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The Cut List: Who Desperately Needs a Win at UFC 126?

Filed under: UFCAs former WEC fighters make their way into the UFC, it’s make-or-break time for some of the men who have just barely been clinging to roster spots.

If you’re a UFC lightweight with more losses than wins lately, you have to be looking …

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Paul KellyAs former WEC fighters make their way into the UFC, it’s make-or-break time for some of the men who have just barely been clinging to roster spots.

If you’re a UFC lightweight with more losses than wins lately, you have to be looking over your shoulder and wondering how long you’ll have a job now that there’s suddenly a talent surplus in your division. If fighting in the UFC were like an office job, this is the point where you’d look up one morning and see a bunch of new hires standing around with cardboard boxes full of their stuff, sizing up your cubicle with their eyes.

Join me below as we take a look at the UFC 126 lineup and ask which fighters could find themselves out of work unless they can keep their place at the table with a victory on Saturday night.

Wednesday Morning MMA Link Club

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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…
– Unorthodox W…

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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…

– Unorthodox Ways Front and Center for Jon Jones (Versus MMA Beat)

– After Losing $3.2 Million Lawsuit, Another Former Employee Sues TapouT (MMA Convert)

– Why Vitor Belfort is Fighting Anderson Silva for the UFC Middleweight Title this Weekend (LowKick)

– Four Fight Main Card Official for Strikeforce: Feijao vs. Hendo (FightMagazine)

– The Japanese Comic Book Version of Brock Lesnar vs. Cain Velasquez Is Far Cooler Than the Real Thing (MiddleEasy)

– Bellator Finalizes Featherweight Tournament Field With Addition of 19-0 Newcomer Malegariet (Five Ounces of Pain)

– Sengoku 17 Postponed in Response to Media Negativity (MMA Fighting)

– Outside the Ring: Fedor Emelianenko (MMA-Scraps)

– Boredom Overcomes American Kickboxing Academy (5thRound)

– Strikeforce Champion Nick Diaz Talks Contenders Daley, Woodley (SBNation.com/MMA)

Forrest Griffin and Rich Franklin Would Like to Propose a Side Bet

(VidProps: YouTube/UFC) A week or so ago, when we noted that nearly every claim made in the official UFC 126 trailer was at least debatable (if not an out-and-out lie), the one fight saved from our incredulity was Forrest Griffin vs. Rich Franklin. Ma…


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A week or so ago, when we noted that nearly every claim made in the official UFC 126 trailer was at least debatable (if not an out-and-out lie), the one fight saved from our incredulity was Forrest Griffin vs. Rich Franklin. Maybe that’s because the best hype the UFC could drum up for this bout was to have its voiceover guy dramatically bellow, “Former champions Forrest Griffin and Rich Franklin will battle it out!” Yep, that feels … accurate. But if, like us, you think this meeting between two old warhorses lacks a certain sizzle, you’re not alone. Even the fighters themselves appear to understand this fight needs a little something extra to get people really emotionally invested.

And so Griffin, that mischievous little imp, would like to propose a gentleman’s wager on the outcome of this scrap: Loser gets tattooed.  A bemused Franklin – who from the looks of this vid has spent the last seven months since his victory over Chuck Liddell making sure that lifetime membership at the tanning salon pays for itself – seems oddly cool with the idea. He suggests the loser must get inked-up with a picture of the winner, which to us is a truly inspired idea. Unless you guys have any other suggestions.

Michihiro Omigawa Workout Video

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TOKYO — Take an exclusive look inside the grueling training camp of top featherweight Michihiro Omigawa as he prepares to face Chad Mendes on Feb. 5 at UFC 126.

Omigawa will be making his return to the UFC after a two-year hiatus. In his time away from the Octagon, the Yoshida Dojo product has dropped down a division and has gone 8-2-1 while picking up wins over current top 10 featherweights Hatsu Hioki, Marlon Sando and Hiroyuki Takaya.

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TOKYO — Take an exclusive look inside the grueling training camp of top featherweight Michihiro Omigawa as he prepares to face Chad Mendes on Feb. 5 at UFC 126.

Omigawa will be making his return to the UFC after a two-year hiatus. In his time away from the Octagon, the Yoshida Dojo product has dropped down a division and has gone 8-2-1 while picking up wins over current top 10 featherweights Hatsu Hioki, Marlon Sando and Hiroyuki Takaya.

UFC 126 Betting Odds (VIDEO)

UFC 126 Betting Odds with host Steve Cofield of Yahoo! Sports Cagewriter.com and ESPN Radio breaks down the top 3 fights on the Main Card with expert analysts, Larry Pepe of ProMMARadio and Damon Martin from MMAWeekly. To help you place your bets for this weekend’s big fights, watch the videos below.
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UFC 126 Betting Odds with host Steve Cofield of Yahoo! Sports Cagewriter.com and ESPN Radio breaks down the top 3 fights on the Main Card with expert analysts, Larry Pepe of ProMMARadio and Damon Martin from MMAWeekly. To help you place your bets for this weekend’s big fights, watch the videos below.
Anderson Silva average (-250) vs. Vitor Belfort average (+190)

Watch UFC 126 Silva Vs. Belfort Betting Odds: Anderson Silva Vs. Vitor Belfort on RawVegas.tv


Forrest Griffin average (+140) vs. Rich Franklin average (-170)
Jon Jones average (-325) vs. Ryan Bader average (+250)

Watch UFC 126 Silva Vs. Belfort Betting Odds: Jon Jones Vs. Ryan Bader and Forrest Griffin Vs. Rich Franklin on RawVegas.tv


For a breakdown of the MMA lines from all the major sportsbooks checkout our Odds Side Bar on our Home Page.

Photo of the Day: Vitor Belfort is Almost as Big as Brock Lesnar

 ("Has anyone ever told you that you look like a skinny Brock Lesnar?")
Either his Viking beard made him seem a bit bigger than he was or former UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar has lost a few pounds since losing his belt to Cain Velas…

 
("Has anyone ever told you that you look like a skinny Brock Lesnar?")

Either his Viking beard made him seem a bit bigger than he was or former UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar has lost a few pounds since losing his belt to Cain Velasquez at UFC 121 in October. Keep in mind that Brock weighed in at 264 pounds for that fight and Belfort has to make 185 by Saturday for his middleweight championship bout with Anderson Silva. There doesn’t seem to be a 79-pound difference between them.

Let’s hope it’s because Brock is skinny and not because Vitor is still well above his normal pre-cut weight. The photo was taken on Friday, meaning "The Phenom" *should* have been somewhere between 205-215 pounds.

Having had weight issues on more than one occasion in the past, forcing promotions to allow his fights to be contested at catch weights, it would be a shame to see Belfort pull a Paulo Filho and make the bout a non-title affair, especially if he were to beat Silva.