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News and notes from around the MMA world …

- Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and his manager are being sued by a Florida-based management and promotion company.

- Chuck Liddell says that he never considered retirement after his loss to Keith Jardine.

- ESPN.com has another story on Chuck’s chance for redemption.

- CBS Sportsline has their head to head preview up.

- Sam Caplan picks his year end award winners.

- GSP is confident, but not overconfident.

- Dave Meltzer looks at the top 10 matches of this weekend.

- UFC 79 is going to run head to head with the second half of the final game in the New England Patriots goal of a perfect regular season.

- The Yarennoka! card is set.

Talking Points

One of the two big UFC 79 matches is much easier to predict than the other. I simply think that Georges St. Pierre is too skilled and well rounded for Matt Hughes, and nothing that Hughes has done of late has shown me otherwise. Unless St. Pierre is lying to us, and he’s in fact not ready after a short training camp, he has the edge in nearly every facet of the game. He may even be a better wrestler, inside the cage, than Hughes is today. That one is hard to grasp, but it might be true. I see the fight lasting into the third round as Hughes tries to test St. Pierre and make him work a little harder than he did in their second fight, but I still see a similar result. I think St. Pierre will knock him out again, but this time in the third round.

Whenever I have to predict a Chuck Liddell fight, I have a hard time because I’ve been such a fan of his. But even looking at this in an unbiased way, the signs point towards him winning. Wanderlei Silva has lost his last two fights as well, but in both cases, he lost them in devastating fashion. He didn’t just lose, he lost badly. He took major beatings in both of his last losses to Mirko Cro Cop and Dan Henderson. In both of Chuck’s losses, he didn’t really take much punishment. Even in his knockout loss to Rampage, it was a punch that hit him right on the button and he was out. It was quick, and only really one solid punch that landed. I simply think that Silva has a better chance to get knocked loopy than Liddell does. What I hope is that both guys come out throwing, rather trying to be safe and not get caught. This fight has been a dream fight in the past for a reason and that reason is because both guys can throw bombs. I think that Silva will score early, but that Liddell will survive it all and finish him off in the second round.

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Garrett M. Gonzales
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