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Last night’s UFC Fight Night from Nashville had a handful of impressive performances and finishes, perhaps none more so than Al Iaquinta’s first-round knockout of Diego Sanchez in his first fight in roughly two years. […]

20 YRS AGO: Fascinating look at MMA’s struggles as Shamrock jumps to WWF, two Olympic wrestlers make MMA debuts on EFC Battlecade PPV

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Twenty years ago this week, the Torch Newsletter cover story detailed Olympic wrestlers shining at an Extreme Fighting MMA pay-per-view event, one of a handful of upstart aspiring competitors to the UFC organization, and the […]

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