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Jun 29, 2009 - 11:00:07 PM By: Jason Bent, MMATorch Columnist
Is it?
Jared Fogle's Old Pants?
Lee Murray's Bond?
The 'Affliction: Banned' Fighter Payroll?
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Or is nothing bigger than UFC 100?
UFC 100 is nearly as big as its coverage and is certainly the biggest MMA event to ever take place. Well, unless you really, really believe that Affliction knocked the ball out of the park with "Banned" and a Megadeth performance. No competent company has ever accumulated this amount of talent and presented them on one card or event, ever.
UFC 100 is the equivalent of Bob Arum, Don King and Cedric Kushner getting together to bring us Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Ricky Hatton vs. Oscar de la Hoya and Wladimir Klitschko vs. Vitali Klitschko with Mike Tyson on hand to ring the bell between rounds. If you want to know why MMA has eclipsed boxing, one only needs to look closely at the UFC and just this past year's events...
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"There's still a large contingent of people, that they just want to see these guys almost die, or the other guy almost die and come back, and sometimes fights are like that. Certainly they are. But sometimes you get technical masterpieces too, and to hate a beautiful, technical fight - you're not really a fight fan...
Diaz has a granite chin, possesses perhaps the best recovery in the sport, his pace and conditioning are second to none and he sets records with the volume of his punches almost every time he steps into the cage. Nick Diaz is simply designed to fight the way he fights, and not many other fighters are...
"There was a lot of poison going on around there and I'm really disappointed because we had a good thing going. It was a good thing and I think people's egos got in the way. Well, not people just Javier, his ego got in the way, and too many cameras in the gym and him trying to build himself up and his brand, his AKA brand...
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