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Eddie Alvarez's fade is so technologically advanced, even his eyebrows have fades. The power of the fade is so strong with the former Bellator lightweight champion, that even Eddie Alvarez's thoughts have fades. He'll start a strong conversation and just eventually fade to obscure and abstract ideas. That's deep, folks. That's a level of fade in which the world will never see again. Now you know why Eddie Alvarez is special. It's not because of his remarkable fight career or his impressive wins. Not at all. The only thing we care about is Eddie Alvarez's grooming techniques -- and we're all straight at MiddleEasy. Seriously-ish. Eldar Gross, the director of The Reem, has ventured to a new cinematic project, this time with Eddie Alvarez. Initially, he wanted me to send people to Authentic Sports Management's Facebook page and 'Like' the page which will grant a person access to watch the video. I then told him that a concept like that would never work on MiddleEasy. Our readers are entirely too ravenous to do something like that. Instead, I struck a deal with him to give MiddleEasy exclusive access to 'Eddie Alvarez: Crossroads' for 24 hours, and if you guys like the video, then you will like Authentic Sports Management's Facebook page. I reassured Eldar that even though the MiddleEasy readers absolutely love to prance around the internet and cause havok like Loki in The Avengers, they're an honest bunch and will give necessary props when props are due. So behold, Eldar Gross' new film 'Eddie Alvarez: Crossroads' only at MiddleEasy.com. Don't forget to like Authentic Sports Management's Facebook page if you enjoyed the documentary. Oh, and there will be a new The Reem episode up by the end of the week. Head blown? I know. {iframe}http://player.vimeo.com/video/42128888{/iframe}

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The BJ Penn Vs. Gilbert Melendez fight that never came to be is the hot hypothetical topic to everyone in the MMA world right now, but the MiddleEasy staff was discussing this (at one point very real) matchup in our super secret MiddleEasy email client half a year ago. Yeah, that's right: we have a super secret MiddleEasy email client in which we discuss super secret things. Things like Gilbert Melendez and BJ Penn scrapping for the Strikeforce lightweight title, space plans and why synthetic vitamins aren't good for you (don't eat synthetic vitamins). You can ask Cat Von C: our super secret MiddleEasy email conversations would probably do triple the traffic of MiddleEasy.com, but a lot of that is due to the discussion of things that shall not be discussed publicly. To put it in wizard terms: MiddleEasy email = The Order of the Phoenix. Things talked about in said emails = Voldemort. Many may think the two preceding paragraphs are meant to puff our feathers and display how cool we are. Not true. I guess what I'm trying to get to is this: we were bummed about this fight not happening months ago, and we wanted to share the pain with you - but we couldn't - so now we're kind of over it just as the general public is hearing about it...So yeah. BJ Penn showed his apathy over the Gilbert Melendez situation in an appearance on The MMA Hour. "I guess being a competitor, you always have that itch. But what it is is...it's tough," "The training camps are tough, going through that. I've been with the UFC for ten years going through different things. All the different personalities you gotta deal with. I still look at some of the guys up there and of course being a competitor 'You know, I could beat that guy or I could do well with that guy.' It's just a tough question." "[White] offered a fight against Gilbert Melendez in Strikeforce. We sat down and we thought about it for a little while. We talked back and forth. It was kind of one of those things where I guess at the end of the day we thought about it a thousand different ways and we were like 'Is that downgrading yourself fighting in Strikeforce? If you win the Strikeforce title are people going to say you did it because you couldn't win the UFC title?'" "At the end of the day, it just didn't make sense to us," Hopefully at the end of the day, BJ will decide to come back and make us happy while licking his opponent's blood of his gloves. [Source]

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If America is the land of the free, then why the [expletive] haven't you guys followed MiddleEasy on Twitter? Is it because you're from the UK? Well let it be known that I lived in Cardiff for four years and I'm very familiar with what a pint of cider and black is. Brains is the blandest beer, but it also is the cheapest. For that reason alone, you UKers should follow MiddleEasy on Twitter. As far as the Dutch, I spent my Christmas in the Red Light District and I noticed that there seems to be an influx of baby back ribs in the Netherlands. Every restaurant has them on sale, and I'm perfectly fine with that. Amsterdam, follow MiddleEasy on Twitter. For all you Irelanders out there, I spent St. Patty's Day in Cork, Ireland. You guys have amazing fried chicken, a talent the Irish really need to capitalize on in the future. There's a good chance that you're still reading this, so my suggestion would be to also follow Dan Hardy on Twitter. The guy can tweet about having a powerful craving for cheese and get like twelve people to retweet his innocuous thought. LayzieTheSavage caught up with the welterweight to get his take on the current Twitterverse and the Tweetaters (a non-clever blend of 'Tweet' and 'Haters').

