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UFC NEWS – Frank Mir Happy To Welcome Strikeforce Heavyweights To The UFC

Found December 20, 2011 on BJPenn.com - MMA News:
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“We don’t have the type of depth that the other weight classes have and I think it’s only a benefit to move them (Strikeforce heavyweights) over to us. I guess I have a bad taste in my mouth because of what happened when I first started my career. I had to always hear about, ‘Oh, [...]


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