Is your home missing a little something? You just don't know how to spruce up the joint? Maybe what you're missing is a little bit of Rush:

Now you can add a life-size cardboard cutout of Canada's favorite fighter to your home. Stand him right next to your china cabinet, or have him lean against the side of your TV stand. GSP will make a lovely addition to any home. Maybe BJ Penn will even want it for his home in Hawaii?

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Affliction suffered more public relations damage last week, though this time it didn't have anything to do with fighters or executives who liked to punch pregnant women. This time, it was due to a shirt that they were selling at Nordstrom's.

This shirt, in addition to being ugly, is rather offensive to Catholics. Judy Carbo, a woman who happened to be shopping at Nordstrom, said so, and the shirt was pulled from the racks. What Carbo did not do was truly explain why the shirt was offensive, and why Affliction should put a little more thought into their designs. This shirt resembles a painting of Virgin Mary holding Jesus, but Mary is depicted as a skeleton. Catholics believe that Mary did not die, and was assumed, body and all, into heaven. The idea of Mary as a skeleton is in direct contrast to our beliefs.

One badly designed, offensive shirt would not be noticed in the grand scheme of things if it weren't part of a series of missteps by the company. When MMA is fighting for

After disappointing UFC 90 pay-per-view numbers, the UFC is clearly looking to suck as much as they can out of their two biggest draws, Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell:

Chuck Liddell is currently in negotiations to move to heavyweight in order to fight Randy Couture. The proposed fight would take place on June 13th in Cologne, Germany.

Liddell is known to walk around at 220 lbs., so a jump to heavyweight isn't out of the question for him. With three losses as a light heavyweight, he is out of the championship picture, but that wouldn't necessarily be so at heavyweight. Couture weighed 220 when he fought Brock Lesnar so the two fighters could negate any weight advantage. This fight is a fan's dream, and will help the UFC assert itself in the European market. That is all fine and good.

Ostensibly, the winner of this fight would get a chance at the belt in late 2009. This is where I have a problem. First, why would any up-and-coming heavyweight fighter -- Shane Carwin, Junior Dos

A week that was supposed to be about Brock Lesnar and Kenny Florian turned on a dime to focus on Dana White's tantrum over the American Kickboxing Academy.

Late Wednesday night, Dana White announced that Jon Fitch was no longer part of the UFC. By Thursday night, Lorenzo Fertitta had cleaned up the mess and AKA fighters were once again welcome in the UFC. The turn of events was bizarre, to say the least. Was this an orchestrated plan from Zuffa, or a childish temper tantrum from White? No matter what, it was bad business and the UFC came out of it with egg on their face.

With that out of the way, the MMA world is free to focus on what matters: who is the best fighter in the world? Yahoo! Sports weighs in on the subject with its latest rankings.

The boxing vs. mixed martial arts debate rages on with a shot at MMA from boxing promoter Todd DuBoef. Can't we all just get along? Except, you know, when we're beating the crap out of each other. Ricky "Hitman" Hatton thinks we can.

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I wish I could explain Dana White's decision to cut not just Jon Fitch, but ties with American Kickboxing Academy. It makes no sense to me, and it may rid the UFC of some great fighters, not only in Fitch, but possibly in Cain Velasquez and Josh Koscheck. I can't fathom why they can't get together on a contract, so I won't try to explain it. Instead, let's take a look back at one of Fitch's funniest interview. He tells us how cutting weight can affect his manhood and why fighters tug on their shorts before weighing in. The language is not safe for work.

In a surprisingly good episode of the Ultimate Fighter, we get to see a good fight, some training and why you don't mess with a man's cereal.

When discussing Krzystof's (heretofore to be known as K) win over Kyle Kingsbury, Junie Browning says that his sister could have caught Kyle in an arm bar. That might be true, but since going off the sauce, Junie sure has become a grump. Going into the final first round fight, Mir has four guys still alie, and Nog has three. John "the Hugger" Polakowski and George Roop are next to decide the last fighter to move on.

Junie calls John nuts. Pot. Kettle. Anyway, John says that he likes to give long hugs and really let people now how he feels. He also had Efrain do a painting that says "Fire the Cannons" to get himself worked up for the fight. Whatever works for you, John.

Roop is a classic, skinny white boy who learned to fight to defend himself. (See McCrory, Tamdan.) Roop's right hand got twisted up in training and he is having trouble making a

Paulo Filho, the former World Extreme Cagefighting champ, makes me sad. He was not brought over to the UFC's stable of fighters after the WEC dissolved his weight class. Filho's bizarre behavior in a loss to Chael Sonnen, his inability to make weight and decision to ship the championship belt to Sonnen all played a factor in his release from Zuffa.

His strange odyssey puts him in a sad group of athletes who have wasted their talents. The gifted running back Ricky Williams retired from the NFL rather than face a suspension for marijuana use. Maurice Clarett descended quickly from a top prospect to Grey Goose-guzzling, unemployed football player. Denny McLain, the Detroit pitcher who was the last to win 30 games, watched a career fizzle after becoming too close with organized crime figures. The list goes on and on.

Hopefully, Filho will get some help and be able to come back to mixed martial arts as he could truly make some waves. The names above haven't completely ended in sad stories.

Of the many experiences in MMA, the one I'd least like to experience is being choked out. That makes me different from Dewey Hammond from Hard for the Yard. In this video, he is choked out by Frank Shamrock, and it takes about .0005 seconds:

This gives me a little perspective on why a fighter might not be able to hold on for just a few more seconds when in a choke. It also gives me perspective on why I will run the other way if Frank Shamrock is walking in my direction.