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If I had a dollar for every video MiddleEasy has discarded over the years, then I could afford a better intro to a Top Ten list. Throughout the years, we literally have terabytes of archived footage we've never used on the site. We can't explain it, we just love to shove a camera in the face of people in the MMA industry and hopefully capture some rare multimedia gem. This generally ends up with hours of LayzieTheSavage unintetionally pointing the camera to the floor while he talks about something that happened in Stockton, California that no one cares about. Seriously, if I have to go through another video of him talking about 'the homie that's in prison' then I'll -- well I'm not sure what I'll do. If it happened right now, I would probably go to bed because I'm pretty tired. In any other case, I would do something drastically different that I can't quite figure out at this moment. Regardless, there is no such word as irregardless. People that use the term should be stabbed in the forehead with a plastic fork regardless of time or location. Those same people are also not allowed to check out our new list of The Top Ten Unreleased MiddleEasy Videos You've Never Seen...Because They're Unreleased. I know that you know that we know we have an enormous amount of unreleased footage gathered over the years. Some of this stuff was intentionally buried, others were just forgotten in the infinite expansion of time and space. Therefore we felt to manifest a new top ten list to compile these lost wonders. Enjoy -- and remember to brush your teeth twice a day. Thank you. Don't be jealous, homie. LayzieTheSavage has a plethora of sweaty male groupies that love to make physical contact with him whenever he's in their vicinity. It's like Layzie is a magnet for Nick Diaz superfans that scream at inappropriate times. I've personally witnessed the bromance from MMA fans across the world when they encounter the videographer formally known as 'Michael Mardones.' It's undoubtedly a sight to witness. Generally I stand just behind him and check out the hysteria he creates whenever he walks down a crowded hallway before and after MMA events. Keep in mind that Layzie isn't even an on-camera interviewer and he gets more dudes wanting to hug him than -- well, than me. That's cool. I'm dating a chick. She's Canadian and is far more attractive than the dudes in this video captured after the UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit weigh-ins.   The first time I met Vinny Magalhaes, I completely ignored him at a dinner table. It was one of the most unintentional gangsterish thing I've ever done. I blame it on a horrendous level of light at the restaurant we were dining at. That entire statement is a lie. The first time I met Vinny Magalhaes, he slept on my sofa in Las Vegas with one of my friends way back in the day. Wait, not that way folks. Well maybe that way. You're going to have to ask the 2011 ADCC champion on Twitter because that's not a topic I'm getting into. It goes without saying that we love Vinny Magalhaes on MiddleEasy. We're not sure why, but we just do. We love Magalhaes like kids love to climb on a sofa and pretend the floor is a never-ending pit of lava. Coincidentally, we also love Mike 'The Joker' Guymon -- especially when he use a MiddleEasy shirt to videobomb an interview with Vinny Magalhaes in this clip captured at an M-1 Global event in Orange County, California back in 2011.   We've spotted Gilbert Yvel on two separate occasions in two different areas of the country and both times we ran up to him like fat kids running up to a stranded ice cream truck. Ever since MiddleEasy started, we've talked about Gilbert Yvel like some demigod living on a cloud, occasionally coming to earth to procreate with our human women. We assume Yvel would also try to reproduce with Targzissian women if he had the chance, but they just seem a little difficult to locate in our galaxy. We caught up with the Dutch consciousness collector at some random MMA event and decided to pick his brain, before he devoured ours with some fava beans. Yvel told us that above else, some promoter burned him in an upcoming fight and apparently he wanted to inform the entire planet of this severe lack of respect.   Sometimes people get rocked and you sit back and say 'Oh yeah, I saw that coming'. Occasionally there's a punch that drops a fighter in such a spectacular fashion that you can't help but kick every piece of furniture in your living room. UFC 107 was one of those scenarios. I think we all incidentally threw our bottle of Red Stripe half-way across the room when Kongo went down from that frate trane of a punch Mir landed on his dome. Seconds later, Mir climbed off his unconsciousness body, threw his hands up in the air and at that exact moment we all knew the final transformation of Frank Mir was complete. Whatever humanoid Frank Mir was before Brock Lesnar made his face into an incomplete cherry pie was dead. He was resurrected as some 265lb megalodon that still had beef with Brock Lesnar. I'm not sure what demons haunt Frank Mir, but whatever they are, they have to be better than the ones in that 'Paranormal Activity' movie. I watched it because the people in the commercial were jumping out of their seats in the movie theater. Paranormal Activity just made me realize people in commercials that jump out of their seats are idiots. It's as if Brock Lesnar accidentally pushed the 'I will never stop obsessing over you' button on the back of Frank Mir's head. LayzieTheSavage caught up with Frank Mir in the hallway of local Las Vegas MMA show a couple years ago and asked him what exactly his beef is with the former UFC heavyweight champion. Mir admitted that -- well maybe you should just watch this video coming in at number seven of our Top Ten Unreleased MiddleEasy Videos You've Never Seen...Because They're Unreleased.   Scott Coker referring to Georges St. Pierre vs. Nick Diaz is like watching a commercial for a new Atari 2600 system. Both entities are antiquated technologies that were pretty cool at the time, but now about as entertaining as going into beast-mode with a pair of nunchucks in the comfort of your living room. It's the fight that everyone wanted, but as we slowly crawl into 2013, it appears to be an impossibility. Sort of like folding a single piece of paper in half more than seven times. However, you can't tell past-tense Scott Coker this. Check out this interview we conducted with the (former) Strikeforce head honcho regarding a bout the MMA world will never see.   This video was captured shortly after Nick Diaz put on what some consider fight of the year in 2011. It seems like just yesterday when the entire MMA community proclaimed that 'if Nick was smart, he won't trade strikes with Paul Daley.' Apparently all of you arm-chair strategists out there that urged Diaz to take Daley down as soon as possible have nothing on Cesar Gracie, a guy that actually called Nick would win by a knockout in the first round. Nick Diaz is a fighter known to take boxing to a boxer, bring grappling to a submission artist and in this unreleased clip, he brings paranoia to an already paranoid LayzieTheSavage.   We have a ton of video of Jay Hieron that will never be released on MiddleEasy. Let's just say the dude loves to have a great time. Back in 2009, I broke the news to him via phone text that Marius Zaromskis got a Strikeforce welterweight title shot against Nick Diaz over him and, well that's the last time Jay Hieron and I really texted. He was beyond angry, and justifiably so. We caught up with Hieron at the 'It Ain't Chemo' charity event in Las Vegas this year shortly after his title bout against Ben Askren. As always, Jay held nothing back in regards to the judging of the Bellator title bout -- and then he drops a story about how he fought God. Yeah, we're not making this stuff up.   In all of our years on MiddleEasy, we don't think we've ever been totally disregarded from an MMA clothing company as much as we did with RevGear. In the Summer of 2011, we thought we would get a clothing company on board with the site and feature a short ad in the beginning of all of our videos. We approached RevGear because they seemed to be interested in the idea. The response we received from the owner of RevGear seemed positive, but he needed to wait on his business partner to get back into town before making any decisions. 'That's fine' we thought. In the meantime, we actually took the initiative and created a small video in which we got a crew of MMA fighters to sign the same piece of RevGear and we were going to present the clip along with a media package to the owner of RevGear. The video was completed, so we shot an email back to the company. We received a response from his business partner stating the owner of RevGear was now out of town. The optimists that we were, we developed an entire RevGear sponsored contest in which we would give away the signed gear to one of our lucky readers. Contest was ready, proposal was sent -- and nothing. Seriously, that was the last time anyone at MiddleEasy heard from the guys at RevGear. Sure we sent them an influx of emails, but they didn't respond to a single one. After we finally realized that we were burned, we just ate our losses and gave up on the entire concept. In fact, I think LayzieTheSavage sold the signed RevGear shorts on eBay last year. Egh, whatever. Let this be a lesson to all budding MMA websites out there, don't do what we did -- but watch our failed RevGear pitch video anyway.   Some of you remember the infamous Nick Diaz/Mayhem Miller hallway altercation that spawned an entire movement. A movement that was ultimately never fulfilled. You've undoubtedly heard the story before, but I'll give all you MMA newcomers a little rundown on Strikeforce lore. After Nick Diaz grabbed a unanimous decision over KJ Noons back in 2010, he made his way to the dressing room only to cross paths with Mayhem Miller. Now it would have been smart of me to preface the entire Mayhem Miller vs. Nick Diaz history before I got to this part of the story, but I'm listening to MGMT's Electric Feel as I write this, and it's really funky so I apologize for my brain not operating in a sequential order. Funky as in good, obviously. Anything that band puts out is stunning. Prior to the encounter, Mayhem Miller claimed Nick Diaz's 'hood' antics were getting old and he felt that he needed to 'mature.' Miller then called out Nick Diaz to a superfight middleweight bout. It was now time for Nick to make his move, so he accepted the challenge but only at a catchweight between middleweight and welterweight. Mayhem Miller claimed he couldn't cut anymore to make the catchweight and then stated it would be easier for Nick to put on a few pounds. Nick Diaz, being the Strikeforce welterweight champion at the time, proclaimed that it was ridiculous that a guy who he felt was 'irrelevant' was essentially trying to talk his way into a fight 'he didn't deserve.' Now jump to 2010, minutes after Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Noons wrapped up at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. When Nick saw Mayhem in the hallway, he slung a full water bottle directly at Mayhem Miller's head. It clipped Miller near the eyebrow, exploded, then splashed over Mayhem Miller's manager. Immediately, Strikeforce personnel and HP Pavilion security got in between the two. Mayhem Miller appeared to be shocked, but Nick Diaz started yelling 'Come on you fat [expletive], fight me!' (referring to Mayhem's inability to cut weight). After the two were separated, Nick made it to the post-fight press conference where the entire incident was somewhat ignored. The reason why I know the details is because I saw the video of the entire altercation the night of the fight. We didn't film it, but the people that did capture the incident are in our video below. We tried everything to get the footage, folks. Money, theft, trades -- nothing worked. This video represents the minutes leading up to the altercation. In fact, at the end of the clip, Nick Diaz walks down the hallway where he has the incident with Mayhem Miller. The reason this video is deemed illegal, is because it was. Media were instructed not to film backstage, and LayzieTheSavage is obviously the living incarnation of the Honey Badger in this video.   Imagine traveling 24+ hours to the other end of the planet in order to make one YouTube video -- and it gets rejected. Speaking from experience, there's nothing you can really do except hop on the next plane back to the US and smack yourself on the forehead repeatedly while you nearly circumnavigate the globe. Over a year ago, I flew to Singapore in order to get the jump on the MMA industry and be the first site to thoroughly cover an emerging gym called 'Evolve MMA.' No one really knew much about it aside that it appeared to be a slice of Beverly Hills nestled deep in the South Pacific. Back in 2009, MiddleEasy broke the news about the grand opening of the gym and served the MMA world with some of the first pictures of the facility. In early 2011, I took the pilgrimage to Singapore and met with Evolve MMA owner, Yodchatri Sityodtong. If you're an avid MiddleEasy reader, then you probably remember the first article I composed on the gym with a tour of the Evolve MMA facility. Shortly after that feature was published, I promised all of you a second video which covered fighters actually training in the second Evolve MMA gym, also located in Singapore. Unfortunately, that video never surfaced -- until now. When I finalized the video, I sent it over to Yodchatri to get his opinion on the piece. Within seconds, I received an email with something along the lines of 'Dude, don't release this!' Apparently, Yodchatri felt the video didn't really do justice to the talent Evolve MMA truly had to offer. I guess he felt that a flying armbar performed by Shinya Aoki just wasn't impressive enough. I think I responded to his email with 'Look, we don't have to release it, but it would be an incredible waste of really good hip-hop.' There was no budging, so the feature was hacked, slashed and murdered on the MiddleEasy editing room floor. Well, here's the video that took me 48+ hours of traveling planet Earth just to complete. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's pretty damn slick.

