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If you can make it through the terrible music without poking your eardrums out with a Slim Jim, this short Wanderlei Silva retrospective is definitely a good watch.

The video opens with Wand heading to the hospital for knee surgery, which, be forewarned if you have a weak disposition, they catalogue in graphic detail.

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I missed the first two rounds of this fight live. The Chicago Blackhawks had defeated the Nashville Predators in game 5 of their quarterfinal series earlier in the day (it was the miracle comeback in which Kane tied the game shorthanded in the third and Hossa put in the winner in overtime). In my hockey rage and an addiction to digital pucks, I hopped on the ol' XBox 360 for a few games of NHL 10 while I waited for the Aldo vs. Faber pay-per-view to start.

Now, to be fair, I loaded up a questionable stream of the prelim fights on my laptop while I played. I am an MMA journalist afterall. I just let my ears passively pick up the action.

Mike and Joe seemed incredibly excited from the get-go. I glanced over to the fight from time-to-time, but still had no intention of putting down my sticks.

I knew I made a mistake when the hyperbole didn't die down through two rounds. I finished my game, checked out the third round, and hoped it would make the pay-per-view show, so I wouldn't look like an asshole.

Fortunately for me, the Zuffa production staff wanted to milk this one for all it was worth.

I won't bore you with a description of the fight. Just go watch it.

Full voting results after the break.

“The person I wanted to fight right off the bat was Brock Lesnar,” Toney said in a live chat with MMAFighting.com. “He’s a champion, I’m a champion and I wanted to do it. But they said I couldn’t do that. Then they said, ‘How about Kimbo?’ But I said, ‘That’s too easy. That’s like kicking a little kid’s butt.’ But then Randy started saying he wanted to fight me, so I said, ‘OK, you’re the first one getting it.’”

So to recap, Toney asked for Lesnar, the UFC countered with Kimbo, and they ended up somewhere in the middle. Too bad for Kimbo, who I guess didn’t fit in with any other UFC booking plans and ended up unemployed soon after. He probably could have beaten Toney too the same way he trounced Ray Mercer. Boxers are always ‘I’m the greatest, I’m gonna whup that ass!’ until someone runs into them and drags them to the ground.

But so long as you’re getting something regularly, it’s not too bad right? And now the UFC UK’s prez is talking about what sounds like a series of Fight Night UK cards:

UFC’s UK president Marshall Zelaznik confirmed the Las Vegas-based MMA group have already planned a provisional date for a fight at the Braehead Arena next year.

“We’re looking at Braehead in the first quarter of next year,” Zelaznik told DailyRecord.co.uk.

The proposed fight card, which UFC hope to confirm before their fan expo in London in October, will form one of a series of new Fight Night shows planned for the UK in 2011.

Already a hit in the US, the midweek cards are seen by UFC chiefs as a way of taking the sport to smaller cities and arenas than London and Manchester.

In terms of building regional talent and satisfying local markets, UFC Fight Nights are a no brainer. Then again, so is having more than one event a year in a country you’re trying to break out in.

If a fighter travels to Australia to compete on a pay-per-view that's being headlined by Ken Shamrock vs. Pedro Rizzo, the chances are pretty good that they did it because they needed the money.

And it the unfortunately case of Impact FC, they may not get it.

Cage Potato reveals that most, if not all of the combatants who participated on the Impact FC fight cards on July 10 (Brisbane) and July 18 (Sydney) are not in receipt of their complete fight purses.

Karo Parisyan, Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou and Jesse Taylor have since confirmed the report.

And it may come as a complete shock (not really) that the failure to compensate said fighters stems from a lack of communication/cooperation between the financial backer and the MMA promoter.

First up is Impact FC financial backer Andrew McManus, as he throws promoter Tom Huggins under the bus:

“[Tom] Huggins has run back to Brazil and is uncontactable, whilst I (who never negotiated, contracted or was a party to any deal) have now been left trying to find funds to pay the men whilst all the false promises of sponsorships (never happened) and late gate sales and walk up all turned out to be lies.”

Huggins, naturally, didn't appreciate the accusations (or the tire marks):

“That statement is categorically untrue. I can provide you with the agreement between Andrew and myself, which clearly demonstrates that my responsibility was to procure fighters and make matches for the event within a given budget. The agreement clearly shows that ALL of the financing for the events, including fighter purses, was the responsibility of McManus. That being said, I feel that at the end of the day McManus being the professional that he is will fulfill his obligations and that the fighters will be paid.”

There's much more to the story over at Cage Potato but in the end there is really only one thing that matters: A group of fighters who are trying to make a living traveled to Australia to compete. They held up their end of the bargain and now it's time for someone at Impact FC to hold up theirs.

There's a lot of heat on the UFC for the low pay scale that up-and-coming fighters receive when competing inside the Octagon for the first time. But they can at least rest assured that win or lose, they're still getting paid. That's one of the unspoken benefits of competing under the jurisdiction of a state athletic commission.

Stay tuned for further details to this developing story as they become available.

Watching MMA is a lot more exciting when you have something riding on the outcome. And while you may not be bold enough to throw actual money on all those tasty underdogs, you can still play along during Sunday's UFC Live: Jones vs. Matyushenko broadcast (Versus, 9 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. PT) by casting your predictions in an MMA FightPicker pool. The game consists of 13 questions this week, covering all the marquee matchups as well as some specific questions on how the fights will play out. (Will there be a takedown within the first two minutes of the main event? Will James Irvin see the second round for the first time since 2006?) Check 'em out after the jump, join FightPicker if you haven't already, and feel free to share your predictions in the comments section. 

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Bugger all!

As expected, UFC 120 will air via tape-delay courtesy of the Spike TV network when Zuffa blows the roof off the O2 Arena on Saturday, Oct. 16 in London, England.

Leading the charge of Britain's best butt-kickers will be Michael "The Count" Bisping in a hard-hitting middleweight battle against Yoshihiro "Sexyama" Akiyama in the main event of the evening.

Joining them will be Dan "The Outlaw" Hardy as he tries to fight his way back into 170-pound title contention against Carlos "Natural Born Killer" Condit in the co-featured fight of the night.

Here is the current UFC 120 line-up:

Main event:

185 lbs.: Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Michael Bisping

Main card (Televised):

170 lbs.: Carlos Condit vs. Dan Hardy
170 lbs.: John Hathaway vs. Mike Pyle
265 lbs.: Travis Browne vs. Cheick Kongo
170 lbs.: James Wilks vs. Claude Patrick

Under card (May not be broadcast):

205 lbs.: Steven Cantwell vs. Stanislav Nedkov
205 lbs.: Cyrille Diabate vs. Alexander Gustafsson
205 lbs.: Tom Blackledge vs. James McSweeney*
155 lbs.: Spencer Fisher vs. Kurt Warburton*
265 lbs.: Rob Broughton vs. Vinicius Kappke de Quieroz*

*Fight not officially confirmed by UFC.com.

Remember: MMAmania.com will provide LIVE quick results of all the UFC 120 bouts as they happen on Saturday afternoon (Oct. 16) in London, as well as live blow-by-blow coverage of the tape delayed Spike TV broadcast beginning at 9 p.m. ET.

To get up to speed on the recent UFC 120 news and notes be sure to hit up our archive here.