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Reminder: DREAM 17 Goes Down this Saturday

With all the buzz surrounding UFC 135, you might have forgotten that DREAM 17 transpires Saturday, and features a pretty stacked card to boot. Japanese legend Kasushi Sakuraba returns to action for...

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DREAM 17 Results: Banuelos, Fernandes Advance in Bantamweight World GP

Aoki vs. McCullough. Enjoy it while it’s still available. Props: FightVieoMMA.com Earlier this morning, DREAM 17 went down in Saitama, Japan. For those of you who have been reading this website for a...

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Kazushi Sakuraba to Dig Out the Ol’ Orange Wrestling Briefs for DREAM/IGF New...

(Human speed-chess: Kazushi Sakuraba and Kiyoshi Tamura put in work at a UWFi show in March 1996. Video via theperfectone) If you’re a student of Japanese MMA history like we are, you know that...

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CagePotato Roundtable #1: What’s Your Favorite Come-From-Behind Win in MMA...

CagePotato Roundtable is a new recurring column in which the CagePotato writing staff (and some of our friends) share their opinions on an MMA-related topic, and hopefully inspire some discussion...

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CagePotato Roundtable #3: Who’s Your Favorite Fighter to Never Win a Major...

(In the heart of the child who made it, the Super HLUK belt is the most prestigious title on the planet.) CagePotato Roundtable is our new recurring column in which the CP writing staff and some of...

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CagePotato Roundtable #4: What Was the Greatest Rivalry in MMA History?

We have a very, very special guest on this week’s installment of the CagePotato Roundtable: UFC light-heavyweight legend Stephan Bonnar, who has agreed to join the CP gang for a spirited debate on the...

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Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Shinya Aoki Reportedly Booked for Next DREAM Event

(Kazushi Sakuraba during his PRIDE glory days in 2005.) By Elias Cepeda What does it take for a person not to eagerly anticipate the next time one of his favorite fighters competes? When that fighter...

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Video Tribute: The Eight Most Insane Moments in DREAM History

(“You’ll never get me Lucky Charms!”) For nearly four years, the Japanese MMA promotion DREAM did its best to carry the mantle of PRIDE, presenting the same mix of top international talent and...

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Killer Highlight Reel Alert: The First Eight PRIDE Events, Condensed to 33...

(Props: Hiten Mitsurugi) CagePotato reader Andrew K. sent this to us with the brief message “The newbs deserve to know.” And indeed, they do. Above is part one of a new highlight series featuring the...

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27 Signs You’ve Been an MMA Fan Too Long

(Image via FAIL Blog, obviously.) By the CagePotato.com Staff You know you’re a true MMA fan when it starts to negatively affect your work, health, and personal relationships. Check out our latest...

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On This Day in MMA History – Kazushi Sakuraba Born Forty Four Years Ago

(Baby Saku – Already cooler than you or I at age 1) If the sport of MMA continues to grow in popularity, decades from now there will be legions of fans raised only on the UFC who will have no idea who...

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CagePotato Roundtable #27: Who Suffered the Furthest Fall from Grace in MMA...

(Taktarov vs. Kerr, as promoted by Bob Meyrowitz. If this doesn’t embody everything about today’s discussion, then what *does*? Photo courtesy of Sherdog.) It was thirty-three years ago today that the...

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The Top 24 Mixed Martial Artists Who Lost Their First Fight

(Renan Barao: Started from the bottom, now he here. / Photo via Getty) By Adam Martin At the UFC 165 post-fight presser last month, UFC president Dana White showered praise upon UFC interim...

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Caption Contest: Win an Official Kazushi Sakuraba T-Shirt From Scramble!

(Image courtesy of Scramble. Buy the shirt for $44.99 right here, or £29.99 for our Euro-homies.) Even today, the name “Saku” can induce feelings of euphoria in old-school MMA fans. Arguably the most...

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Kazushi Sakuraba/Scramble T-Shirt Caption Contest: And the Winners Are…

Thanks to everybody who entered this week’s caption contest to win an official Kazushi Sauraba t-shirt from Scramble! As promised, we’re giving away three t-shirts to the captions that we’ve deemed...

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St-Pierre vs. Hendricks Fight-Picking Contest: Win a Sakuraba T-Shirt From...

Maybe you struck out in last week’s caption contest, but the fine folks at Scramble are giving you guys another chance to win an official Kazushi Sakuraba t-shirt in this week’s fight-picking contest!...

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St-Pierre vs. Hendricks Fight-Picking Contest: And the Winner Is…

(Photo via Esther Lin/MMAFighting) The crazy thing about last week’s UFC 167/Scramble fight-picking contest was the fact that so many of you were basically right, even though the fight couldn’t have...

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Hunt vs. Bigfoot Fight-Picking Contest: Win a Sakuraba T-Shirt From Scramble!

We still have a couple of those awesomely official Kazushi Sakuraba t-shirts from Scramble laying around, so how bout we put ‘em up for grabs in one more fight-picking contest? This weekend in...

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Hunt vs. Bigfoot x Scramble Fight-Picking Contest: And the Winners Are…

(Image courtesy of Scramble. Buy the shirt for $44.99 right here.) Thanks to everybody who entered last week’s UFC Fight Night 33 fight-picking contest! I kind of enjoyed the free-for-all style that...

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Six MMA Trilogies as Pointless as Penn vs. Edgar

(Okay, but can he beat a motivated, featherweight Penn? Photo Courtesy of Getty Images.) By Seth Falvo We here at CagePotato.com aren’t the types to say “We told you so,” which is convenient, because...

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