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Cain Velasquez

Index Cain Velasquez

Cain Velasquez (born July 28, 1982) is an American mixed martial artist. [1]

104 relations: Alistair Overeem, American Kickboxing Academy, Anaheim, California, Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Antônio Silva (fighter), Arizona Interscholastic Association, Arizona State University, ASICS, Ben Rothwell, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Brock Lesnar, C. B. Dollaway, California, Campbell, California, Cheick Kongo, Chuck Liddell, Citizenship of the United States, Collegiate wrestling, Cologne, Conor McGregor, Dana White, Daniel Cormier, Exostosis, Fabrício Werdum, Frank Mir, Fresno, California, Heavyweight (MMA), High school football, Houston, Inside MMA, Iowa Central Community College, Jake O'Brien, Junior dos Santos, Kofa High School, Las Vegas, Leandro Vieira, List of current UFC fighters, List of How I Met Your Mother characters, List of male mixed martial artists, List of Pride Fighting Championships champions, List of UFC bonus award recipients, List of UFC champions, List of Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards, Lopez Tonight, Los Angeles, Mark Hunt, Mexico, Mexico City, Michael Bisping, Mixed martial arts, ..., MMA Live, MMAjunkie.com, Montreal, National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Junior College Athletic Association, NCAA Division I, Nevada, Pac-12 Conference, Quebec, Rotator cuff, Ryan Bader, Saint Petersburg, Salinas, California, San Jose, California, Shane Carwin, Sherdog, Sinaloa, SportsNation (TV series), Stipe Miocic, Strikeforce: Tank vs. Buentello, Sydney, Tampa, Florida, Tear of meniscus, Telemundo, Terra (company), The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America, Travis Browne, UFC 104, UFC 110, UFC 121, UFC 139, UFC 146, UFC 152, UFC 155, UFC 160, UFC 166, UFC 180, UFC 188, UFC 200, UFC 207, UFC 83, UFC 99, UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs. Thompson, UFC Fight Night: Lauzon vs. Stephens, UFC Fight Night: Silva vs. Irvin, UFC on Fox: Velasquez vs. dos Santos, UFC Primetime, Ultimate Fighting Championship, United World Wrestling, Univision, USA Wrestling, Wrestling, Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Yuma, Arizona. Expand index (54 more) »

Alistair Overeem

Alistair Cees Overeem is an English-born Dutch mixed martial artist and former kickboxer.

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American Kickboxing Academy

The American Kickboxing Academy (AKA) is a martial arts gym based in San Jose, California.

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Anaheim, California

Anaheim (pronounced) is a city in Orange County, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

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Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira

Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira (born June 2, 1976), better known as Minotauro, is a retired Brazilian mixed martial artist.

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Antônio Silva (fighter)

Antônio Carlos Silva (born September 14, 1979) is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and kickboxer who competes in the Heavyweight division.

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Arizona Interscholastic Association

The Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA) is one of two regulatory bodies for high school athletics and activities in the state of Arizona.

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Arizona State University

Arizona State University (commonly referred to as ASU or Arizona State) is a public metropolitan research university on five campuses across the Phoenix metropolitan area, and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona.

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ASICS

(stylized as asics) is a Japanese multinational corporation which produces footwear and sports equipment designed for a wide range of sports, generally in the upper price range.

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Ben Rothwell

Ben Rothwell (born October 17, 1981) is an American retired mixed martial artist who competed as a Heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

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Brazilian jiu-jitsu

Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ; jiu-jitsu brasileiro) is a martial art and combat sport system that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting.

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Brock Lesnar

Brock Edward Lesnar (born July 12, 1977) is an American-Canadian professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist and football player.

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C. B. Dollaway

Clarence Byron "C.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Campbell, California

Campbell is a city in Santa Clara County, California, and part of Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Cheick Kongo

Cheick Guillaume Ouedraogo (born May 17, 1975), more commonly known as Cheick Kongo, is a French heavyweight mixed martial artist and former kickboxer who fights in Bellator MMA.

