T*U Fighter of the Year

FEUD OF THE YEAR (Category 7 of 9)
Man was there ever a lotta shit talkin' this year, and if ya can belive it, Tito and Dana weren't involved in every single one of 'em. Some were settled in the ring and it sounds like some are headin' to court. Either way, this year's feuds added a ton of extra juice to a bunch of organizations.

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	Dana White v Randy Couture UFC Couture’s blood has apparently been boilin’ for a while now over the contracts Dana White and the UFC have been offering him, culminating in Randy resigning from the UFC and sayin’ he’ll have nuthin’ to do with them ever again. With Couture wanting a fight with Fedor and Dana not lettin’ that happen, this one might even end up in the courthouse.
	Dana White v Fedor & Vadim Finklestien UFC/Pride/M-1 With Dana calling Fedor’s camp crazy during contract negotiations and Vadim finally biggin’ up M-1 basically as a slap in the face to Dana, you know these three aren’t gonna be splittin’ a bowl of borscht anytime soon.
	Michael Bisping v Matt Hamill UFC These two hated each other on the TUF show, with Hamill thinkin’ he woulda won had Bisping not injured him during training. Their controversial match in London proved nothing and both guys are taking shots at each other via their websites.
	Tito Ortiz v Rashad Evans UFC Although Tito likes to talk shit to anyone he’s fighting, these two almost came to blows in the crowd at a UFC show and they didn’t even know the cameras were on ‘em. The hate here is real yo. Their iffy draw isn’t gonna help things either.
	UFC v Pride Pride came to the US at the end of ’06 and then again this year, going toe-to-toe with the UFC and tryin’ to win over their hometown crowd in Vegas. Dana dropped the coin to buy ‘em out and basically put them to bed when he closed up the Pride digs in Japan in October. Now with the old Pride nine-to-fivers hookin' up with M1, you know this shit is gonna get real ugly next year.
	Frank Shamrock v Phil Baroni Strikeforce Two of the biggest shit disturbers to ever come out of the sport, Baroni and Shamrock finally threw down with Frank spankin’ Phil’s ass in San Jose. Youtube these guys if you wanna see the vids Shamrock made mocking Baroni.
	Matt Hughes v Matt Serra UFC Serra’s hate for Hughes started back on the TUF show he ended up winning and has escalated to the point that the two are starring as coaches on the current TUF. Now with Serra hurtin' his back and Hughes saying he fought Royce with a similar injury, you can bet Serra is gonna rehab his ass off to roll with Hughes ASAP.
	BJ Penn v Jens Pulver UFC The hate started way back in ’02 when Pulver edged out Penn in a crazy 25 minute war. There’s been a ton of shit talking through the media for the past five years, but it all ended this year when Penn choked Pulver out and made sure he held on a couple seconds extra. Even though they hugged it out, the lead up to this one was heated.
	Tito Ortiz v Dana White UFC This is one that’s been a steady back-and-forth for a while now, but this year saw Dana talking shit about both Tito and his girl, Jenna Jamieson. Spike even ended up producing a special highlighting the hatred these two have for one another, which ended up solving nada. Both claim the hate here is as real as it gets.
	Frank Shamrock v Josh Thomson Strikeforce Apparently Thomson was pissed that Shamrock was telling people he trained/made a lot of the boys at the AKA camp (which Josh says never happened), pushing Josh to wear a tee at a show reading “Frank Glamrock is my Bitch”. Frank responded by saying that Thomson is the first openly gay fighter at the Playboy show broadcast. Next step, Josh says he might be suing him for slander.

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