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State of the UFC Middleweights

Filed under: UFCNovember is a month without any title fights, which makes it a good time to take a long view of the future title picture in each weight class. Today we look at the middleweight division.

Anderson Silva just keeps on winning. At age 35 …

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November is a month without any title fights, which makes it a good time to take a long view of the future title picture in each weight class. Today we look at the middleweight division.

Anderson Silva just keeps on winning. At age 35 he’s probably past his athletic prime, and it’s been quite a while since he’s had a dominant middleweight title defense, but the bottom line is that while no one else in UFC history has ever won more than eight straight fights, Silva is 12-0 inside the Octagon.

So will Silva stay undefeated over the next year and remain head and shoulders above the rest of the middleweight division? Or is 2011 the year that the UFC sees a new middleweight champ? We explore the state of the division below.

The MMA Hour With Konrad, Schaub, Harris, Camarillo and Meltzer

Filed under: UFC, FanHouse Exclusive, Bellator, VideosOn Monday’s live edition of The MMA Hour we will look back on Saturday night’s memorable UFC 121 event with MMA Fighting’s Ben Fowlkes. Also:

* We will also be joined by Brendan Schaub, who defeate…

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On Monday’s live edition of The MMA Hour we will look back on Saturday night’s memorable UFC 121 event with MMA Fighting’s Ben Fowlkes. Also:

* We will also be joined by Brendan Schaub, who defeated Gabriel Gonzaga on Saturday night.

* The new Bellator heavyweight champion Cole Konrad, who is also a training partner of Brock Lesnar’s, will also stop by.

* UFC middleweight Gerald Harris will discuss his current winning streak and his upcoming fight against Maiquel Falcao next month at UFC 123.

* Jiu-jitsu expert Dave Camarillo, one of Cain Velasquez’s main trainers at the American Kickboxing Academy, will look back on their title win.

* And MMA/wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer will make sense of Saturday night’s confrontation between Lesnar and The Undertaker.

And of course, we’ll be taking your calls. Give us a shout at: 212-254-0193 or 212-254-0237.

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Wednesday Morning MMA Link Club

(Gesias "JZ" Cavalcante trains like a beast for his fight against Josh Thomson at "Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Noons II" this Saturday. Props: GenghisConFilms)
Some selected highlights from our friends around the MMA blogosphere. E-m…

(Gesias "JZ" Cavalcante trains like a beast for his fight against Josh Thomson at "Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Noons II" this Saturday. Props: GenghisConFilms)

Some selected highlights from our friends around the MMA blogosphere. E-mail [email protected] for details on how your site can join the MMA Link Club…

– Stefan Struve vs. Sean McCorkle Planned for UFC 124 in Montreal (MMA Fighting)

– Ed Soares’ Dream for Jose Aldo? Super-Fight Against Frankie Edgar (Versus MMA Beat)

– Gina Carano Lands Her Next Major Movie Role, and More Juicy Rumors (MiddleEasy)

– Is Bad Sportsmanship Just Part of the MMA Fight Game? (Five Ounces of Pain)

– Gerald Harris and Phil Davis Get Main Card Slots at UFC 123, Karo Parisyan and Tyson Griffin Stuck in the Prelims (Heavy.com/MMA)

– Nevada State Athletic Commission Makes Half-Baked Changes To Drug Testing Policy (Watch Kalib Run)

– 5 Fights You Shouldn’t Miss This October (LowKick)

– Is Frankie Edgar the #2 P4P Fighter in the World? Dana White Thinks So… (MMA Convert)

– Crazy Slugfest from K-1 MAX Grand Prix (MMA Scraps)

– Jake Shields: The Specialist [VIDEO] (FightMagazine)

Gerald Harris to Get Fourth-Straight Octagon Newbie at UFC 123

(None shall pass. / Props: geraldhurricaneharris.com)
Since returning to the UFC following his TUF 7 stint in 2008, UFC middleweight standout Gerald Harris has gone 3-0, with all fights ending in KO/TKO, and all fights taking place against …