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Chuck Liddell

Charles David "Chuck" Liddell (born December 17, 1969) is an American mixed martial artist and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion.

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Citizenship of the United States

Citizenship of the United States is a status that entails specific rights, duties and benefits.

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Collegiate wrestling

Collegiate wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practiced at the college and university level in the United States.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln,, Kölle) is the largest city in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth most populated city in Germany (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich).

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Conor McGregor

Conor Anthony McGregor (Conchúr Antóin Mac Gréagóir; born 14 July 1988) is an Irish professional mixed martial artist and boxer.

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Dana White

Dana Frederick White Jr. (born July 28, 1969) is an American businessman and the current President of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which is the largest mixed martial arts (MMA) organization in the world.

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Daniel Cormier

Daniel Cormier (born March 20, 1979) is an American mixed martial artist and former Olympic wrestler.

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Exostosis

An exostosis (plural: exostoses) or bone spur, is the formation of new bone on the surface of a bone.

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Fabrício Werdum

Fabrício Werdum (born August 24, 1977) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC Heavyweight Champion.

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Frank Mir

Francisco Santos "Frank" Mir III (born May 24, 1979) is an American mixed martial artist who competes for Bellator MMA in the Heavyweight division.

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Fresno, California

Fresno (Spanish for "ash tree") is a city in California, United States, and the county seat of Fresno County.

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Heavyweight (MMA)

The heavyweight division in mixed martial arts (MMA) generally groups fighters between.

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High school football

High school football is gridiron football played by high school teams in the United States and Canada.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Inside MMA

Inside MMA was a live mixed martial arts news magazine, which aired on AXS TV, immediately following the network's live AXS TV Fights broadcasts.

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Iowa Central Community College

Iowa Central Community College is a community college located in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States, with satellite campuses in Webster City and Storm Lake.

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Jake O'Brien

Jacob Allen O'Brien (born September 25, 1984) is a retired American professional mixed martial artist who most recently competed in the Heavyweight division.

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Junior dos Santos

Junior dos Santos Almeida (born January 30, 1984) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and a former UFC Heavyweight Champion.

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Kofa High School

Kofa High School is a high school in Yuma, Arizona.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.

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Leandro Vieira

Leandro Vieira is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor and competitor and a co-founder of Checkmat BJJ.

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List of current UFC fighters

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion, founded in 1993 by Art Davie and Rorion Gracie.

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List of How I Met Your Mother characters

The American sitcom How I Met Your Mother premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005.

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List of male mixed martial artists

This is a list of notable professional male mixed martial arts fighters in alphabetical order.

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List of Pride Fighting Championships champions

Below is a list of Pride Fighting Championships champions and title defenses.

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List of UFC bonus award recipients

UFC Bonus Awards are three separate cash bonuses usually awarded to four fighters after each UFC event, based on internal decision by UFC management.

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List of UFC champions

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champions are fighters who have won UFC championships.

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List of Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards

This is a list of both active and inactive Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards created by professional wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer.

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Lopez Tonight

Lopez Tonight is an American late-night television talk show that was hosted by comedian George Lopez.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Mark Hunt

Mark Richard Hunt (born 23 March 1974) is a New Zealand mixed martial artist and former kickboxer of Samoan descent, currently living in Sydney, Australia.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mexico City

Mexico City, or the City of Mexico (Ciudad de México,; abbreviated as CDMX), is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America.

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Michael Bisping

Michael Bisping (born 28 February 1979) is an English actor and retired mixed martial artist who competed in the Middleweight division of the UFC.

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Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport that allows striking and grappling, both standing and on the ground, using techniques from other combat sports and martial arts.

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MMA Live

MMA Live was a sports show about mixed martial arts.

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MMAjunkie.com

MMAjunkie is a news website that covers the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA).

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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National Junior College Athletic Association

The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), founded in 1938, is an association of community college and junior college athletic departments throughout the United States.

