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Highlights from the UFC 116 open workout, featuring Brock Lesnar, Shane Carwin, Chris Leben, Yoshihiro Akiyama, Stephan Bonnar, and Krzysztof Soszynski

Leban talks about the call he received from Dana and Joe Silva asking him to take the fight with Sexyama on 2 weeks notice. He also talks how he has grown has a fighter and now considers himself a real martial artist.

MAIN CARD
Champ Dominick Cruz vs. Joseph Benavidez (for bantamweight title)
Urijah Faber vs. Takeya Mizugaki
Scott Jorgensen vs. Brad Pickett*
Zach Micklewright vs. Bart Palaszewski
Anthony Pettis vs. Shane Roller

The California State Athletic Commission released the payroll for this past weekends “Strikeforce and M-1 Global: Fedor vs. Werdum” event. Topping the payroll was Russian heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko who earned $400,000 in his loss against Fabricio Werdum. The total payroll for the entire event was $788,800.
MMAWeekly.com posted the fighter payouts.
-Fabricio Werdum: $100,000 def. Fedor Emelianenko: [...]

Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion Alistair Overeem feels Fedor Emelianenko ducked him and is ready to rematch Fabricio Werdum.

A middleweight bout between Kendall Grove and Goran Reljic has been demoted to UFC 116′s un-aired preliminary card, and a light-heavyweight fight between Seth Petruzelli and Ricardo Romero has been promoted to its slot on UFC 116′s “UFC Prelims” special on Spike TV.
The source said Grove prompted the change after the fighter openly criticized the [...]

Fedor Emelianenko Apologizes For Loss

Strikeforce / M-1 Global – Fedor vs. Werdum
Strikeforce
June 26, 2010
HP Pavilion,
San Jose, California, United States