With UFC 102 in Portland, Oregon just 5 days away we thought looking back on Randy Couture’s first ever MMA fight vs Tony Halme would be a fitting Video of the Day. Watch as the inexperienced Couture uses his wrestling to put Halme down to win his MMA debut.24 fights and 12 years later Couture is recognized as one of the greatest MMA fighters in the history of the sport and we can’t wait to see him in action again Saturday night.

Lesnar vs. Carwin UFC Heavyweight Title. Las Vegas in November. This will be unreal. Here is Carwin knocking out former title contender Gabe Gonzaga.

It’s Friday so we’re dreaming a little bit, but let’s hope that GSP can put on some size in the next year or two and move up to challenge Anderson Silva. Do it in Toronto or Montreal and make it the biggest fight the UFC has ever seen. You guys want to see this? Here is an awesome promo video for this fight below.

Our video of the day comes from Brazil where Lightheavyweight superstar Shogun Rua and Heavyweight contender Junior Dos Santos spar in the cage. Dos Santos is coming off a knock out wins over Fabricio Werdum at UFC 90 and Stefan Struve at UFC 95. He will be facing his toughest opponent yet when he faces Mirko Cro Cop at UFC 103 in September. Shogun is coming off back to back wins over Mark Coleman and Chuck Liddell. He will fight for the title against Lyoto Machida at UFC 104 in October. While watching the video take note that their intensity and speed remains the same throughout the sparring session which is how you should train for a fight. Enjoy!

Huge night for the UFC as UFC 101 will have a Lightweight title fight between Kenny Florian and BJ Penn as well as a super fight between Forrest Griffin and Anderson Silva. Check out Videos of the Day below with highlights from each fighter. Florian is first up followed by Penn and Silva after the jump. Enjoy the fights everyone.

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Strikeforce made a big splash this week with their signing of Fedor. Great news for them. But one of their biggest stars has been inactive for quite some time. I’m talking about Cung Le of course who beat down Frank Shamrock in March of 2008 aand has been off filming movies ever since. While we patiently wait for the return of Le, let’s watch this highlight video to remind ourselves how good he is.

In todays Video of the day we have MMA legend Frank Shamrock demonstrating kicking for Yardbarker.com Frank is one of the pioneers of MMA and one of the best instructors in the business. Take a few minutes and watch as Frank shows how kicks are set up and executed.

This intereview is about 3 months old, but since this is a small Canadian show we assumed many of you hadn’t seen it before. Dana White was great in his conference call yesterday. Once again claiming he tried everything to get Fedor to the UFC and the reality is he did. Check out the video below for some insight from Mr. White on the business of MMA.

M1 Global is making negotiations with Fedor and the UFC very difficult and some would say impossible. Right now most of the MMA world hates M1 Global because we may never see Lesnar vs. Fedor. But not many people know about M1 Global, so we thought we’d share their promo video with you. The production is actually pretty good, but we still hate you M1 Global.

Fedor is coming to the UFC…. Absolutely Never!! Fedor and M1 Global want to co-promote with the UFC. That is not going to happen. So we’ve prepared yet another highlight of the man you may never see in the UFC. Watch and read as the current top UFC fighters give their opinion on Fedor.