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That MMA Guy: Most Exciting Matchups of UFC 132

From here on out, the UFC is going to have some huge pay-per-views.Future fights fights include Rashad Evans battling Phil Davis, Anderson Silva fighting Yushin Okami for the second time, Jon Jones defending his belt against Rampage Jackson, the rubber…

From here on out, the UFC is going to have some huge pay-per-views.

Future fights fights include Rashad Evans battling Phil Davis, Anderson Silva fighting Yushin Okami for the second time, Jon Jones defending his belt against Rampage Jackson, the rubber match between Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard, Georges St-Pierre against Nick Diaz and Junior dos Santos trying to dethrone Cain Velasquez.

With all those great pay-per-views lined up, UFC 132 could potentially be the best card of the year. Not from a huge PPV-buy standpoint, but these fights stylistically have the potential to make this a UFC event no fan will ever forget.

These are the top five most exciting fights of this stacked UFC 132 pay-per-view card on July 2.

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MMA Link Club: Post-Strikeforce Overeem vs Werdum Edition

Bleacher Report’s Weekly MMA Link Club:”Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum” Aftermath: All We Know is that We Don’t Know (Cage Potato) Conor Huen broke his friggin arm last night and still won (Middle Easy) Alistair Overeem Victorious, but Frustrate…

Bleacher Report’s Weekly MMA Link Club:

“Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum” Aftermath: All We Know is that We Don’t Know (Cage Potato)

Conor Huen broke his friggin arm last night and still won (Middle Easy)

Alistair Overeem Victorious, but Frustrated by Fabricio Werdum’s Strategy (MMAFighting)

Fabricio Werdum Beat Alistair Overeem on Official Stat Sheet (5th Round)

Strikeforce “Overeem vs. Werdum” Post-Fight News & Notes (MMA Convert)

“Strikeforce: “Overeem vs. Werdum” Live Results (Five Ounces of Pain)

A Day in the Life of Jeff Monson, Part 6: What’s left for his MMA career? (The Fight Nerd)

Sometimes these things happen in MMA (LowKick)

Overeem Slumps Past Werdum (NBC Sports MMA)

Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix results: Quick reactions to “Overeem vs Werdum” fight card largely negative (MMA Mania)

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Strikeforce Results: Five Reasons Antonio Silva Will Beat Alistair Overeem

Alistair Overeem’s victory over Fabricio Werdum Saturday at Strikeforce Dallas set up a huge heavyweight battle between Overeem, the current Strikeforce champion, and Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva, one of the hottest heavyweights on the planet.The winner wil…

Alistair Overeem’s victory over Fabricio Werdum Saturday at Strikeforce Dallas set up a huge heavyweight battle between Overeem, the current Strikeforce champion, and Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva, one of the hottest heavyweights on the planet.

The winner will advance to the Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix final.

With the UFC’s parent company having recently purchased Strikeforce, and with neither of these men displaying a lot of shyness when it comes to expressing their aspirations for the Octagon, there’s a lot more potentially riding on this fight than a flashy trophy.

This should be a great fight between two massive human beings, but I think Bigfoot is in a good position to pull the mild upset in this one.

Here are five reasons why.

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Strikeforce Results: Josh Barnett and the 7 Best Heavyweight Submission Artists

Welcome back to the big show Mr. Josh Barnett.One of the most experienced heavyweight fighters in MMA, Barnett had been relatively inactive in major promotions for the past few years.With his dominating performance and devastating submission …

Welcome back to the big show Mr. Josh Barnett.

One of the most experienced heavyweight fighters in MMA, Barnett had been relatively inactive in major promotions for the past few years.

With his dominating performance and devastating submission over Brett Rogers, Josh Barnett is back in, what I feel is, a pretty big way.

So how do his submission skills stack up with the other top heavyweights in the world?

These are the top 7 heavyweight submission artists currently in MMA. 

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Strikeforce Overeem vs. Werdum Results: Top 25 Pound-for-Pound Fighters in MMA

What a dud of a main event. Alistair Overeem wanted nothing to do with the ground game of Fabricio Werdum, and Werdum wanted no part in striking with The Reem.This led to a very repetitive main event. Striking momentarily, Werdum shoots, Reem shru…

What a dud of a main event. Alistair Overeem wanted nothing to do with the ground game of Fabricio Werdum, and Werdum wanted no part in striking with The Reem.

This led to a very repetitive main event. Striking momentarily, Werdum shoots, Reem shrugs him off, Werdum pleads for Alistair to come down, and repeat.

In the co-main event, Josh Barnett exposed Brett Rogers by taking him down and submitting him with an arm triangle choke in the second round.

All in all, a less than impressive night of fights.

Notwithstanding, two of the top 25 pound-for-pound fighters were in action with Werdum and Alistair. 

So, did Werdum fall off the list? How much did Alistair move up?

Read on to find out.

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Strikeforce Results: Power Ranking Alistair Overeem & the Grand Prix Final Four

With Alistair Overeem and Josh Barnett putting the first round of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix to rest, there are now four fighters remaining in the tournament.One semifinal matchup will see Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion Overeem face off a…

With Alistair Overeem and Josh Barnett putting the first round of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix to rest, there are now four fighters remaining in the tournament.

One semifinal matchup will see Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion Overeem face off against former EliteXC Heavyweight Champion Antonio Silva. Meanwhile, the other semifinal will see former UFC Heavyweight Champion Josh Barnett meet up with dangerous striker Sergei Kharitonov.

However, for the purposes of this article, we are going to be looking at the remaining field as a whole rather than breaking down each semifinal matchup.

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