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It's time to watch some Asian MMA imported directly to your computer monitor free of charge. ONE FC: War of the Lions is about to drop on your MMA deprived brains and it will all air on MiddleEasy.com at 8:00 am EST / 5:00 am PST. In additional to providing ONE FC: War of the Lions on MiddleEasy, we will be handing out 20 free ONE FC shirts to our avid readers that participant in our coveted MiddleEasy Chatroom. Yes, it's back -- and yes, you should take part in a little MMA chatroom history. Enjoy. {loadposition onefc3}

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Singapore is a cool place, but it's filled with far too many chicks that have an obsession with rocking extremely short jean shorts. The shorts these kids are wearing are a downright disgrace to the morals that have been ingrained in society for years. Our entire culture is being ripped away from us by this obscene fashion trend. It's about time we revert to the old days of sexually deprived women garbed in as many clothing items as possible. How dare these women excite men with their bare skin. That's what I would write if MiddleEasy was aggressively purchased by FOX News. There would be no more Wu-Tang references or jokes about the fashion sense of the entire cast from Voltron. Not at all. MiddleEasy would be a breeding ground for the most bizarrely ignorant stuff one could ever imagine -- with a slight twist of conservatism. Oh, and that Street MMA stuff? Forget about it. Luckily, we're free to bounce around this planet like hyperactive kids on a playground. That's probably why we've been in Singapore for the past week covering ONE FC: War of the Lions. Earlier today, the ONE FC weigh-ins occurred and MiddleEasy's Cynthia Vance manifested another gem of cinematic excellence. Check out our ONE FC: War of the Lions weigh-in video and don't forget it all goes down March 31st at 5:00 am PST / 8:00 EST.

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Five years later, the Japanese fight scene is burnt to a crisp after PRIDE's demise.

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I've been told nothing in life comes for free, but maybe every once in a while you actually don't have to work for anything and you can just let the good fortune be laid at your feet. Guys, we have had many contests on MiddleEasy, some of which have required a college degree in graphic design, some of which have only required crayons and construction paper. We've held contests asking you to scar your bodies for life, and to create your own martial arts techniques. Time and time again, you fantastic and clever readers of MiddleEasy.com have delivered the goods. Now we've partnered with TOPPS for a giveaway to pay you guys back, you beautiful people you. Don't think I haven't read the comment sections, you guys wanted a contest for the non-artistically, non grappling inclined. Well we have this entire box of the brand new UFC TOPPS cards to give away. Before I tell you what the contest is, let me motion to a nonexistent part of a stage in my apartment while I tell you what's in the box: Inside each box you will get either an autographed relic, autograph or relic card in every pack, 'Triple Threads autographs', Sick sigs book cards featuring six autographs and on-card silver Full Contact Autographs. You will also be some of the first people on the planet to get the Fist-ograph box toppers. The Fist-ograph is a randomly inserted over-sized bonus card which includes a fist print and an autograph from the featured fighter. This retails for anywhere between one hundred and sixty to two hundred United States dollars. These things are already selling out all over the place, including Amazon and everywhere else I looked. Now what's the catch you ask? What do you have to do to get this entire factory sealed box of the 2012 TOPPS UFC Knockout cards? Tell us in the comment section why you deserve them. Pretty simple huh? You guys are so clever and hilarious and great we had to create an entire awards show around you, so we are sure you can handle this. Type comments, post a video you made, beg, plea, tell a joke...The registered MiddleEasy reader who we deem most fit to receive this incredibly rare and baller by definition box of collectible cards will have them in their mail via the increasingly unreliable United States Postal Service. Look at the box. Glorious. This contest is for people living in the continental United States and you must be a registered member of MiddleEasy.com. My registered username for the MiddleEasy forums is 'Jay' so check back frequently, as I will post under your submission in the comment section if you won. Good luck and God bless all of you.

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It's been a while but we're back! Sunday Night Fights returns and for the first time featuring UFC Undisputed 3. Tonight we plan on running a few tournaments so we can figure out who's who in the UFC 3 hierarchy, maybe give away a few prizes, and fill a few vacant slots on the UFC 3 MiddleEasy fight team. New to Sunday Night Fights? Here's what you need to do: At approximately 9PM Central Time you will log on to your Xbox 360 entertainment system. If you haven't already, you will add the 360 Gamertag 'MiddleEasy' (why haven't you already?). Then, you will see that MiddleEasy is online and I will have you join a party. You will then be put in a bracket. Not hard eh? This will be our first time running a Sunday Night Fights without the aid of a 'Fightcard' feature, but I'm sure we'll figure it out just fine. I even scribbled out a little bracket on this piece of paper next to me (not shown). Let it be known that we will be using Simulation Energy Settings, Equalized Stats, and it will be PRIDE mode. This is going to be awesome as long as this doesn't happen to me tonight: Poor Cro Cop.

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The UFC Japan 2012 show has so many mixed variables heading into the event, nobody is sure if it will be a major success or not.

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Don't be scared to visit MiddleEasy's official Tumblr page, homie. We've been posting some rather decent and exotic MMA content the past week, including some content-specific entries for this week's UFC 143 card. Since there's probably a 50% chance that Nick Diaz will show up for today's UFC 143 press conference, we've brought the official MiddleEasy chatroom back for this exclusive event. Watch the entire UFC 143 press conference right here on MiddleEasy. Be sure to 'pop-out' the chatroom so you can chat and watch the antics at today's press conference. Multi-tasking for the win. The UFC 143 pre-fight press conference starts at 1:00 pm PST / 4:00 pm EST, so be there! {loadposition ufc143_prefight}

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Don't be scared to visit MiddleEasy's official Tumblr page, homie. We've been posting some rather decent and exotic MMA content the past week, including some content-specific entries for this week's UFC 143 card. Since there's probably a 50% chance that Nick Diaz will show up for today's UFC 143 press conference, we've brought the official MiddleEasy chatroom back for this exclusive event. Watch the entire UFC 143 press conference right here on MiddleEasy. Be sure to 'pop-out' the chatroom so you can chat and watch the antics at today's press conference. Multi-tasking for the win. The UFC 143 pre-fight press conference starts at 1:00 pm PST / 4:00 pm EST, so be there! {loadposition ufc143_prefight}

