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It’s not guaranteed a new year will bring change. The Yankees still will win in 2011. The Pirates won’t. LeBron James still will speak in the third person. Clay Guida will have long hair and fight as if intravenously fed with sugar. Rex Ryan will prefer feet.
Frankie Edgar was unable to avenge the lone loss of his career, but he left the cage still clutching the Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight title.
Gray Maynard is a man of few words, and his answers are getting even shorter as he gets a chance to claim the Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight belt Saturday when he meets champion Frankie Edgar in the main event of UFC 125 at the MGM Grand Garden.
Chuck Liddell has accepted the position of UFC executive vice president of business development. The 41-year-old announced Wednesday he was officially retiring from fighting, ending a 12-year career that included a stint as light heavyweight champion.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Ben Henderson insisted he was prepared to handle the pressure of fighting in his hometown in the main event of the final World Extreme Cagefighting card for the No. 1 contender spot in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — The answers sound almost rehearsed at this point.
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