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Joey Beltran the Mexicutioner about his upcoming fight against Pat Barry at UFC Fight for the Troops 2

#6 Junior Dos Santos didn't get any bump from beating #19 Roy Nelson at UFC 117. But he earned a title shot against the winner of #1 Brock Lesnar vs #4 Cain Velasquez at October's UFC 121.

Wow. What a historic month in MMA. We knew going in that it would be a big month given that the #1 and #2 heavyweights would both be fighting, but no one quite expected the way things turned out.

This is the calm before the storm. This weekend will see long reigning #1 Fedor Emelianenko face #9 Fabricio Werdum on Strikeforce; Fedor vs Werdum Showtime. Then the following weekend we'll see #2 Brock Lesnar face #3 Shane Carwin in a UFC heavyweight title unification bout at UFC 116 on July 3rd.

An in-depth review of UFC 115 including analysis of Chuck Liddell's loss to Rich Franklin, Mirko "CroCop" Filipovic's submission win over Patrick Barry, and Martin Kampmann's domination of Paulo Thiago.

Fans didn't expect much from UFC 115 but it delivered top to bottom satisfaction for fight fans.

Former IFL champ Ben Rothwell took a unanimous decision over Gilbert Yvel in an utter slug fest.

The Bloody Elbow staff make their picks for UFC 115.

One of the more power-packed match-ups of the evening at UFC 115 will be the heavyweight tilt between IFL veteran Ben Rothwell (30-7, 0-1 UFC) and the hot-tempered Dutch striker Gilbert Yvel (36-14-1-1, 0-1 UFC).