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The podium sits alone on the stage as the low but excited hum of the award nominees and guests of the 2011 MiddleEasy Comment Awards shuffle into their assigned seats. Tuxedos and gowns made in only the finest silks will be worn this evening, where tears of joy and sadness will be shed gloriously in the name of witty comments. As usual, Synthsis was the first to arrive. He actually got to the theater before the red carpet was even rolled out and was seen sitting in the third row staring forward for for most of the afternoon. Very weird guy. Backstage the MiddleEasy network was hard at work. Cat and Bauzen were in charge of the lights and sound, which explained the Wu Tang and funky lightshow as all of the anonymous attendees made their way inside. They would never actually shut off Wu Tang for the remainder of the evening...to no one's disapproval. Kieran and Jason were in charge of the sandbags that seem to only be used on a theater stage to catch bad guys at an opportune time in adventure/comedy movies, but nothing was getting done. Rather than do their job a once simple discussion of the physics required to lift the sandbags and open the curtain to the stage led to multidimensional paradox theories. The curtains would not be opened on time because of this. LayzieTheSavage provided the smoke and all the pyrotechnics. Some attendees complained that the smoke smelled funny, but not everyone. Nobody knew were Zeus was, but like the omniscient being that he is, he was pleased and levitated around the theater as an invisible elemental. Another year and another Reader Comment Awards is upon us. Let us embrace the strange and wonderful community that MiddleEasy.com has become, for the children and for us. Over three thousand articles were reviewed for these awards, and many common themes were encountered; Religion, humanity, but underlying it all was love. So thank you readers for commenting and making the thankless and horrible job of going through all of those articles for your enjoyment possible. Lets get to the awards. Chad Griggs is awesome, and we here at MiddleEasy want to encourage the discussion of the fireman and his Sideburns of Power™. Thus, we are giving away an award for it. [div2 class="highlight1"]  "God bless you Chad Griggs, you marvelous bastard." - (Maximum Spaniard - 2011-02-22 17:31, "It appears that Bobby Lashley has left Strikeforce and will never return.")[/div2]   Another strange comment from an anonymous user, and once again religious...I think? This comment underneath an article about King Mo getting his teeth knocked out by Tyrone Spong was just too confusing to not win an award, so we bestow the most confusing comment of the year upon you, Anonymous user. [div2 class="highlight1"] "The engineer understood him at christian louboutin canada once. He seized Pencroft by the arm, and dragged him to his house. There the sailor developed his project, which was indeed extremely simple. They christian louboutin risked nothing but their lives in its execution. The hurricane was in all its violence, it is true, but so clever and daring christian louboutin sal." - (Anonymous - 2011-05-18 01:49, "King Mo's teeth were knocked out by Tyrone Spong, but don't worry, he's getting them fixed.")[/div2]   [div2 class="highlight1"] "daley hits hard, he's got a lot of power, he's knocked a lot of dudes out, and he's a decent technical striker with a couple dangerous combos/strikes, but the same could be said of lawler, zaromskis, gomi, kj noons, and sakurai. they all fell, daley will fall toohe's got a puncher's chance against a guy with a granite chin and better boxing, so unless daley detonated a nuclear bomb directly on the button (which is possible, but not probable), i don't see how anyone can doubt that diaz has thisso, uh, you know, war diaz, 209 motherfucker..." - (Beefheart - 2011-03-07 19:40, "Paul Daley has opened the smack talk salvo over the 209.")[/div2]   There are moments where a well placed comment can derail a perfectly good Frate Trane of a comment section. It's funny how these things go...what should turn into a friendly gathering of like minded and passionate MMA fans turns into a cesspool of hatred and vitrol. This is the craziest derailed comment section of the year. Congratulations to everyone who contributed to this horribleness. [div2 class="highlight1"] "Seal Team Six was in attendance at UFC 130."[/div2]   This actually comes from an article that was published in 2010, but the comment itself is from 2011. That's right people...anything can happen in the MiddleEasy Reader Comment Awards. Ladies and gentleman, this anonymous fellow has officially educated us all on the history of the fade in a few short sentences, congratulations to you Anonymous, not registered user. We appreciate your fade knowledge. [div2 class="highlight1"] "Cro Cop should be at 1. and fades aren't a mexican thing, back in 92 I came from Poland and the majority of my friends came from former ussr countries, believe me fades started with dads and uncles coming back from military service and all the kids trying to be like them. I had a fade at the age of 7. I went to Vietnam last year and saw the 2 and 3 year old kids with fades so yea mexicans might have started the whole fade boom in the states but not the world." - (Anonymous - 2011-01-15 11:35, "The Top Ten Fades in MMA.")[/div2]   The Graphic interchange Format was made popular by Compuserve in the late 80's/early 90's and without it our lives would be void of short yet hilarious clips depicting actions that must be viewed hundreds of times in low resolution. The gif of the year is from uber commenter Synthsis featuring Anderson Silva kicking Vitor Belfort in the face. [div2 class="highlight1"] - (synthsis - 2011-02-06 13:21, "Anderson Silva pulls off the front kick to end all front kicks and knocks out Vitor Belfort.")[/div2]   2011 brought a lot of changes to MiddleEasy.com, one of the most important among them was the addition of Tim Kennedy for his reoccurring column: Cooking With Tim. Tim has taught us a lot about cooking, but very little in the way of his second love: guns. Luckily we have commenter's like Sidecheckkick who will be sure to educate us on firearms for the foreseeable future. [div2 class="highlight1"] "Hah this is funny the video i mean and the fact that i actually thought about getting a SVL and then to see Rener with one in the header seems like he knows his guns.For those who dont know... its a pretty badass rifle maybe the best today but its custom made by rather small russian manufacturer, who mainly supply russian special forces and sports-shooters, and not very well known outside of russia (or at least what i thought)I guess even gracies have to come up with jitsu for a distance of 2.3 km yet" - (Sidecheckkick - 2011-06-20 17:38, "Watch this video of Rener Gracie pranking EVERYONE in his academy.")[/div2]   It's shocking how many history majors frequent MiddleEasy. A lot of different comments were in the running for this award, but ultimately, this verbal beatdown Tobikan Judan gave an anonymous (and mildly crazy) reader was one of the most impressive displays of dominance we've seen ever. You get the award, history teacher of our nations future. Let your pupils go forth and prosper with the knowledge that their sage teacher is a MiddleEasy award winner. Check out this wild comment section that spins out of control on the subject of the origins of the United States. [div2 class="highlight1"] "Besides, in 1775 there were more people of Swedish, Dutch, German, French, African, and Native ethnicities living in the colonies than actual English. I can go on for days about how this country was formed, and it's more than just English v. Dissidents and the French. So please stop attacking people with your association fallacies. KEEP IT MMA buddy." - (Tobikan Judan - 2011-02-27 13:40, "Michael Bisping defeats Jorge Rivera, apologizes, gets in Jorge’s face, then apologizes again.")[/div2]   Who would have thought that a throwaway comment would lead to the best non-MMA related image in a comment in 2011? iamphoenix posted this cutaway image of mitochondria which is not only completely off topic but also beautifully informative. If I was wearing a hat, I’d have doffed it. [div2 class="highlight1"] - (iamphoenix - 2011-10-02 15:25, "Vitor Belfort reveals the extent of his injury and says he could sell a fight against Chael Sonnen.")[/div2]   If all you know of irony is what you have heard in Alanis Morissette songs then I’m afraid you only understand coincidence expressed through similes and not irony, sorry. Luckily you don’t need to understand either to appreciate how spot on this commenter’s observation is. [div2 class="highlight1"] “hahah chaels face looked like a group of people just walked in on him jacking off” - (Anonymous - 2011-10-02 22:12, "After watching this clip, it's clear that Chael Sonnen doesn't think highly of Travis Browne.")[/div2]   People love MiddleEasy and we are forever thankful for this, because otherwise we would be sitting at our computers laughing at our own jokes and sharing Grass Fights via e-mail. Not that we don’t do those things anyway but it does soften the blow when we receive comments with so many kisses at the end that we expect them to be followed by the words ‘no homo’ in parentheses. We love you too, anonymous commenter. [div2 class="highlight1"] “I've been waiting for the mill, But made my day when you said u dont give a fuck bout these cunt's who moan about the ad's thank u middle easy you grew a pair of balls now all you need to do is stop hyping overeem and we can live happy ever after Zeus if your ever in ENGLAND OR THAiLAND GIVE ME A SHOUT ill hook you up even if your a yank your ok wth me dude xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx” - (Anonymous - 2011-10-02 16:07, "The Sunday Morning Rumor Mill.")[/div2]   Gardenninja's user name now makes a lot more sense considering he clearly possesses the knowledge required to marinating and cultivating a large crop of marijuana. Ironically this is probably one of the few times you would want to be an anonymous user on the site. The award for marijuana cultivation and street pricing information goes to gardenninja. Congratulations? [div2 class="highlight1"] "6 plants worth $122,880 hahaha I wish... The biggest outdoor plant harvest I've seen is a dried trimmed 4 lb per plant and he was getting 8 lb+ that sounds like crazy marijuana math to me.(at 2,300 a pound market rate)" - (gardeninja - 2011-03-11 09:56, "Matt Lindland comments on his alleged marijuana thievery.")[/div2]   When someone turns up to a party with so much self-confidence they could punch Satan in the face, there won’t be a cry of “SHIT JUST GOT CHAEL” because it never caught on as a meme, but it should have, so we at MiddleEasy want to commemorate this saying with this award. [div2 class="highlight1"] "SHIT JUST GOT CHAEL" - (Anonymous - 2011-10-08 21:52, "My GOD this Chael Sonnen...")[/div2]   When it comes down to being prophetic, every commenter wants to claim their superiority over the others. It's the most alpha part of internet nerdary. "Dude, I called that with my brother at Buffalo Wild Wings' or some variation of that, is something every MMA can confess to claiming at one point in their lives. Well, we have actual proof...too bad the commenter wasn't registered and now we'll never be able to truly give him props. Oh the ironing. I wonder how many people in these comments will claim to be this anonymous fellow eh? [div2 class="highlight1"] "This is the fight that will make Couture officially retire." - (Anonymous - 2011-02-22 17:31, "Randy Couture has verbally agreed to fight Lyoto Machida at UFC 129.")[/div2]   If hundreds of articles lead us to believe anything, it's that Zeus lives with multiple large and aggressive cockroach nations that are vying for control of his apartment. Luckily we have this anonymous award winning reader who goes out of their way to help Zeus finally conquer his roach problem. [div2 class="highlight1"] "If you don't have any pets in the house, take a bottle cap and put some peanut butter in it. Lace the peanut butter with your liquid chemical poison of choice, and leave it in a spot where roaches are known to roam. They will come over, thinking its a nice little feast, and then their insides will melt. Fuck 'em." - (Anonymous - 2011-03-09 15:00, "M-1 Global denies that a Fedor vs Henderson bout is on the horizon")[/div2]   You know you visit the site a little too often when you can recall almost verbatim a Hawaiian news broadcast from 1300 articles ago, and that's exactly what aint.that.a.kick.in.the.head and Twinny did. It made me laugh really hard. Thanks for being so nutso about the site guys, here's an award. [div2 class="highlight1"] "Ever since that fucking auto play I forever will remember KHON2 news with Canoa Leahy, Chad Owens, BJ Penn and Matt Hughs training together before his fight with Fitch." - (aint.that.a.kick.in.the.head - 2011-07-04 08:52, "According to this Hawaiian news broadcast, Andrei Arlovski will fight in ProElite on August 27th.") "i'm STILL in shock that Chad Owens re-upped with the Argonauts" - (Twinny - 2011-07-04 12:31, "According to this Hawaiian news broadcast, Andrei Arlovski will fight in ProElite on August 27th.")[/div2]   This comment was either posted by the smartest spam bot in the world or was genuinely posted by a Middle Easy reader who is also designing an energy efficient sports car that looks like a rocket on wheels. I am not entirely sure that either option here is preferable but it was unique enough to win this award. [div2 class="highlight1"] “Jon Jones has good taste in luxury cars.I am developing a completely new niche in high end automobiles-Eco Exotic Sports cars.I am looking for well established daring individuals to collaborate with me and help in the development of this world changing vehicle concept.The full size model can be seen at www.zoleco.ca” - (Zoltan Bod - 2011-11-24 18:58, "Jon Bones Jones' new ride is pretty damn slick.")[/div2]   There were plenty of absolutely wrong comments. So very many wrong comments, and for so many different reasons. It came down to the committee having to filter the selection process, so we decided to get really specific. Below are the winners of the most wrong comment of the year about Diaz/Daley and the most correct comment of the year about Diaz/Daley. [div2 class="highlight1"] "So...Daley (a guy with a piss poor ground game) is expecting Diaz (a BJJ blackbelt) to keep it standing?" - (Jonesy 2011-02-21 11:02, "Paul Daley says Nick Diaz is phenomenal, but his expiration date is coming up.")[/div2] I have no idea what this comment has to do with the article it was posted on but at the same time that is one of the greatest things about Middle Easy. If I knew Nikola Tesla (which I didn’t, but let’s pretend I do) he would be smiling in whatever after-life scenario you believe in because of this comment. [div2 class="highlight1"] “No one ever gives any fucking credit to Nikola Tesla.” - (Anonymous - 2011-10-07 00:56, "Shogun Rua thinks Dan Henderson is the favorite at UFC 139 because he defeated Fedor.")[/div2] The engineer understood him at christian louboutin canada once. He seized Pencroft by the arm, and dragged him to his house. There the sailor developed his project, which was indeed extremely simple. 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Amidst all the recent scandals involving failed drug tests and bad weight cuts is the connection between the two activities.

