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Following up on the results for Thai Boxe Mania, we've also got videos of the three top fights on the card. Artur Kyshenko vs. Roberto Cocco was a good fight with Kyshenko dominating the action. Yury Bessmertny's KO of Gago Drago is an early KO of the year candidate. Chingiz Allazov showed why he's one of the best up and comers in kickboxing with his dominant win over Erkan Varol

Watch some Thai Boxe Mania...

Somewhere in Brazil, a leather heavy bag is hanging from a gym ceiling and spilling sand onto the rubber Jiu-Jitsu mats beneath it.  The gym owner is frantically going through his utility closet to find a roll of duct tape to temporarily repair the bag before Cris Cyborg comes back to the gym to rip the bag open again with a series of strikes that have rendered more women unconscious than Justin Bieber’s dancing ability.

The former Strikeforce women’s featherweight champion was stripped of her belt after testing positive for anabolic steroids, and has subsequently been going through unparalleled levels of criticism from fans, fighters, and media ever since. This morning, we have also learned that she separated from her husband since December, raising more questions in what may have lead to her most recent downward spiral of negative attention. She had this to say to UOL Esports Lutas:

“After six years of dedication to love and to happiness of marriage, I would like to inform that since December of 2011, Evangelista Cyborg and I are living our lives separately. I'd like to thank all friends for words of support during this period. No matter how hard it feels never give up on your dreams and never give up in love!
A big hug,

Cris”

Props to Bloody Elbow for the find.

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Conor Heun is the closest thing MMA has to a Shaman, a master of the elements, finely in tune with the earth and the energies of the world around him. I've come to grips with that, and I hope you can too, because you're going to have to by the time you finish this interview. Rather than stand atop a mountain in Colorado guiding wary souls gently back onto their lost paths, Conor Heun is channeling his energies into fighting for now, and the next opponent he plans on sharing the cage experience with is Ryan Couture, which will be going down at Tate Vs. Rousey.

We discussed his upcoming opponent, Conor's training regimen and his methods for righting one's internal path via the use of hallucinogens in this interview conducted by Elena Lopez.

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"This is a compilation of some of 27 time Jiu Jitsu world champion Renato Laranja's best moments. Known for his aggressive style of Jiu JItsu, Renato has competed against all the big names and has had an incredible amount of success. He is most famous for his anti-drug views and advocacy of the Gi for use in everyday life and for the sport of Jiu Jitsu." - so says YouTube

I'm a fan of any man who can win the Mundial 27 times. I'm also a huge fan of any man who can rock a Brazilian accent 24/7. Renato Laranja is one of the Grappling Gods' many, many gifts to us lowly ground gamers. Commence mockumentary mode.

What are you waiting for? Watch the Best of Renato Laranja...

Figuring out how Cecil Peoples scores a fight could be analyzed by understanding how well he fares in a spirited session of playing Angry Birds. If a red bird takes out a couple of pigs in one swift swipe of the finger, he looks positively towards the fighter from the red corner. However, if the flight trajectory of a blue bird (the one that splits into 3 separate birds) takes out the entire house of pigs in gratifying display of handheld destruction, the round goes in favor of the blue corner. Whether or not Cecil Peoples actually watches the fights or he’s busy playing Angry Birds is uncertain, but he did give Nick Diaz the 3^rd round, while awarding the 5^th round to Carlos Condit - which at the very least makes the analogy plausible. In a world where that scoring makes sense to anyone, there lives Cecil Peoples and his collection of addicting smartphone games. I suppose we should all be thankful that Greg Jackson isn’t a judge, because in an interview with Sherdog, he says he feels that Condit clearly won every minute of every round; then compares Condit’s performance to Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard.

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Trying to track down the latest round of UFC walkout songs? We’ve got you covered with this recap of all the UFC 143 entrance music choices heard pumping from the speakers during the night’s main card. Once again the entrance song selections offered something for everyone, including tracks by the Deftones, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kid Cudi and Bruce Springsteen. Searching for some new music? Check out the UFC 143 walkout songs below chosen by Nick Diaz, Carlos Condit, Roy Nelson, Josh Koscheck and the rest of the main card competitors. Big thanks to Tracy Lee for the banner pic.

Here's the music...

I woke up at the Lenox Hotel in Boston, MA yesterday and almost ordered a $24.00 breakfast-in-bed.  I’ve never seen a $24.00 breakfast that consisted primarily of eggs & toast; I even called the lobby to ask if the hotel had accidentally misplaced the decimal point on the menu, but the joke was on me for thinking I could afford breakfast in Boston. I motivated myself to spend that $24.00 to return to NYC; where I could buy breakfast for $3.00, eat it standing up, and have change left over for a pack of Trident Layers bubble gum. Back in NYC a few hours later, it was already lunchtime and any aspirations breakfast on January 5, 2012 were replaced by this plate of Pollo Con Arroz. I’m not sure what I’ll learn from this experience, but what’s infinitely more important is that these kids sign contracts under PRIDE rules the next time they want to re-enact a scene from the Bushido series.

Here's the latest from the crazy night at Hardrock MMA 43, the same event that featured fighters crashing through the cage door below this article:

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I think something all of us can agree on is this: at least Condit Vs. Diaz didn't end with them crashing out of the cage and onto the cold, hard Mandalay Bay floor. Who knows what would've happened then? It's important to remember that in some alternate dimension it did, happen. Imagine how crazy those messageboards are, depending on the round that it happened.

February 5th will be remembered as a strange night for many MMA fighters and fans, but no one had a wilder night than these two unnamed combatants who saw their evening come to a very sudden and unfortunate end.

Thanks to Nicholas Cody for the find.

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Get it? Mount Werdum, like Mount Doom...since Roy Nelson hails from the mining cities located deep below Middle Earth?

Last night Fabricio Werdum showed us a new and refined bag of tricks as he absolutely decimated Roy Nelson on the feet, opening up a nasty womb that looks like it's about to give birth on Roy's Dwarvenly bearded face with dare I say it, Uberknees. Big Country took to Twitter to snap a shot of his busted dome that will be greeting you at the top of MiddleEasy.com throughout the evening and up until much of the world awakens tomorrow. Hello from the past.

Notice how Roy is looking at you no matter where you are in the room.

Huge thanks to Tracy Lee for the incredible banner pic.

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Miesha and Ronda, wow. I wasn't going to take the eight hour trek to Columbus from Chicago until I saw this video. I really wasn't. Then I came to the realization that without a doubt this is the biggest women's fight in the history of the sport. Especially looking back on Gina/Cyborg in retrospect (PED's/Soderbergh). These two ladies are going to fight seriously, seriously hard for the title March 3rd, and Miesha only has to last two minutes and eighteen seconds for the announcers to exclaim 'Miesha Tate has lasted longer than all four of Ronda Rousey's combined opponents'.

I typed that with Mauro Ranallo's inflection, so I hope you read it with his voice in your head. If you didn't feel free to reread it. I will wait.

LayzieTheSavage caught up with Miesha in Vegas sometime over the weekend, I'm not 100% sure when, but what he captured was a truly interesting interview with a champion who many have unfairly already written off as dethroned. Watch it. It's a good one.