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		<title>What&#8217;s Happening Around The &#8220;COUNTRY&#8221;: &#8211; Bellator Signs Four-Time All-American Larkin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bellator Fighting Championships on Monday announced the acquisition of four-time collegiate All-American wrestler Eric Larkin. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.  
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		<title>What&#8217;s Happening Around The &#8220;COUNTRY&#8221;: &#8211; Marshall-Uscola Carries TPF 6 Banner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former World Extreme Cagefighting light heavyweight champion Doug Marshall will lock horns with Kyacey Uscola in the Tachi Palace Fights 6    High Stakes    main event on Sept. 9 at the Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino in Lemoore, Calif.  
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		<title>What&#8217;s Happening Around The &#8220;COUNTRY&#8221;: &#8211; One-time contender Ben Saunders cut from UFC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Ultimate Fighter 6&#8243; quarterfinalist and one-time UFC welterweight contender Ben Saunders received his UFC walking papers.  The 27-year-old fighter announced the news via Twitter.  Although once of the UFC&#8217;s fastest-rising and most-exciting 170-pound prospects, Saunders recently suffered a unanimous-decision loss to Dennis Hallman for his third defeat in four fights.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Happening Around The &#8220;COUNTRY&#8221;: &#8211; The Sunday Junkie: Aug. 15 edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than a week after the event&#8217;s conclusion, UFC 117 &#8211; and specifically Anderson Silva&#8217;s submission win over Chael Sonnen &#8211; was still a hot topic in The Sunday Junkie.  Other popular topics in this week&#8217;s reader-feedback feature are Friday&#8217;s Strikeforce Challengers 10 event and Miesha Tate&#8217;s tournament win, Bellator champ Hector Lombard and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Happening Around The &#8220;COUNTRY&#8221;: &#8211; Week-in-Review: List of UFC, WEC &amp; Strikeforce Matchups Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A complete list of significant new fights reported. Some may be repeated from previous sections:  
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		<title>What&#8217;s Happening Around The &#8220;COUNTRY&#8221;: &#8211; Hughes has no interest in being called &#8216;The Gracie Killer&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt Hughes has mauled two of the Gracies, Renzo and Royce, plus he&#8217;s defeated one their best students, Matt Serra. He&#8217;s usually willing to call guys out, but that&#8217;s not the case with the Gracies and their latest protege to step up, Ricardo Almeida. When he was asked about facing Almeida, Hughes responded by requesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Happening Around The &#8220;COUNTRY&#8221;: &#8211; UFC 117 draws reported 12,971 attendees for $1.56 million live gate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; The UFC&#8217;s first-ever event in Oakland, Calif., &#8220;UFC 117: Silva vs. Sonnen,&#8221; drew a vocal crowd of 12,971 attendees for a live gate of $1.56 million according to UFC officials.  UFC president Dana White issued the figures to MMAjunkie.com following the evening&#8217;s post-event press conference.  The Aug. 7 event, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Happening Around The &#8220;COUNTRY&#8221;: &#8211; Bellator signs four-time All-American wrestler Eric Larkin to lightweight roster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Undefeated MMA fighter Erik Larkin has signed a multi-fight deal with Bellator Fighting Championship, officials today announced.  Larkin, of course, was a four-time All-American and 2003 NCAA Division I national wrestling champion at Arizona Sate University. He made his pro MMA debut earlier this year.  He plans to debut for Bellator as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Happening Around The &#8220;COUNTRY&#8221;: &#8211; Where did Hughes find that headlock? Let&#8217;s ask Dave Schultz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt Hughes choked Ricardo Almeida out cold at UFC 117 with a classic wrestling move, the front headlock. After the bout, Hughes said that it&#8217;s a move that Almeida probably hasn&#8217;t seen before. That is likely true, but wrestling fans everywhere recognized the move. The front headlock was perfected by Dave Schultz, one of wrestling&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Happening Around The &#8220;COUNTRY&#8221;: &#8211; UFC 117 main-card recap: Miracle submission saves champ Anderson Silva</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Heading into Saturday&#8217;s long-awaited and heavily publicized UFC 117 headliner, the MMA world had but one question: Could Chael Sonnen back up his big talk and actually dethrone seemingly unbeatable middleweight champion Anderson Silva.  The answer? No.  But it took a miracle comeback from Silva, who was down four rounds [...]]]></description>
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