The Choke MMA Show is back with another episode of UFC chatter with hosts Erik Fontanez and E. Spencer Kyte. This week, the guys welcome Sports Illustrated MMA writer Jeff Wagenheim to talk UFC Fight Night 26 in Boston. Also, the biggest MMA news stories of the week, including Rousey going Carano and Bellator PPV pipe dreams.

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The www.graciemag.com Choke MMA Podcast is back for Episode 5! Erik Fontanez (www.twitter.com/Erik_Fontanez) and E. Spencer Kyte (www.twitter.com/spencerkyte) talk Rampage to Bellator, MMA legalization in Canada, and preview UFC on Fuel TV 10.

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The Choke MMA Podcast is back with Episode 4, this time BleacherReport.com’s Duane Finley co-hosts and the guys discuss Nate Diaz’s naughty tweet, UFC suspensions and UFC on FX 8 preview.

Erik and Spencer are back with the third episode of the GRACIEMAG Choke MMA Podcast. This week, the fellas talk Anderson Silva’s fine, Shane Carwin’s retirement and the rest of the week’s news in MMA. And for the first time, the guys answer listener mail! Check it out!

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It’s GRACIEMAG.com’s Choke MMA Podcast! In the premier episode, hosts Erik Fontanez and E. Spencer Kyte review the week in news, including Matt Mitrione’s suspension, if Dominick Cruz should be stripped of his title, and the discussion of the report about Phil Davis’ baby mama drama. The guys also preview UFC 159 and the main event between light heavyweight champ Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen.

The show airs every Friday, so be sure to subscribe to the GRACIEMAG YouTube page so that you catch every episode.

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Tune in today, April 26, at 3:00 p.m. PT for the premier of the Choke MMA Podcast on GRACIEMAG.com.

The show’s hosts, Erik Fontanez, assistant editor at GRACIEMAG, and E. Spencer Kyte, writer for Sportsnet.ca and The Province newspaper’s Keyboard Kimura blog, catch you up on all the week’s happenings in MMA and the UFC. This week, the guys will also preview UFC 159, which takes place tomorrow in Newark N.J.

The Choke MMA Podcast will play every Friday, so be sure to subscribe the GRACIEMAG YouTube page for all the episodes. And don’t forget to follow Erik and Spencer on Twitter: @Erik_Fontanez & @spencerkyte.

Alistair Overeem stands in the Octagon before his bout against Brock Lesnar during the UFC 141 event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on December 30, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos took a shot at fellow heavyweight Alistair Overeem on Wednesday, implying that the Dutch fighter’s skills are artificially enhanced.

When asked if he prefers fighting someone respectful like Cain Velasquez or someone who has talked a lot of trash about him like Alistair Overeem, dos Santos told members of the press that he would rather face a professional than someone made by science.

“Guys like me and Cain Velasquez, we are made at the gym. Guys like the other guy, they are made at the laboratory,” dos Santos said on a media call. “I prefer to fight against … clean athletes and real professionals. Cain Velasquez is one of these — he’s a real professional fighter and that’s a good challenge for me. I know he’s very tough and how hard I have to train to face him. Other guys, they just say things, but there is nothing behind the words.”

“Cigano” will defend his heavyweight title against Velasquez at UFC 155 on Dec. 29. The two met before at the inaugural UFC on FOX event in November 2011 — the event that dos Santos originally won the title from Velasquez.

Following the UFC on FOX match-up, much of the talk regarding dos Santos’ next opponent centered around Overeem, and the fight was scheduled for UFC 146. Plans to make the bout happen came to halt, however, when “The Reem” was suspended for elevated levels of testosterone from a surprise test administered by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Overeem has been unable to compete as a result since then.

UFC 156 will mark Overeem’s return to the octagon when he faces off with Brazil’s Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva. The match-up will be part of the UFC’s traditional Super Bowl card, which features several other former title holders, and is headlined by Jose Aldo defending his featherweight belt against former lightweight champ Frankie Edgar.

When asked who he feels would win between Overeem and Silva, dos Santos was quick to pick his fellow Brazilian as the winner because he feels Bigfoot has more technique. Although no official announcement has been made, the winner of the Overeem-Silva bout is expected to face the winner between dos Santos and Velasquez.

UFC 155 will take place at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

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Following Dan Henderson’s striking coach airing his grievances about Ronda Rousey headlining a UFC card in favor of his fighter, Rousey’s manager, Darin Harvey, said he would feel the same way if he was on the other side.

Harvey told GRACIEMAG.com that the move by the UFC to headline their February Pay-Per-View with his client over Henderson, simply put, is a good business decision. The manager acknowledges, however, that he gets it. Harvey wouldn’t be pleased with the decision if he managed “Hendo.”

“I’m a huge Dan Henderson fan,” he said on Tuesday afternoon. “He can beat anybody in the world on any given day in so many different weight classes. So if I was his management, I guess I would be a little bit upset.”

The February fight card is billed with Rousey as the women’s UFC champion defending her title against Strikeforce and Invicta FC veteran Liz Carmouche in the main event. Henderson will face former light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida as the co-main event.

Gus Pugliese, the Team Quest coach that posted on Facebook about why he disagrees with Rousey and Carmouche getting top billing, went on to say that there’s a pecking order for earning opportunities like this one. Henderson and Machida, he said, are high on that pecking order. Rousey, he added, is getting a free ride.

“I believe in paying dues,” he told GRACIEMAG.com earlier today. “In this particular case, Hendo and Machida paid their dues a long time ago. For someone new to come in and have a free ride just seems unfair to them and the whole sport they helped build.”

In reaction, Harvey said that MMA is a business as much as it is a sport. From a marketing perspective, the UFC is doing the right thing, he said, by placing Rousey as the headliner because she’s capable of creating a whole new fan base. His fighter has been featured in Esquire Magazine, Sports Illustrated, as well as doing spots on television with Conan O’Brien and Jim Rome. The mainstream attention requires a full-time public relations representative, he added, and the publicist has no other clients beyond Rousey.

“[The UFC] thinks that Ronda’s going to draw more attention to the sport and the event,” Harvey said. “And it’s for a world title, whether they want to acknowledge it or not.

“No other athlete in the history of MMA has ever accomplished what Ronda has by finishing all her opponents, amateur and pro, within the first round, eight of them within the first minute. It’s unprecedented.

“Ronda is a huge draw right now.”

UFC 157 will take place on Feb. 23, 2013, at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.

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**An earlier version of this story was missing the quote from Harvey saying “No other athlete in the history of MMA has ever accomplished what Ronda has by finishing all her opponents, amateur and pro, within the first round, eight of them within the first minute. It’s unprecedented.”

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Por uma razão: os dois veículos da Editora Gracie vão mudar. E você não perde por esperar nas bancas, quando setembro chegar.

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A primeira edição de NOCAUTE, e a capa da CHOKE MMA número 1.

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