Friday Afternoon Link Dump: Coast Into the Weekend

(Everyone’s a suspect, but only one man will admit it on Inside MMA tonight) (Video courtesy InsideMMA/HDNet)
Tune into tonight’s episode of HDNet’s Inside MMA for an interesting episode that focuses on the use of performance enhancing drugs in MMA….


(Everyone’s a suspect, but only one man will admit it on Inside MMA tonight)


(Video courtesy InsideMMA/HDNet)

Tune into tonight’s episode of HDNet’s Inside MMA for an interesting episode that focuses on the use of performance enhancing drugs in MMA.  Dennis Hallman shocks the panel with his revelation that at least 50% of fighters are on the juice and a UFC Hall of Famer will admit his past steroid use on the show.

Place your bets on whether it’s Ken Shamrock, Mark Coleman, Royce Gracie or more likely Dan Severn, who just happened to retire in April and is likely shopping around for a publisher for his biography.

How crazy would it be if it’s Randy or Chuck?

– James Toney has tapped out "King" Mo Lawal in training. (Middle Easy)

-Video Renato"Babalu" Sobral is mean, crazy, and hungry. (Fight Magazine)

– Carlo Prater set to take on Ryan Ford at TFC 11. (TopMMANews)

– July 23 Kaufmann-Modafferi title fight official. (MMAFighting)

– Dean Lister training James Toney in BJJ. (MMAFighting)

– King Mo’ wants Shogun. (Tatame)

– The pros weight in on Liddell-Franklin. (Sherdog)

– Girlfriend deletes boyfriend’s Warcraft characters. Tantrum ensues. (Break)

– Dating red flag of the week: Daddy’s girl. (Asylum)

– A-Team review. (ScreenJunkies)

– How to put together a burglary kit (MadeMan)

– 25 pictures of the USC song girls (HolyTaco)

– LOL race pics (AllLeftTurns)

– Should the Lakers trade Bynum for Bosh? (ScoresReport)

– Little kids light up with no adults in sight (NothingToxic)

– Parenting fail. (FailBlog)

Dana White’s UFC 115 Video Blog Number One

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The UFC takes its traveling roadshow to Vancouver, in spite of some friction from residents and the city who seem a tad bit opposed to the Octagon invasion in their city.
(photo courtesy Esther Lin/allelbows.com)
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The UFC takes its traveling roadshow to Vancouver, in spite of some friction from residents and the city who seem a tad bit opposed to the Octagon invasion in their city.


(photo courtesy Esther Lin/allelbows.com)

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Dana White Tells Josh Koscheck to Shut Up About Olympic-Style Drug Testing

(I do this because I love you, Josh.)At yesterday’s pre-UFC 115 press conference, UFC president Dana White pulled no punches while expressing his opinion of Josh Koscheck’s recent suggestion that Olympic-style drug testing should be used in the we…


(I do this because I love you, Josh.)

At yesterday’s pre-UFC 115 press conference, UFC president Dana White pulled no punches while expressing his opinion of Josh Koscheck’s recent suggestion that Olympic-style drug testing should be used in the weeks leading up to his end of year showdown with Georges St-Pierre.

"I think that’s what an athletic commission is for. The athletic commissions have been around for a long time. When fighters start talking about other guys being drug tested? Shut up. Worry about you. It’s been a long time since somebody [on our roster] tested positive for steroids. When we first took over, guys were popping here and there and I said, ‘You have to be a moron to do steroids in this sport.’ It’s just dumb."

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Bellator 20 Recap: Bellator Goes Hollywood, Loses Its Damn Mind

 
(Bellator Savings and Loans? I’m not familiar with that bank, Mr. Curran. We’ll have to put a hold on that check)
By DL “Colorful Prose” Richardson
As the second season of Bellator draws to a close, we get less of the …

 


(Bellator Savings and Loans? I’m not familiar with that bank, Mr. Curran. We’ll have to put a hold on that check)

By DL “Colorful Prose” Richardson

As the second season of Bellator draws to a close, we get less of the tournament battles and more of the feature bouts and tryout fights. That’s not necessarily a complaint: fighters can put on some captivating performances when there’s a lot on the line, and we’ve seen it already this season. Tonight, the main event is the final of the 155 pound tournament, but there’s considerable buzz around the stateside return of Megumi Fujii. Fujii, who came in at 19-0, is considered one of, if not the, top pound for pound women’s fighters. Bellator rounds out the live show with a heavyweight bout with a potential invitation to next season’s tournament on the line.
Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly, and I’ll tell you what went down, what I think about it, and the secret ingredient to in El Famous Burritos.

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Happy Friday, Potato Nation; Your Dads Got You a New Podcast

(Dial in and tune out. That’s what we did when we made the show)

Grab yourselves a cup of coffee or mushroom tea and settle in with us for the next hour and a half and give this thing a listen.
Depending on the reception, The Bum Rush Radio Show c…


(Dial in and tune out. That’s what we did when we made the show)

Grab yourselves a cup of coffee or mushroom tea and settle in with us for the next hour and a half and give this thing a listen.

Depending on the reception, The Bum Rush Radio Show could become a regular feature here on the site.
 

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Shogun Sidelined Indefinitely After Undergoing His Third Knee Surgery in the Past Three Years

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Dana White told MMAJunkie today that the UFC’s light heavyweight belt may be put on ice for a good portion of 2010 as champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua recovers from a recent knee surgery to repair an injury inc…

 
(Thumbs up for morphine.)

Dana White told MMAJunkie today that the UFC’s light heavyweight belt may be put on ice for a good portion of 2010 as champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua recovers from a recent knee surgery to repair an injury incurred during his fight with Lyoto Machida at UFC 113 last month.

"He just got out of the hospital; it was a successful surgery," White said. "He had the surgery in [Los Angeles], and he’s going to be doing all his therapy in (Las) Vegas. So he’ll be in Vegas for the next five weeks."

Despite reports by MMA Live that the Universidade de Luta fighter had incurred the injury training for the bout, the UFC president asserts that the injury definitely happened during the fight.

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