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We have so many random items scattered around the MiddleEasy headquarters that hasn't seen the digital light of day. There's just no way we could possibly incorporate them within articles on MiddleEasy.com. That's why we've created the official MiddleEasy Tumblr Page, a home for all those MMA nuggets of coolness that we've either created or found over the years. It's a low-stress Tumblr page with a high amount of curiosity, so I hope you guys enjoy it. We just opened the page minutes ago, so expect updates throughout the rest of 2012 with the quirkiness that you would expect from MiddleEasy.com. Enjoy your day and thanks for reading. Oh, and Minowaman beats Brock Lesnar. Check out the official MiddleEasy Tumblr Page.

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If you're wondering what happened to the traditional MiddleEasy background, don't worry. It's hibernating and slowly evolving into something even more ridiculous for the remainder of 2012. In the meantime, ONE FC will be taking over MiddleEasy.com leading up to the promotion's second event on February 11th in Jakarta, Indonesia. The event is called 'Battle of Heroes' and it will feature fighters from twelve different countries all competing in a small circular cage -- with Pride FC rules. Yes, folks -- that means exactly what you think it means. With One FC, MMA fans have the opportunity to witness world-class muay thai champions soccer kick their opponent into parallel dimensions. Head stomps to a downed opponent are also allowed within ONE FC. We're basically seeing the verge of a new Golden Renaissance in Asian MMA -- and it all starts with ONE FC. Imagine gathering all the top Asian MMA promotions (DREAM, Road FC, DARE, URCC...etc) and combining them into one massive network in which champions will truly fight other champions in cross-promotion title unification bouts. That's precisely what Victor Cui, the head of ONE FC, plans on doing. I'm sure you've read our interview with the CEO by now. In the feature, Cui details his plans for Asian MMA domination, including integrating more women into the mixed martial arts scene in the Far East. Now ONE FC has selected MiddleEasy to be their vehicle in getting ONE FC: Battle of Heroes nailed onto the screen of every MMA fan out there. We're stoked to partner with this very promising MMA organization, and we're already manifesting some ridunkulous content leading up to February 11th in Jakarta, Indonesia. Check out the finalized fight card for ONE FC: Battle of Heroes:   Aside from guys like Bob Sapp, Rolles Gracie and Ole Lausen -- we understand you may be a little confused at the fight roster. Rest assured in the local Asian combat sports scene, these guys have kicked enough available ass to be featured in ONE FC -- and that undoubtedly means something. However, it's our task on the MiddleEasy Network to introduce you to the fighters that will be doing battle at ONE FC: Battle of Heroes. Over the days leading up to the event, we will be featuring these fighters within MiddleEasy, DstryrSG, LiverKick, WHOA! TV and even FighterXFashion. By February 11th, your brains will be so educated in the Asian MMA scene that your nose will leak budo. MiddleEasy was on location in Singapore to cover ONE FC's inaugural event at the Singapore Indoor Stadium and we'll be there for the promotion's second event in Indonesia. Los Angeles based music video director, Patrick Fogarty, will be accompanying me to the event -- so expect an abnormally high amount of dopeness. Patrick is the winner of the 2011 Alternative Press Music Video of the Year, but you probably know him best from the work he did on MiddleEasy's 'The Saint of Stevia: The Legend of Dan Quinn.' We still have hours of footage on memory cards stored inside empty shoe boxes -- so we'll eventually get around to making it into a film. Check out this highlight reel from the infamous Zombie Prophet of ONE FC's inaugural venture into the land of Asian MMA on September 3rd 2011.

