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Football fans know that on Sunday, the Bears will play the Packers for a shot at the Super Bowl. It’s kind of a huge deal here in Chicago (you can read all my Bears-related blogging here, and all of Yahoo! Sports’ awesome NFL coverage here), but the Bears might not have reached the NFC Championship game without Pro Bowl linebacker Brian Urlacher. It turns out that Brian Urlacher might not be where he is without the kindness of MMA legend Bas Rutten.

So on behalf of all Bears fans, thank you, Bas, and thank you to the bouncers who stepped in and prevented Urlacher from getting the liver shot that Bas would have certainly delivered.

Thanks to Chicago’s MMA.

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Mark Hominick will face Jose Aldo as the co-main event at the Rogers Centre.

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by Michael David SmithThe polling firm Harris Interactive regularly surveys Americans to find out their favorite sports, and the results of this year’s poll are in. Check out the results and you’ll see about what you’d expect: Pro football is clearly America’s most well loved sport, baseball is next, then college football, auto racing, basketball and hockey.

What you won’t see anywhere is mixed martial arts.

The reason? MMA wasn’t even one of the choices Harris Interactive gave to poll respondents.

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Torrential rains in parts of Brazil triggered landslides that have killed more than 500 people. This has had a chilling effect on the MMA community, so closely tied with Brazil.

To lend a helping hand, the MMA teams at American Top Team and Team Armory have joined together to found Combat Athlete Charities. Money raised will buy food and shelter for people in Nova Friburgo.

MMA manager Alex Davis, a driving force behind Combat Athlete Charities, is in Nova Friburgo, one of the worst-hit areas and also the home to UFC fighter Edson Barboza, to help with relief efforts. He described the scene to MMA Junkie:

"There are entire regions that have been wiped out. Thousands of people are without water and food. Hundreds of people, if not thousands, are buried under mudslides so deep that they will never be found. Whole families have been wiped out. It’s to the point that there may be no one left to even remind us that these people were once there. [...]

"Roads and bridges have all been wiped out, leaving thousands of people isolated with no water, no food, no electricity." 

The landslide has already claimed the mother of Pablo Popovitch, a BJJ world champ and Abu Dhabi champion, and he’s asking for help in saving his father’s life. UFC fighter Kenny Florian supported Popovitch, using his Twitter account to question for donations and support for his friend. 

Brazil’s effect on MMA is undeniable. The sport owes its beginnings to the Brazilian Gracie family, and today, three of the top five pound-for-pound fighters are Brazilian. 

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Vitaly Petrov says the security of his new two-year deal leaves him feeling ‘free’ going into his second Formula 1 season with Renault. The team waited until the end of 2010 before re-signing Petrov, having been concerned that he could not consistently deliver his best form

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UFC light heavyweight Jon Jones escaped disaster on Wednesday, walking away from a car accident just weeks before his bout with Ryan Bader at UFC 126. He tweeted a picture of his car afterwards, and said that the other driver had to be taken away in a stretcher.

This was a stroke of luck for Jones, because the bout with Bader is key to both men’s careers. They have both risen through the ranks of the UFC, seemingly on a collision course. But was it luck? Or is he … unbreakable?

In a rough and tumble sport like MMA, Jones has suffered very few injuries or cuts. Though he’s broken an opponent’s face, Jones has never even had a medical suspension for his UFC bouts. That could be because he is young and in brilliant condition, or it’s because he’s the inspiration for the 2000 M.Night Shymalan movie "Unbreakable."

*He’s not really starring in "Unbreakable 2," because I’m pretty sure "Unbreakable" was too terrible of a movie to duplicate.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/Jones-escapes-car-accident-unscathed-will-star-?urn=mma-310186

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We like these paintings by our latest featured ocean artist; Marc Christian Kunze from Santa Cruz, California. Take a look, We’re sure you’ll like them too? Let us know what you reckon… 

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Although Britain’s once-mighty car empire has been firesaled to the Indians, Chinese, and Germans, there’s one market segment still humming along in Blighty: shed sports cars. One of the still-living firms is Noble, which found tremendous success with a Porsche 911 Turbo?rivaling model called the M400 and its predecessor, the M12 GTO-3R. The plot for [...]

