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Dana White proves he can bench 300lbs. in the latest saga of his UFC 93 video blog.

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Rich Franklin would take a easy fight over a drawn out battle any day, unfortianatly I don’t predict his fight with Dan Henderson ending in the first round.

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Part 4 focuses on Andrei Arlovski’s life outside the cage just before the fight.

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Dana White talks about crappy food in the UK.

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WEC welterweight champion Carlos Condit looks to return this spring to defend his title bout.

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UFC lightweight fighter Roger “The Matador” Huerta (20-2-1) has apparently turn down a five fight contract extension with the UFC, so that he may pursue acting opportunities in 2009.

“I’m not burned out [with fighting] … I have one fight left with the UFC and I want to honor that. As soon as they tell me to fight, I’ll fight my last fight on the contract.”

After getting bit by the bug last summer shooting a role in the film “Tekken,” Huerta said the timing felt right to tackle a wholly different challenge.

“I saw that you have to dedicate as much as you do to training for a fight as you do for an acting role and I’m intrigued by that … I’m 25 years old. I see Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture and they didn’t really hit their primes till their thirties. I’m only going to be young so long and I know that movies and agencies and what not want the young look.”

Does “The Matador” plan to ever return to fighting and the UFC:

“The UFC is my home and it is my family and eventually I’ll come back … Pursuing the modeling and acting thing, that’s kind of where I’m at right now. The fighting will always be there. I’ll always have that in me. The truth is I’ve been fighting my whole life for everything, and this to me, is something else.”

An interesting note, according to the article Huerta was offered the fight with Joe Stevenson at UFC 95, but turned it down due to “personal family issues”. Diego Sanchez took the fight and will step in to face Joe “Daddy” on Feb. 21st.

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In a recent interview with UFC President Dana White, UFC 92 has crushed UFC expectations of PPV buys:

“I think [Georges St. Pierre vs. BJ Penn on January 31 is] going to be the biggest fight we’ve ever done. The last Lesnar pay-per-view did really well, and then our Dec. 27 show crushed it.”

“I don’t want to get into numbers too much—that’s our policy. But it crushed it. I’ll say this: The Christmas show crushed the Lesnar fight by 150,000-175,000 buys… We lowballed our pre-flight estimates on that card and were blown away.”

“I think what happened was two things. One, it was a kick-ass card. Two, I think we were a little off because of the holidays. I guess everybody thought, you’re burnt out by everything, what do you want to do? You want to get back together with your buddies and watch some fights.”

“We were crapping our pants when the calendar came up when we saw the last Saturday of the year fell two days after Christmas. Then the economy went down. We didn’t know exactly what to expect. But we were surprised by how well it did.”

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Marcus Davis vs. Chris Lytle at UFC 93

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