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10th Planet - West Los Angeles' Scottie Epstein and MiddleEasy have teamed up to provide a new feature called 'Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda.' It takes a black belt to truly analyze what submissions could have been pulled off during a fight. Luckily for us, 'Einstein' has all the necessary hardware to make that happen. This episode focuses on two specific submissions at UFC 142 that could have happened -- but didn't. If you live in the Los Angeles area, be sure to take a visit down to 10th Planet West LA. Classes are offered for all levels, even the guys that sit on their couch and scream a submission is locked when it really isn't. Check out their website here. Besides, it has the smoothest logo in all of jiu-jitsu. If you tell them MiddleEasy referred you, your first class is free.

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You guys know James Krause. We slapped the MiddleEasy logo on his walkout shirt and the told him that he better not let us down in his Resurrection Fighting Alliance bout last month. Well, the dude scored a head-kick KO in just twenty-six seconds, so we put him on the front page of MiddleEasy for a second time. Since you guys seemed to enjoy the video of LayzieTheSavage getting owned by Nick Diaz and Ronda Rousey, we felt the need to let LayzieTheSavage be dominated by another fighter -- this time it's our bud James Krause. For those that don't know, Krause reads MiddleEasy on a daily basis. He's one of you -- but he chose to use his extremities to punish people inside of a cage. Check out this video and be sure to follow James Krause on Twitter.

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We knew that roughly around a few thousand people would submit their votes for the 2011 MiddleEasy Awards, but we had no idea that in reality it would be tens of thousands of people voting. The response for the 2011 MiddleEasy Awards was so great, that it literally crashed our database servers three separate times. After hours of carefully tabulating all of your votes, we're finally ready to present to you the winners of the 2011 MiddleEasy Awards. Congratulations for everyone that was nominated and a big thanks to the tens of thousands across the world that submitted their votes and let their voice be heard. We love you. All of you.

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Well, I guess this is what not tapping will get you… HT: MiddleEasy

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It's that time of the year to hand out legally purchased merchandise in the sake of whatever religion you believe in. Here at MiddleEasy, our religion consists of videogames and MMA. We call it 'Rawesomism,' but that name will most likely change in the future. We don't care about cleverly crafted holiday cards or precisely wrapped presents. Give us a remarkable fight on an equally amazing console, and you have essentially made our year. That's why MiddleEasy has teamed up with Microsoft to offer three lucky people out there UFC 141 streamed on their Xbox 360 for absolutely free. Starting December 20th, everyone with Xbox Live gold memberships will be able to access the new UFC on Xbox app. UFC on Xbox features On-Demand video of virtually every UFC fight imaginable along with interviews, countdown shows and much more. The app will also enable you to stream press conference, weigh-ins and (of course) UFC events live in HD. You can even make your picks via your Xbox 360, share them with friends and see who has the greatest ability to predict the future -- and then secretly make fun of them behind their backs. Although, if they were psychic they should have seen it coming. Now's your chance to watch UFC 141 on your Xbox 360 in the comfort of your home for absolutely free. Three lucky winners will be able to see Overeem and Lesnar clash their gargantuan fists live, through the magic of internet technology and the wizardry of Microsoft. You don't have to live in North America to win. This contest is open for everyone. That's right, I see you guy from Abu Dhabi that always visits the site at 3:16 am. This means you too, person from Iceland who must constantly be surrounded by an army of Bjorks at any given time. How to enter: To be a winner, just tell us how rawesome UFC will be on Xbox 360 in the comment section below. That's it. If you don't know what rawesome is, then you probably should read another MMA site instead. You know, one of those other sites that you don't love. The greater your comment, the greater your chances of winning will be. Of course, the greatest comments will win. Contest ends 5:00 pm PST on December 23rd, so you better leave a comment right now before you forget!

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2011 has been kind to those adorned in the MiddleEasy Monster. Starting with Jason High at Dynamite!! 2010 we have gone on an 8-1 tear through the MMA world. I'm not even going to bother fact checking this claim, but I will say that MiddleEasy was one of, if not the most successful MMA fighter sponsors this year. It feels good, baby. This evening James Krause took to the Legacy Fighting cage on HDNet with a MiddleEasy monster on his chest and one thing in his mind: to uphold the winning tradition of our burgeoning fight team and to do it in spectacular fashion. He succeeded. In order to be considered for a sponsorship from MiddleEasy you have to be able to put up the kind of Battlefield 3 scores James Krause does. Thanks to Neon Jef for the video.            

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You may have viewed BAMMA 8 in its entirety this weekend if you resided in the UK, however for everyone on the North American continent, technical difficulties literally forced the entire event off HDNet. Instead, we were presented with a television series of middle-aged people with mental problems that refuse to listen to people that constantly tell them they have mental problems. Basically, it's like every conversation your parents had with your uncle at Christmas since you were a kid. We were promised a replay of the event later that Saturday, but by that time every MMA fan was caught up in the vortex known as 'UFC 140.' Needless to say, not everyone caught Jimi Manuwa's debut with BAMMA or Jim Wallhead's 48-second first round KO over Joey Villasenor. While we don't have videos of the actual bouts from BAMMA 8 on MiddleEasy, we do have post-fight interviews (in conjunction with WHOA! TV) with the two above-mentioned fighters, compliments of Neil Grove and his extraordinary MiddleEasy shirt. You will love these videos because it depicts Neil Grove rocking a MiddleEasy shirt will doing Ariel Helwani's job. I know you will.

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The future of the UFC as far as PPV headliners goes is shaky. Depth is becoming a big issue. Can the company make enough stars to keep up with their WWE-like schedule?

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Can One FC be the leader of the Asian MMA scene in the next 5-10 years?

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It's that time of the year in which we pay homage to our favorite moments in MMA by pitting them against each other in a hypothetical death match -- controlled by you! The 2011 MiddleEasy Awards are here, and we fully expect you to tell all of your friends, including your functional alcoholic neighbor that knocks on your door every weekend. Right now, you have the power to control MMA history as we know it. The future of the MMA universe is in your hands, use your powers wisely! Check out the list of nominees for the 2011 MiddleEasy Awards and don't forget vote for the 2011 MiddleEasy Awards!     Vote on the 2011 MiddleEasy Awards!    

