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This weekend has 2 events I look forward to watching. On Saturday they have an Elite XC event featuring K J Noons vs Yves Edwards and a co feature with Nick Diaz vs Muhsin Corbbrey. The rest of the card looks OK with Ninja fighting too. This will be on Showtime:

Rafael Feijao vs. Wayne Cole (Pictures)
Dave Herman (Pictures) vs. Ron Waterman (Pictures)
Murilo Rua (Pictures) vs. Tony Bonello (Pictures)
Nick Diaz (Pictures) vs. Muhsin Corbbrey (Pictures)
Karl James Noons (Pictures) vs. Yves Edwards

On HDNET they have a fight card that same night called Adrenaline MMA and the fight card looks like this:

Main Card
Joe Pearson (22-9) vs. John Hosman (8-3-1)
Louis Taylor (4-0) vs. Adam Maciejewski (6-4)
Joe Jordan (41-11) vs. Ryan Williams (6-1)
Dom O’Grady (5-0) vs. Mike Stumpf (9-1)
Hector Urbina (11-3) vs. Dave Kleczkowski (6-3)
Aaron Rosa (10-2) vs. Ron Fields (23-24-1)
Herc Hayes (7-5) vs. Kerry Schall (22-9)

INTERMISSION
Jameel Massouh (15-3) vs. Clay French (14-2)
Jay Ellis (11-15) vs. Rory Markham (14-4)
Jeff Cox (9-6) vs. Bart Palaszewski (28-11)
Anthony Lapsley (13-3) vs. Mark Miller (9-3)
Forrest Petz (11-5) vs. Brian Gassaway (25-17-1)
Daiju Takase (7-11) vs. Terry Martin (16-4)

Main Event
Jason Guida (23-17) vs. Mike Russow (9-1)

I don’t recognize most of these fighters but I will have it tivo’d and see if any of them are fun to watch.

Then on Sunday, we have HDNET showing the Japanese production of Dream 4 which has the fightcard looking like this officially:

Dream 4 Bouts (officially announced):

Lightweight Grand Prix Second Round bout:
-Shinya Aoki vs. Katsuhiko Nagata

Special Rules Grappling Match:
-Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic vs. Ralek Gracie

Middleweight Grand Prix Second Round (16-man tournament)
-Gegard Mousasi vs. Dong Sik Yoon
-Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Melvin Manhoef
-Zelg Gelasic vs. Taiei Kin
-Jason “Mayhem” Miller vs. Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza

Non-tournament Bouts:
-Alistair Overeem vs. Tae Hyun Lee
-Alavutdin Gadzhiyev vs. Alexandre “Cacareco” Ferreira
-Hideo Tokoro vs. Darren Uyenoyama

We already know that CroCop is out. Good fights should be put on by Sakuraba, Mayhem, and Overeem. All of them are very entertaining and action oriented fighters.  Also, no PPV fees to watch these fights. SWEET!