2012 Rodrigo Nogueira thinks his fellow Brazilians face an uphill battle when fighting in the US. The former Pride FC champion told Brazilian news portal OGlobo that the decision in close fights always, in his opinion, goes against the Brazilians. “Americans have a rivalry with Brazilians, that is obvious. And why is that? It’s because the UFC has three hundred fighters under contract, and from those three hundred fighters we are fifty. The Brazilians are fifty, and we have more belts than they do. “So from three hundred we are fifty, and with those fifty we get there and take care of business. They win (more) because they have more (people), they have a bigger infrastructure inside their gyms, they have support for the sport since they’re kids. But the sport is growing in Brazil and I believe that... “They look at us with (malicious) eyes, let’s say it like that. If you’re going to fight an American in the US you have to win the fight with emphasis because otherwise… You can’t win it by a thin margin.”

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Cesar Gracie Says Nick Diaz Clearly Beat Carlos Condit At UFC 143, Disgusted With Judges

“No I don’t obviously [think Condit won], he clearly won that fight. I’ve been there when Nicks lost fights and have told him you kind of let that one go… But this fight it was very clear. I was kind of shocked when I was in the cage, we were pretty much all in disbelief especially when the judges scores where read… If you repeat that first round five times you’re still gonna lose because every judge had Nick losing that first round, so there was nothing we could have done… In my opinion I don’t think the judges like Nick. He talks in the ring, Carlos was running in the ring and at one point Nick slapped him and told him to stop running. Nick thought it was going to be a dog fight… I don’t know what the judges where looking at. They don’t like Nick in Vegas, they never award him a decision there except the BJ fight and we almost had to kill BJ to get that. I don’t think we can get a fair fight, I don’t think we can get fair judging in that state at all… I don’t know how they scored it that way I truly don’t. … If Nick would have been knocked out by Carlos I would have felt better about it than I do right now” Cesar Gracie just moments ago went on MMAFighting.com’s “The MMA Hour” to discuss his disgust for last weekend’s UFC 143 main event between Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit. The MMA world is still torn in half in regards to who actually won the fight but in the end, the judges, not the fans, coaches or fighters make the final call.

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Fedor wins by decisions over Jeff Monson

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UFC goes Pride FC in epic fights

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M-1 Global weigh-in results

M-1 Global: Fedor vs. Monson weigh-in results

MAIN CARD Fedor Emelianenko (238.3) vs. Jeff Monson (238.1) Jose Figueroa (155.4) vs. Daniel Weichel (154.5) Juan Manuel Suarez (169.5) vs. Alexander Yakovlev (169.8) Mairbek Taisumov (155) vs. Joshua Thorpe (155.4) Albert Duraev (182.3) vs. Xavier Foupa-Pokam (184.5)

PRELIMINARY CARD Jerome Bouisson (153.2) vs. Yuri Ivlev (153.7) Arsen Abdulkerimov (251.1) vs. Alexander Volkov (229.3) Salim Davidov (205.5) vs. Sergey Kornev (204.6) Mikhail Malyutin (152.3) vs. Seydina Seck (155.4) Nikolai Kaushansky (151.9) vs. Alexander Vinogradov (150.8)

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Alistair Overeem enlists Neil Melanson ahead of UFC 141

  The former Strikeforce heavyweight champion and current UFC heavyweight has agreed with Xtreme Couture gym's grappling coach, Neil Melanson, to help him prepare for Brock Lesnar (5-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) at UFC 141. "I can push him really hard on the ground," Melanson said. Overeem vs. Lesnar headlines UFC 141 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The Dec. 30's main card airs live on pay-per-view. Melanson, a catch-wrestling specialist who's helped Couture prepare for several fights, plans to work with Overeem on getting out of sticky situations as well as acting as a sparring partner when they begin work next week. You can read more about Neil Melanson here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Melanson

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Alexander Volkov vs Arsen Abdulkerimov added to M-1 Global’s FEDOR vs MONSON main card Nov 20th

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M-1 Global’s Evgeni Kogan Talks Fedor’s Future, Says White’s Criticisms are “Laughable”

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Boxing Science: How Manny Pacquiao's Body Has Tricked Analysts and Opponents

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Team Takeover On Dana White Following Fedor's Loss