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Finally, 7,000 of you have been thoroughly convinced to follow MiddleEasy on Twitter, so we feel the need to give out some free optical disc schwag. Initially in our Supremacy MMA contest (which has been on the front page of MiddleEasy for a little over a month), we planned to hand out a game once our official MiddleEasy Twitter account exceeded 7,000, 7,500 and finally 8,000. However, we need to free up some banner real estate for a few end-of-the-year features that we have planned, so we're just going to give away all three Supremacy MMA games now that we've reached the 7,000 mark. In order to be eligible for the contest, you were required to follow @MiddleEasy on Twitter along with posting your Twitter name on the contest page. Now that we have all the entries, we assigned each entry a number and used Random.org to select three winners. Massive congratulations to the following people for claiming a free Supremacy MMA game for Playstation 3 @locoloc   @G_Stefano   @thelilbeastmma If you were not a winner, don't bum yourself out. There will be many more chances to win free stuff from MiddleEasy in 2012.

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Tonight's the night... for UFC to go big on Fox broadcast network.

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[div class="notice" class2="icon"]The following is from an article on LiverKick.com, part of the MiddleEasy Network.[/div] StillWill is back with his latest video, highlighting what he feels are the ten best knockouts in K-1's history. Go ahead and check it out. Watch the Video...

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UFC on FOX: Cain Velasquez vs. Junior Dos Santos will go down this weekend in Anaheim, but there's still time to squeeze an entire MMA event in between now and Saturday. Get out your Die Antwoord albums and vuvuzelas and watch a bout between two massive South Africans this Thursday at EFC 11 in Johannesburg, Africa. Ruan 'Fangzz' Potts will attempt to continue his 13-0 streak and defend his belt against Andrew "One Gear" van Zyl who is also undefeated at 7-0. That's right, two undefeated heavyweights battling inside a cage on the opposite end of the planet -- and it will all be live on MiddleEasy November 10th 2pm EST/11am PST. If you don't reside in South Africa, then you've probably never heard of these guys. That's alright. They don't care if you've never seen their names referenced in a message board. These heavyweights will get inside of cage and compete for the EFC heavyweight belt as if the fabric of time and space depended on it. MiddleEasy will be the exclusive broadcaster of EFC Africa 11 on the North American continent, therefore I expect a lot of refreshments to be purchased ahead of time. Check out the trailer for the event and check out EFC Africa's official site for the entire fight card. The MiddleEasy chat room will make its return on November 10th for EFC Africa 11, so be there or never talk to us again. Just kidding, we'll still talk to you -- but be there. Seriously.

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It's that time of the year when it's socially acceptable to knock on the front doors of people you don't even know and beg them for food. Luckily, I live in a part of Hollywood that's too jaded to celebrate holidays so the only person that will knock on my door is my stoner neighbor asking me for a lighter. He's also a writer for Disney so keep in mind there's a good chance that some of those cartoons were created under the influence of marijuana. Although, I'm sure that wouldn't surprise any of you. Happy Halloween from the crew at MiddleEasy! Today we remember all of those who died on the planet by dressing up as scantily clad nurses and firemen. Interesting. Check out this MiddleEasy approved pumpkin created by Danielle Richie.

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So I heard you're a fan of both Nick Diaz and MiddleEasy. Congratulations, you have made two wise decisions in your pursuit of becoming the ultimate MMA fan boy/girl. Now here's your chance to win one Green Middleeasy shirt signed by Nick Diaz. You live in Iceland? Don't worry, we'll ship it anywhere in the world -- including Pontypridd, Wales. All you have to do to win this super rare shirt (the only one in the galaxy) is to like MiddleEasy on Facebook. That's it. If you've already 'liked' the official MiddleEasy Facebook page, then you're good. There is no further action required to win a piece of this rawesomeness. Check out the video of the shirt below and while you're at it, follow Jessica Dawn on Twitter. She'll appreciate it.

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As a self proclaimed nerd who enjoys hand to hand combat as much in the "RL" as the digital world, MyTakeRadio is a regular in my podcast rotation. Sharing the same sensibilities as many of us at MiddleEasy, MyTakeRadio discusses the finer things in life: like comics and robots. So when Rich, the host of 'MyTake' asked us to join the trifecta of MyTakeRadio, MMAValor and Unveil NYC Gaming for a chance to raise some cash for Breast Cancer Awareness month, we jumped at the chance. So we present to you: Brawling 4 Boobies. Here is Rich to explain more. On February 28, 2000 I lost my mother to breast cancer. It has been a long 11 years for my family and I. Over time I realized that the brand I have built can be a great tool to raise donations to help others cope and endure with losing a loved one to this illness.My Take Radio in partnership with Unveil NYC, Middleeasy and MMA Valor will be hosting an XBOX Live community gaming event called Brawling For Boobies. Every weeknight starting on 10/24 we will host lobbies for some of the fighting games we all love. Gamers participating are asked to donate what they can in order to participate for that evenings play. Here are the tentative titles and dates.10/24- Mortal Kombat10/25-EA MMA10/26-Marvel v Capcom 310/27-UFC Undisputed10/28 Super Street Fighter 4 AE/ SF3 Third Strike Online.Gameplay will begin at 9pm est and end 11pm est. On Friday since there are two titles we will extend playtime until 12am. You do not need to play if want to donate. We are doing this to promote community play for a good cause so every little bit helps. We will leave our donation page open till the end of the month. Add Xbox gamertag's MiddleEasy, Akuma25 and UnveilGaming. I will be on the MiddleEasy Xbox Gamertag the 25th and the 27th 100% guaranteed, and I might pick up a copy of MVC3 if I have the time. Let's Brawl 4 Boobies! Please click the ribbon to donate.

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Remember when you guys were complaining that our video player didn't support iPads and iPhones? Yeah, those were the days. Back when everyone thought Mark Kerr was the greatest heavyweight to ever grace Pride FC and UFC. Well, maybe not that far back. Regardless, those days are over and you can stop complaining. You guys are demanding, so we're forced to deliver here at the MiddleEasy Network. Case in point, WHOA! TV has released an exclusive director's cut of The Finest Hour: UFC 138 for MiddleEasy.com. It's slick, sexy and inspirational -- basically every word my ex-girlfriend didn't say about me towards the end of our relationship. Enjoy.

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Imagine if the Fertita brothers invested in American Gladiators instead of UFC. We would be heralding 'Nitro' as the greatest of all time and Wesley "Two Scoops" Berry would be the equivalent of Royce Gracie. Our lives would be hopelessly intertwined by the notion that The Gauntlet is the only true way to evaluate one's athletic prowess; but look on the bright side, we still would be able to see Gina Carano compete. Not much of that has to do with the Green MiddleEasy shirt, but neither does this picture of a Silver Surfer collectible card. It's on MiddleEasy because it's rawesome, and occasionally that's the only prerequisite required to be placed on the site. Sort of like this standing guillotine suplex finish performed by Morgan Bracken in Topeka, Kansas this past weekend. Morgan entered the arena rocking a Green MiddleEasy shirt while his opponent had Eminem blaring in the background. We all know about the Eminem curse, but leave it to the esoteric powers of the Green MiddleEasy shirt to give Morgan that extra amount of rawesome needed to finish his opponent in stunning fashion. Check it out below and if you want to rock the green, just click here.

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Due to our incredible obsession with Microsoft's Xbox 360, you knew it was just a matter of time before we released our MiddleEasy Mobile app on the Windows 7 Phone platform. Aesthetically, it's the slickest and cleanest operating system that anyone can get for their phone. However, due to its ability to do so much (you can access your Xbox 360 from the mobile device), HTC phones still fetch around the same if not more than an iPhone. For those of you who have sprung the extra money to be cellular pioneers, then you can finally get MiddleEasy on your Windows 7 phone, free of charge! Download our Windows 7 phone MiddleEasy app today, and be proud of yourself. It's available at the Windows Phone Marketplace just by searching 'MiddleEasy,' or you can just click on the link below to download it. Be sure to look out for out MiddleEasy App 2.0 hitting Android in a few days! Download our Windows 7 Phone MiddleEasy App right now!

