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sports.yahoo.com - 5/17/2008

Carwin could be best of the bunch - MMA - Yahoo! Sports

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At a time when boxing can’t find a heavyweight coordinated enough to step between the ropes without tripping, mixed martial arts is overrun with quality heavyweights. Men like Fedor Emelianenko, UFC champion Randy Couture and UFC interim champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira are but a handful of the first-class big men in MMA. And with Brock Lesnar, Cain Velasquez and Shane Carwin on the horizon, ...

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