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NCAA Division I

NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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Pac-12 Conference

The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that operates in the Western United States, participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Rotator cuff

In anatomy, the rotator cuff) is a group of muscles and their tendons that act to stabilize the shoulder. Of the seven scapulohumeral muscles, four make up the rotator cuff. The four muscles are the supraspinatus muscle, the infraspinatus muscle, teres minor muscle, and the subscapularis muscle.

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Ryan Bader

Ryan DuWayne Bader (born June 7, 1983) is an American mixed martial artist who is currently signed with Bellator MMA and is the current Bellator Light Heavyweight World Champion.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Salinas, California

Salinas is the county seat and largest municipality of Monterey County, California.

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San Jose, California

San Jose (Spanish for 'Saint Joseph'), officially the City of San José, is an economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California.

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Shane Carwin

Shane Bannister Carwin (born January 4, 1975) is an American former mixed martial artist who competed in the Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

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Sherdog

Sherdog is an American website devoted to the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA).

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Sinaloa

Sinaloa, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Sinaloa (Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa), is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, compose the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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SportsNation (TV series)

SportsNation is a sports-related television program that airs on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNews.

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Stipe Miocic

Stipe Miocic (born 19 August 1982) is an American professional mixed martial artist of Croatian descent.

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Strikeforce: Tank vs. Buentello

Strikeforce: Tank vs.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.

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Tear of meniscus

A tear of a meniscus is a rupturing of one or more of the fibrocartilage strips in the knee called menisci.

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Telemundo

Telemundo is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal division NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises.

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Terra (company)

Terra Networks, S.A. is a Spanish Internet multinational company with headquarters in Spain and offices in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Peru.

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The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America

The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America (also known as The Ultimate Fighter: Team Velasquez vs. Team Werdum) is an installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)-produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter.

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Travis Browne

Travis Kuualiialoha Browne (born July 17, 1982) is an American mixed martial artist who competes as a heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

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UFC 104

UFC 104: Machida vs.

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UFC 110

UFC 110: Nogueira vs.

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UFC 121

UFC 121: Lesnar vs.

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UFC 139

UFC 139: Shogun vs.

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UFC 146

UFC 146: dos Santos vs.

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UFC 152

UFC 152: Jones vs.

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UFC 155

UFC 155: dos Santos vs.

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UFC 160

UFC 160: Velasquez vs.

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UFC 166

UFC 166: Velasquez vs.

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UFC 180

UFC 180: Werdum vs.

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UFC 188

UFC 188: Velasquez vs.

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UFC 200

UFC 200: Tate vs.

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UFC 207

UFC 207: Nunes vs.

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UFC 83

UFC 83: Serra vs.

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UFC 99

UFC 99: The Comeback was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on June 13, 2009 in Cologne, Germany.

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UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs. Thompson

UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs.

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UFC Fight Night: Lauzon vs. Stephens

UFC Fight Night: Lauzon vs.

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UFC Fight Night: Silva vs. Irvin

UFC Fight Night: Silva vs.

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UFC on Fox: Velasquez vs. dos Santos

UFC on Fox: Velasquez vs.

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UFC Primetime

UFC Primetime is a television series currently airing on FX in the United States.

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Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts organization based in Las Vegas, Nevada, that is owned and operated by parent company William Morris Endeavor.

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United World Wrestling

United World Wrestling (UWW) is the international governing body for the sport of amateur wrestling; its duties include overseeing wrestling at the Olympics.

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Univision

Univision is an American Spanish-language broadcast television network that is owned by Univision Communications.

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USA Wrestling

USA Wrestling (formerly known as the United States Wrestling Federation and as the United States Wrestling Association) is the organization that currently governs freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling in the United States.

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Wrestling

Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds.

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Wrestling Observer Newsletter

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter (WON) is a newsletter that covers professional wrestling and mixed martial arts.

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Yuma, Arizona

Yuma (Yuum) is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain_Velasquez

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