At first I thought the UFC matchmakers were just being paranoid. As soon as they showed up for their USA TODAY photo shoot in the bowels of Winnipeg’s MTS Centre before UFC 161 in June, Zuffa executives Joe Silva and Sean Shelby couldn’t stop joking – half-seriously, it seemed – about the possibility that this was all an elaborate setup.
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