ESPN: The Magazine hits newsstands tomorrow with its first ever “Fiction Issue”, a full issue dedicated to literary fiction. The issue will merge sports and feature traditional short fiction pieces that explore alternate realities, myths and rumors that are hard to separate from truth.

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Fans Submitted Dream Fights That They Want to See

Fights don’t always end clean and decisions aren’t always cut and dry. Sometimes rivals have a score to settle. Fighter’s trash talk each other yet never make it into the ring. All of these are legit reason we fans demand to see a particular fight, but fight fans sometimes just get an idea that two fighters would make a good fight.

There are many reasons why fans demand fights but that are just what makes them fans. Below is a list of fights that fans want to see, along with the reason. They have been submitted by the fans and were originally displayed on the dream fight page.

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Faber, Pettis and Friends Hit Vegas in Oceans 11 Style

Check out the new line from FORM Athletics/KSwiss in this Ocean’s 11 type video of the FORM team in Las Vegas, featuring appearances from Urijah Faber, Mark Munoz, Jon Jones, Chad Mendes, Joseph Benavidez, Scott Jorgenson, Anthony Pettis and a lot of attractive women.

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UFC: What is wrong with the Former Champ Mike Brown?

Brown is just 2-3 in his last 5 bouts

On June 7, 2009 Mike Brown (24-8) was on top of the featherweight division world following his second title defense. He had defeated the former champion Urijah Faber for the second time at WEC 41 and looked unstoppable.

His next title defense was at WEC 44 against Jose Aldo (18-1), who would end Brown’s title run with a second round TKO to move from rising start to super star. The fight was a solid bout between two top fighters and no one could question that Brown was still at the stop of the division.

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Picture of the Day: UFC 128 Poster

Pre-sale info after the Jump

Tickets go on sale this week for UFC 128 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 2011. Headlined by the long-awaited light heavyweight championship fight between Maurico ”Shogun” Rua (19-4) and the challenger, Rashad Evans (15-1). The poster was also introduced and besides the main event it also features the bantamweight bout between Urjiah Faber and Eddie Wineland.

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