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“To fight without respect is just violence.”

Club member Darren Barar indulged us and explained a little about the sport he knows and loves. via The Gauntlet

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The Ultimate Fighting Championship Fight Night 11 took place Wednesday night in Vegas, and Dave Doyle of Yahoo! Sports has a good wrap up of everything that happened.

But I’m more interested in something that happened outside the Octagon. Mr. Sunshine reports that Mark Cuban was in attendance.

The Dallas Mavs’ owner sat about 10 rows from the action. He had a few fans recognize him and he was greeted at one point by UFC president Dana White. They shook hands and spoke for a minute. The mood looked pleasant.

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“When so many people like it that much, it’s never as good as they say…is it?”

THE SHOW: When I got my hands on the first season of Avatar for review last year, it was like a revelation. via DVD Talk

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After facing the painful aftermath of his fatal surgery, Nate Quarry returned to UFC Fight Night 11 and conquered the Octagon with the smell of sweet victory.

Quarry, the first cast member of The Ultimate Fighter reality series to challenge for a UFC championship, made his UFC comeback yesterday at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, after a nearly two-year layoff following his match against Rich Franklin at UFC 56.  He defeated Pete “Drago” Sell, a mixed martial artist specializing in Brazilian Jujitsu, in the middleweight bout in the main card event.

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Several local mixed martial arts fighters will face off for Extreme Combat XII Friday night at the Von Braun Center Arena.

The doors open at 7 p.m. and the fight starts at 8. Tickets are $16 in advance, $20 at the door and available at the VBC box office and Ticketmaster outlets.

A pre-fight party starts tonight at 8 at Hooters on University Drive.

Extreme Combat involves mixed martial arts, which is a combination of boxing, wrestling, kickboxing, judo, grappling and other martial arts forms. Matches are held inside a cage or ring and continue until one contestant is knocked out or taps out to imply a submission, or the referee stops the fight.

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Daniel Barrera found himself in familiar quarters Wednesday night. The situation, however, was a bit foreign.

At Energy Sports & Fitness in Elizabethtown, where the 26-year-old Radcliff resident has spent a large portion of the last 18 months training to be a mixed martial arts fighter, Barrera was surrounded by friends and family as they gathered to watch Barrera’s debut on Spike TV’s The Ultimate Fighter.

Also watching his debut were an estimated 2 million viewers.

“I am probably not going to watch that much,” Barrera said Tuesday. “I don’t see myself as any type of celebrity or anything. I try to stay humble. I don’t think I need to see myself on TV.”

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Olympian Corinna West will be making her professional Mixed Martial Arts debut in the Summer Mayhem Series presented by Titan Entertainment at 8 p.m. Sept. 21 at CommunityAmerica Ballpark.

She was a member of the Olympic Judo Team in the 1996 games in Atlanta. In 1995 she took home the silver medal at the Pan American Games. West has competed in three World Judo Championships and is a three-time U.S. National Judo Champion. In 1995 she was an alternate to the World Freestyle Wrestling Championships. She has competed in over 20 different countries.

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