It can be pretty easy to stay complacent where you're at when people keep shoving money in your face.

Jesse Taylor has bounced between the welterweight, middleweight and even light heavyweight divisions since a disastrous run in the UFC. In recent years, though, he's settled on 185 pounds, and not because he necessarily felt a competitive advantage.

He's followed the money.

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Aldrin de Jesus  Todd Duffee  Marvin Eastman  Stav Crazy Bear Economou  Yves Edwards 

Fans tuning in to the Bellator 69 broadcast last Friday night witnessed a spirited scrap between ferocious 115-pounders Megumi Fujii and Jessica Aguilar. Billed as a bout featuring the top two women in the division, the match-up met expectations with the two going at it for fifteen full minutes and Aguilar edging the Japanese legend [...]

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“UFC 147: Belfort vs. Silva II” takes place June 23rd inside Mineirinho Arena in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Tickets for the Octagon’s return to jiu jitsu country go on sale Thursday beginning at 8PM BRT. Unlike with all other UFC shows, there are no pre-sale periods for UFC Fight Club members or UFC.com Newsletter [...]

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UFC newcomer Joey Gambino has replaced Jimmy Hettes and now meets fellow featherweight Steven Siler at UFC on FX 4.

Siler posted news of the change on his Facebook page, though the reason for Hettes' removal wasn't mentioned.

UFC executives have not formally announced the change to the card, which takes place June 22 at Revel Atlantic City in New Jersey.

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If you've been paying any attention to MMA lately, you know that performance enhancing drug usage is a problem and key issue in the sport. In a recent interview with the L.A. Times, UFC president Dana White revealed that his promotion intends on increasing the amount of testing his fighters undergo in an effort to "save the sport" from PEDs.

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by Michael David SmithManny Pacquiao showed once again why he's the biggest attraction in boxing, dominating Shane Mosley on Saturday night to win a one-sided unanimous decision in the biggest fight of the year.

Although Mosley came out fighting hard with a good first round, it was all Pacquiao from there on. Pacquiao knocked Mosley down in the third and dominated the fight throughout. Technically Mosley knocked Pacquiao down in the 10th round, but in reality Pacquiao fell when Mosley tripped him, and the referee made a mistake in calling it a knockdown. In reality, Mosley never had Pacquiao in any trouble, at any point in the fight.

All three judges awarded it to Pacquiao by lopsided scores: 119-108, 120-108 and 120-107. According to the pay-per-view broadcast, Pacquiao landed exactly 100 more punches than Mosley did (182 to 82) and threw more than twice as many punches (552 to 260).

 

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

The UFC's Hall of Fame doesn't have that many members at this point, which is understandable given a very short history with which to work from. However, it's a Hall of Fame set up at the behest of the organization and not an outside entity on the sport, leading many to not put much credence into it in the first place.

That said, it's still an honor bestowed upon those the UFC feels they want to honor, and as the years go on they'll add more names to the list. One name that's sure to be debated is Brock Lesnar, the unquestionable king of the UFC's pay-per-view business over the last several years.

Some believe that fact alone should put him in any hall of fame for the sport, others point to his pedestrian record and the way he went out of the sport as reasons he shouldn't be named. A least one former opponent, who happens to be in the UFC Hall of Fame himself, is on the side that believes Lesnar should join him there.

"I think he definitely should be," said Randy "The Natural" Couture on Tuesday's edition of UFC Tonight on Fuel TV (transcribed by BloodyElbow.com). "Anybody who's been in there and won the title, whether it be four fights or six fight or whatever. I think he made a huge impact in our sport. I think he brought that whole WWE crowd, too. We saw that in the pay-per-view numbers that he put up, every time he fought. I think it's justified. I think he definitely should be included in the Hall of Fame."

Penick's Analysis: Again, it's an arbitrary distinction, and because the UFC makes the decisions on it I think we'll eventually see Lesnar's name added to the list for the major impact he did have on the sport and the organization. It may have been short lived, but he took the sport by storm, and had a lot of success early on before illness severely affected his life and his performances. Still, there are other names who haven't been added yet that don't have great relationships with the UFC, and until they're added, there's a large segment of the fanbase that won't place any importance on the UFC's hall.

[Brock Lesnar art by Grant Gould (c) MMATorch.com]

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