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Welcome to our latest featured surf photographer; Shelli Bankier from the Gold Coast of Australia. The beauty of the blue sphere…

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It´s my 5th time up here in Sylt. 2005, 2007 till 2010. This time we see a very cool Sylt. So far the wind never picked up above 20 knots and no huge onshore waves crashed on the shore of Westerland. 6 days of the event are over and 4 days more are to go. [...]

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Cody McKenzie lost to Yves Edwards, but he proved he’s a pretty solid mixed martial artist. The goofiest character to emerge from Season 12 of "The Ultimate Fighter" built his reputation on finishing opponents with a guillotine choke and talking to smack to Josh Koscheck. At Fight for the Troops 2, Edwards finished McKenzie with a rear-naked choke, but the bearded Alaskan showed he’s got more to his arsenal.

McKenzie (12-1, 1-1 UFC) is learning on the job. His striking is very unorthodox, so he got picked apart in the first by Edwards. That may have led the veteran to sleep on him a bit to start the second.

McKenzie dragged Edwards (40-16, 8-4 UFC) to the ground with 3:33 left in the second, eventually got his back and pounded away for a few minutes. McKenzie’s attack was relentless. Edwards survived that near two-minute onslaught and scrambled back to his feet. McKenzie got a small overanxious when he tried to get it down again. Edwards won the scramble this time and McKenzie found himself mounted. He eventually gave up his back where Edwards slapped on a nasty choke. McKenzie refused to tap and went out at 4:33 of the second.  

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DaMarques Johnson has had distress showing consistency since his stint on TUF 9. Tonight might be a leaping point for Johnson. He schooled Mike Guymon on the ground eventually taking the veteran’s back and locking his legs in a body lock. Guymon tried to get to his knees, but was flattened out. Johnson (12-8, 3-2 UFC) wisely squeezed the hold and pulled up on Guymon’s neck. "The Joker" couldn’t take the pain for more than a few seconds and verbally tapped.

When he tried to rise to his feet, Guymon (12-5, 1-3 UFC) yelped and rolled back to the floor. UFC analyst Joe Rogan said he thought he saw something protruding from Guymon’s back. 

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If you weren’t already aware… A couple of weeks back we started a new feature on Club Of The Waves whereby YOU can interview your favourite surf artist or photographer! So far we’ve had a fantastic response! Going through fans’ suggestions we noticed we had two for surf artist Heather Brown, so we thought that would be a excellent place to start… Visit the site to see what Samantha (Hawaii) and Chris (England) questioned her…

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Jose Aldo finally has an opponent. Mark Hominick was offered the chance to take on the UFC’s featherweight champ if he could win tonight at Fight for the Troops 2. Josh Grispi had the same opportunity at UFC 125, but blew it with a loss to Dustin Poirier. Hominick learned the lesson and delivered huge time by smoking George Roop in less than two minutes. The Canadian scored a TKO end at 1:28 of the first round to make his title shot official.

"If you’re next in line for a title shot you got go out there and prove it," Hominick told UFC analyst Joe Rogan. "I believe my standup is far superior to everybody in the featherweight division, but you have to show it. You have to prove it in the cage."

Whether he’s the best striker up for debate, but there is no argument that he is incredibly composed on the feet. The much taller Roop tried to stay on the go and catch Hominick off guard by throwing kicks, punches and knees from odd angles.

Hominick calmly stalked Roop and picked his spot. After Roop threw a bone idle jab, Hominick floored him with a straight just 36 seconds into the fight. Instead of jumping into Roop’s guard, Hominick backed up and waved for the fallen fighter to get up.

Roop never seemed right the rest of the fight. He also fell into a terrible habit by constantly moving to his left. With 3:54 remaining, Hominick nailed Roop with a left hook and eight seconds later he stunned him with a straight right. Roops was out of it and got caught with another huge left hook. Down he went and with Roop’s hands at his sides, Hominick nailed him one more time. Referee Don Turnage jumped in to stop the fight. Roop protested, but when he rose to his feet he stumbled across the Octagon.

Hominick’s been rumored to face Aldo at UFC 129 in Toronto.

"Jose’s next. I reckon he’s the best pound for pound, but he’s never faced anyone like me," Hominick said. "I’m going to go out there and prove it." 

The UFC is set to debut in Ontario in April. Hominicks’ hometown is 100 miles to the south of Toronto.

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