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					<description><![CDATA[A personal story about my friend Lodune Sincaid, the wild beginnings of The Ultimate Fighter, and the television experiment that helped change MMA forever. I still remember when Lodune Sincaid first told me he was going to be on a new television show called The Ultimate Fighter. I had a hard time wrapping my head [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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