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Since we've neglected our Playstation 3 followers for the better part of...two years, we finally have something exclusive for all of you that made the unwise decision of picking Playstation 3 over Xbox 360. Now you have a chance to win one of three copies of Kung Fu Factory's new 'Supremacy MMA' for the Playstation 3. It's an arcade simulation of MMA only for the hardcore that prefer to serve beatings inside of a strip club as opposed to a sanctioned cage. The game features Shane del Rosario, Jerome LeBanner, Felice Herrig, Jens Pulver along with more fighters that will be able to snap their opponent's leg with the flick of your thumb. However, more importantly MiddleEasy is featured in the game, and that should make all of you out there very happy. In order to win, all you have to do is follow Middleeasy on Twitter and leave a message in the comment section below with your Twitter handle. It's as simple as that. Remember, this is only for people that have Playstation 3. These games are also US region, so if you have a Japanese or European Playstation, it probably won't work for you. Once we hit 7,000 followers we'll select a random person who follows @MiddleEasy and left their Twitter handle in the comment section and will award their coveted prize. When we hit the Twitter milestone of 7,500 and 8,000 followers, we will repeat the process until we're out of games. Click here to follow @MiddleEasy on Twitter

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Finally, the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill has returned to satisfy your quirky need to know what's being talked about in the MMA world. These nuggets of info sometimes hit, sometimes miss, but you guys really want them in your life -- so I'll deliver it. The SMRM took a three-week hiatus but now that it's back, I expect all of you to bake a tray of oatmeal cookies in my honor. It's not that unreasonable of an expectation, is it? Also, it's relatively easy to tell the difference between a long-time fan of MiddleEasy and bandwagon jumpers. If you've been with us from the beginning (or at least a very long time), then you will understand that placing a brief eight-second commercial in the beginning of our videos enables MiddleEasy to continue bringing the content that you've loved over the years. However, if you're a fair-weather fan and claim you're going to 'stop coming here' because of a few small ads, then frankly, we don't even want you. MiddleEasy is for the MMA fans that can appreciate Tom Lawlor, Seth Petruzelli and a bottle of baby oil. Alright, maybe that was a bad example. The fact is, MiddleEasy was built for you -- so enjoy it! Well, it's not that much of a rumor as of this morning, but Dana White has been in talks with Gilbert Melendez to get him inside the Octagon in 2012. From what I've been told, the move is not dependent on Gilbert defeating Jorge Masvidal. There's also a chance the Strikeforce title defense may not occur. There's a very strong possibility that King Mo will be transitioned to the UFC by the end of this year and included in the UFC card in Japan, which is scheduled to go down in February 2012. One can only hope that he will be matched-up against Rampage Jackson, a guy that he has called out in the past. Strikeforce is planning to include Gina Carano on their December 17th card. Gegard Mousasi vs. Ovince St. Preux will be upgraded to a light heavyweight title fight. There have been some 'shake-ups' within the Bellator PR department for the past four months. Perhaps it's some restructuring for Bellator's imminent move to Spike TV. M-1 Global has also changed their PR department. I'm not sure what that would indicate. Showtime no longer uses Esther Lin for Strikeforce shows. By no longer employing the greatest MMA photographer, this may indicate that Showtime plans to leave MMA once the Strikeforce contract is up. However, that's a pretty long stretch. In February 26, 2012, the UFC will host two cards on the same day. The event held in Japan will most likely air on the FX Network while the domestic card will be available live and on PPV. Australia's Impact FC seem to be making a return to the MMA world in 2012. According to Bigfoot Silva's manager, he is also UFC bound. Ex-Golden Glory fighter, Siyar Bahadurzada, claims he has signed a contract with UFC. The UFC has a contingency plan in case diiverticulitis inflicts Brock Lesnar before his schedlued bout against Alistair Overeem at UFC 141. One FC plans to include women in their second event, which is scheduled for sometime in December. Rashad Evans has a strong suspicion that Jon Jones will try to 'pull out' of his title defense against him. There's a screen cap going around of several UFC 141 bouts being announced on Wikipedia, but for some reason were removed shortly after they appeared. While all of these bouts seem reasonable, they have not been officially announced by UFC. Take it with a grain of salt. It appears that Alistair Overeem has selected 'Kings MMA' to be his new gym in the US. You're probably not surprised by this one, but it appears that Paulo Filho is already 'having problems with his passport' and his fight against KSW's Mamed Khalidov may not occur.

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If you guys were only there for WHOA! TV's required 'Hell Week' before being accepted to the MiddleEasy Network. We gave him a sleeping bag and locked him inside a dark room filled with crickets, spiders and a few birds. Oh, we also put a large snake inside his sleeping bag. However, the spiders ate the crickets, the birds ate the spiders and the snake ate all the birds, so everything managed to work out. We unintentionally exposed WHOA! TV to the circle of life. We gave him a knife along with some kindle and he eventually killed the snake, cooked it, and ate everything the snake consumed. We had enough, so we ended the hazing and accepted him into the MiddleEasy Network. We've been collaborating with WHOA! TV throughout 2011, the UK's premiere MMA source, and it was time they joined the MiddleEasy family. The work being produced over there is so exceptional, that often times I cry at night just thinking about it. Expect even more suave video features in the immediate future and all types of cool things so amazing, we don't know even know what they are yet. You can check out WHOA! TV's video archive right here.

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Before LayzieTheSavage worked for MiddleEasy, he lived on the beach and spent months on end manifesting highlight reels. He was born on The Underground, but since he linked up with MiddleEasy, the guy dates a friggin' model. As mentioned earlier, all of this stuff is not coincidence. It's all delicately planned out by some celestial and omnipresent entity. We call him the 'MiddleEasy Monster' and he presides over everything. He's like God, but unlike God, he refuses to get involved in the outcomes of MMA bouts. He just stands and carefully observes everything, including this new highlight reel of Gilbert Melendez created by LayzieTheSavage.

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If you don't have a refrigerator fully stocked with energy drinks, then you are a very irresponsible Japanese MMA fan. Dream 17 kicks off on HDNet at 3:00am EST/12:00am PST LIVE and to commemorate the first numbered Dream event of 2011, we're going to fire up the MiddleEasy live chatroom. Bauzen, Jason Nawara and I will be holding down the metaphysical room in which people will visit to let us know what thoughts are running through their cerebral cortex. Damn, what kind of mockery of a scientific sentence was that? Looks like RZA wrote it. Come back to this exact article at 2:45am EST/ 11:45 PM PST to start chatting with us. Who knows, we may give out prizes in the form of gems of knowledge. You have to be there to find out. We will be live chatting throughout the duration of the event and will try our best to keep all of you awake. In the meantime, get ready for this weekend with the official MiddleEasy Guide to Your MMA Weekend. Xbox Live Gamertag is 'MiddleEasy'. We will be playing pretty much up until Dream 17 airs. See you then! {loadposition dream17} -->

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When things get a little hectic in the universe, we all need a little guidance to find our true path in life. Whether it's selling newspapers on a street corner or slinging enchiladas at your local Mexican restaurant. We all have a purpose in this world, but for this weekend set all of that existential nonsense aside. You have one thing to do in the next 48 hours, and that is to watch as much MMA as spiritually possible. Your job, kids, car note, roach infestation, roommates, girlfriend mean nothing anymore. It's your time to shine, and you can do so by reading the 'MiddleEasy Guide to Your MMA Weekend.' This is for you to keep -- a present from everyone at MiddleEasy. We love you. You already know this. Now be bold. Go forth and be the greatest MMA fan you can possibly be this weekend.

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