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(None shall pass. / Props: geraldhurricaneharris.com)

Since returning to the UFC following his TUF 7 stint in 2008, UFC middleweight standout Gerald Harris has gone 3-0, with all fights ending in KO/TKO, and all fights taking place against New Guys. In what has to be some sort of freakin’ record, Harris will welcome another UFC first-timer to the Octagon at UFC 123 (November 20, Auburn Hills). As first reported by Tatame and confirmed today by UFC.com, Harris is slated to face Maiquel Jose "Big Rig" Falcao Goncalves, a 25-3 Chute Boxe product with 21 wins by KO/TKO, whose last seven fights resulted in first-round stoppage victories. That’s a scary resume, to be sure. Still, let’s recap the devastation that Gerald Harris has inflicted on folks who tried to make a good first impression in the UFC:

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UFC 118’s Forgotten Man: Gerald Harris, The Fighter Without a Fight

Filed under: UFC, FanHouse Exclusive, News BOSTON — Eight weeks ago, Gerald Harris lived his SportsCenter moment. His knockout slam of Dave Branch during the undercard of July’s Brock Lesnar-Shane Carwin event was plastered all over the highlights of …

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Gerald Harris BOSTON — Eight weeks ago, Gerald Harris lived his SportsCenter moment. His knockout slam of Dave Branch during the undercard of July’s Brock Lesnar-Shane Carwin event was plastered all over the highlights of ESPN’s signature show.

On Friday afternoon, though, Harris had no chance of finding himself on TV for weigh-ins, even though he spent fight week dieting, cutting weight and preparing to fight like the 20 other men who marched up and down the scale before cameras.

The reason? After his fight fell though, Harris was a UFC 118 alternate. And after the four other scheduled middleweights passed their medical tests and made weight — in front of the TV cameras, while Harris was stuck backstage — Harris became a fighter without a fight.

“I roll ’til the wheels fall off, so I was hoping until the last minute,” Harris told MMA Fighting on Friday, a short time after making weight. “I was on Twitter like, ‘Someone’s not going to make weight! Come on, someone’s going to be four or five pounds over!’ It’s an unfortunate situation but I’m going to make to the best of it. Hopefully I’ll be back in September or October, whatever [UFC matchmaker] Joe Silva says.”

More Injuries Strike UFC 118 Lineup; ‘Godzilla’ Returns

(Sakara and Etim, the latest victims of the UFC’s brand-new curse.)
After losing Phil Baroni and Jorge Rivera due to injuries, UFC 118 (August 28, Boston) is inching towards "cursed" status with another pair of late withdrawals that have co…

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(Sakara and Etim, the latest victims of the UFC’s brand-new curse.)

After losing Phil Baroni and Jorge Rivera due to injuries, UFC 118 (August 28, Boston) is inching towards "cursed" status with another pair of late withdrawals that have completely re-arranged the Spike TV prelim broadcast. First off, Alessio Sakara has been forced out of his fight against Gerald Harris due to a knee injury. Harris, who was originally a replacement for Rivera, will now face the returning Joe Vedepo, who has won four straight fights by stoppage outside of the UFC since being released in April 2009. Unfortunately, the fight is no longer slated for the Spike broadcast, meaning that Harris will need another dramatic stoppage to get some TV time. At this point, it hasn’t been confirmed which fight will move up to the prelim broadcast in its place.

The injury fairy also paid a visit to Terry Etim, who bows out of his UFC 118 fight against Joe Lauzon due to a broken rib. Lauzon will instead meet — get this — Gabe "Godzilla" Ruediger, the TUF 5 contestant who became a national punchline due to his love of colonics and ice cream cake, and was eventually dismissed from the show for not making weight. More recently, Ruediger has built up a six-fight win streak competing in California, picked up the Tachi Palace Fights lightweight title, and has helped turn Paris Hilton into a killing machine.

We’ll let you know as soon as UFC 118’s lineup is finalized.