Cain Velasquez was born in Salinas, California. The city's nickname is 'America's Salad Bowl' and it's filled with a slew of American Victorian homes. Cain Velasquez is American. Efrain Escudero is Mexican and he was recently kicked from the UFC, again. If you want to take the route of hyphens and technicalities, Cain Velasquez is Mexican-American. However, this would mean Brock Lesnar is Viking-American and the UFC hasn't mentioned that in the blitzkrieg of UFC promos we've been exposed to in the past. Michael Bisping is actually Cyprus-British and Alistair Overeem is British-Dutch -- with a little bit of horse meat mixed in there.

The truth is, MMA is growing strong in Mexico -- without the need of those silly lucha libre masks. The UFC has toyed with the concept of bringing an event to Mexico this year, but it appears that the sport already has a significant presence, even on the amateur and smoker circuit. Check out this match between Christian Aldama vs. Esteban Santillanez at Total Gym Peleas Amateur Chapo Challenger 1 that ended in a unbelievable KO this past weekend.

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+21 # Hairy Potter 2012-06-05 11:18

Holy shit!
But I would love to see them fighting with those masks, Dos Caras Jr. style.

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+9 # FozzyFiend 2012-06-05 13:04

Quoting Hairy Potter:

Holy shit!
But I would love to see them fighting with those masks, Dos Caras Jr. style.

AAAAAALBERTOOOO DEEEEEEEEEEEL RIIIIIIIIIIOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOO!!!

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+24 # Garrbanzzo 2012-06-05 11:20

Lucha Libre Masks are not silly.

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+3 # Garrbanzzo 2012-06-05 11:29

Additionally that tune at the end must have been composed by the same person responsible for the "SUPA FITE LEEG" theme song. This one goes something like this "Kick, Punch, Knockout Mexico fighter".

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-7 # Fatty_Sam86 2012-06-05 17:56

Yes they are.

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-3 # cacc 2012-06-05 20:42

i agree! fuck you zeus. all the dumb shit your into, and yet you chirp lucha libre masks? opinionated fuck. taints your articles.

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+14 # TDM 2012-06-05 11:21

That was crazy and I enjoyed it greatly.

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-11 # Guest 2012-06-05 11:40

Screw this whole click more to view video/ give us more ad clicks BS!

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+13 # satsamagraha 2012-06-05 12:07

Quoting Tank:

Screw this whole click more to view video/ give us more ad clicks BS!

fuck you man. fuck every lazy self-inflated piece of shit like you.

this is their fuckin job, they make income and pay rent because of this site. they put work in, day in and day out so that all people like you have to do to see a bunch of awesome footage is come here and click a few times.

if that's too much work for you i feel bad for any future children you have and the poor work ethic you will undoubtedly instil unto them

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+5 # Guest 2012-06-05 12:50

Quoting satsamagraha:

Quoting Tank:

Screw this whole click more to view video/ give us more ad clicks BS!

fuck you man. fuck every lazy self-inflated piece of shit like you.

this is their fuckin job, they make income and pay rent because of this site. they put work in, day in and day out so that all people like you have to do to see a bunch of awesome footage is come here and click a few times.

if that's too much work for you i feel bad for any future children you have and the poor work ethic you will undoubtably instil unto them

The dangers of TRT.

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+1 # Guest 2012-06-05 14:41

http://www.how-do-you-spell.com/undoubtedly

good rant

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+2 # Guest 2012-06-05 13:59

Quoting Tank:

Screw this whole click more to view video/ give us more ad clicks BS!

I am sorry you feel this way, I did the adds because the event wouldnt be possible if we didnt have sponsors to foot the bill for events like this. They didnt ask us to do it, we are just giving back to the folks who make unselfishly MMA available to us

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+2 # synthsis 2012-06-05 16:45

Quoting Tank:

Screw this whole click more to view video/ give us more ad clicks BS!

Zeus explained the click the link to see Vid thing in another post last week. Basically by doing this it significantly cuts down on the load time of the site in general for users since it will not have to cache each video that is embedded on each blog post. I'm sure this is all over your head so I'll just say WIZARDS!

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0 # Fatty_Sam86 2012-06-05 17:57

More ads + Google Chrome AdBlock = Less ads.

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+6 # Guest 2012-06-05 12:05

Ooooooooh KTFO!

That was gorgeous.

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+2 # 23Xtreme 2012-06-05 12:16

Actually Cain didn't even grow up here in Salinas... Something that is BS is that all of his fights up to the Noguiera fight, as he made his entrance and his name graphic appeared, it stated he was born in Salinas, but then in the Lesnar bout, they changed it to born in Yuma, AZ... they been showing that since then and it's BS.. BS I tell u!

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-5 # Guest 2012-06-05 12:35

mexicans have no ground game

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+11 # Guest 2012-06-05 14:00

Quoting yipey:

mexicans have no ground game

We are working on it....we will catch up, we have great US coaches!

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-6 # Garrbanzzo 2012-06-05 14:33

and get some mats or floor padding

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+6 # Guest 2012-06-05 17:10

Quoting Garbanzo:

and get some mats or floor padding

I can tell you do not train, since you do not know what a grey zebra mat looks like.

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+1 # Guest 2012-06-06 13:46

I beg to differ I am a Mexican and i can vouch with my experience in Greco, Judo, and BJJ. I am Mexican from Agua Prieta, SOnora

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+4 # Guest 2012-06-05 12:47

Great KO, but when i clicked the picture i was expecting the fighters to be wearing those wrestling outfits.

Bit dissapointed to be honest.

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0 # Sporadik 2012-06-05 14:02

Good, I told him before the match QCB+Kick

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+2 # Guest 2012-06-05 14:59

Mexicans do it better

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0 # Guest 2012-06-06 00:32

EL SOLAR

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