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Dan Hardy on the evolution of striking in MMA: "It’s interesting – when the UFC first started, the first evolution of the sport was cutting out all those crazy moves, bringing it right down to what worked. MMA almost became a style in itself, and everyone did the same moves. But there’s a lot of traditional stuff that works, because there’s such a huge range of techniques that it’s impossible to look out for them all. I think there are a lot of moves from sanda [the Chinese combat style also known as sanshou] and tae kwon do that haven’t been seen yet in MMA that would work, and we’ll see them eventually."

Kyle Wellwood and Ryan Johnson to become UFAs tomorrow. No talks going on with Canucks.
Canucks also intend to cut ties with D Willie Mitchell, also bound for free agency tomorrow.