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The weekend of MMA madness starts tonight with a co-sponsored Elite XC and Strikeforce card in California. The undercard will be shown online for free, and the main portion of the show featuring Frank Shamrock versus 'The New York Badass' Phil Baroni will only be on PPV. We'll have results early tomorrow after they are available on www.Sherdog.com - in the interim here's their list of fighters scheduled to appear including Murilo 'Ninja' Rua, who was cleared late and is now back on the card.
Frank Shamrock vs. Phil Baroni
Joey Villasenor vs. Murilo Rua
Paul Buentello vs. Carter Williams
Cung Le vs. Tony Fryklund
Charles Bennett vs. Victor Valenzuela
Paul Daley vs. Duane Ludwig
Jason Von Flue vs. Luke Stewart
Mike Pyle vs. Aaron Wetherspoon
Eugene Jackson vs. Danny Higgins
Josh Thomson vs. Nick Gonzalez
Hip-Hop artist Rich Boy will also be doing a live performance during the show. You can watch a promo video for Shamrock v. Baroni here and read the news from Sherdog on Rua being cleared here. Bad news for Falaniko Vitale as he's now off the card, good news for fight fans since Rua and Villasenor will compete for the vacant EliteXC middleweight title.
UFC's Ultimate Fighter V Finale is free this Saturday on SpikeTV and the lineup can be found on our website here. SpikeTV is airing a special called "Bad Blood: BJ Penn vs. Jens Pulver" tonight at midnight EST/11:00 Central and the finale itself takes place tomorrow at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central. Personally I think Manny Gamburyan is going to knock Diaz' block off in the co-main and Penn will finally get his revenge and tap out Pulver, but we'll see what happens. AngryMarks.com will provide coverage of the show either during or after it takes place.
As if that wasn't enough Cage Fury Fighting Championships is holding their CFFC 5 show tomorrow night with the professional MMA debut of famed street fighter Kimbo Slice taking on Ray Mercer. Frank Trigg will be hosting the event. It's really a one fight card in my opinion but if you're interested www.Sherdog.com lists the rest of the lineup. It's curious to note that Noah Inhofer, who was famously kicked off Ultimate Fighter, is listed on the undercard.
Ray Mercer vs. Kimbo Slice
Josh Rhodes vs. Noah Inhofer
Devidas Taurosevicius vs. Kevin Roddy
Gregor Gracie vs. Josh Lydell
Dante Rivera vs. Alexis Aquino
Mike Varner vs. Nick Serra
Jim Miller vs. Anthony Morrison
Nick Catone vs. John Howard
Doug Gordon vs. Lyman Good
Brian DeMuro vs. Al Buck
And if all that wasn't enough Frank Mir and Renato 'Babalu' Sobral will compete at a Tuff-N-Uff's 'Unarmed Combat' submission show tonight at the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. This may be the craziest weekend in MMA's history. The only way this could be any bigger were if K-1 were running a show too. Oh wait - THEY ARE!!