Five Ounces of Pain: Year-end awards

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In a sport that never gets boring, 2007 proved to be one of the wildest years in recent memory for mixed martial arts. It featured a myriad of stunning upsets, a host of incredible matches that usually involved lighter-weight fighters, the fall of Pride, the launch of several new competitors to the UFC and much more. I decided the best way to look back at the year that was in MMA was to ... [link]

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New CBSSports.com column: MMA award winners for ‘07
Published 12/28/2007 by Sam Caplan at Five Ounces of Pain
My latest CBSSports.com is now available for your reading pleasure. For this week’s topic, I decided to name my award winners in MMA for 2007. Categories include: - Fighter of the Year - Promotion of the Year - Card of the Year - Match of the Year - Most Improved Fighter of the Year - Breakthrough Fighter of the Year - And more! Click here to read the article. Special thanks to Luke Thomas of BloodyElbow.com, Adam Morgan of FiveOuncesOfPain.com, and Jordan Breen of ...

2007 Year End MMA Awards
Published 12/28/2007 by Luke Thomas <info@bloodyelbow.com> at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
Sam Caplan's got a new piece up over at CBS Sportsline detailing the year's biggest winners in the MMA fight game. Your's truly offered some opinions in there as well. Check it out.

UFC Champion Rampage Jackson earns mainstream media year-end honors
Published 1/3/2008 by MMAmania at UFC blog for UFC news, results, videos, rumors, fights, pics and tickets -- MMAmania.com
... I have no problems with the selection; however the list of other candidates is a bit off. Sam Caplan over at CBSSports.com makes a better case (for the same fighter, Rampage.) ...

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