Fan favorite and the always-entertaining Clay Guida today joins MMAjunkie.com Radio to discuss his upcoming UFC on Versus 1 bout with Shannon Gugerty. The UFC lightweight looks to get back in the title picture with a win on the Colorado card.

UFC 113 fighter Johny Hendricks, who meets T.J. Grant in May, also joins today's show. The Las Vegas-based fighter joins as an in-studio guest host.

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Fan-favorite and The Ultimate Fighter season one finalist Stephan Bonnar will be stepping in for Frank Mir to bring an insider’s perspective to the WEC 47 color commentary.

Mir is currently deep in taining for an upcoming heavyweight interim championship showdown with Shane Carwin at UFC 111.

The news of the anchor change comes through WEC representatives in a recent report at MMAJunkie.com.

While Bonnar’s position with the UFC following three consecutive deats under the promotion seeming secure at this time with a potential rematch with Krzysztof Soszynski being rumored for the near future, the commentating side of things could be one possible avenue “The American Psycho” decides to pursue when his career punching and choking people has come to an end.

Bonnar has some previous experience in the field with UFC 59 currently on his current commentating resume.

WEC 47 is set to take place from the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio this Saturday evening, March 6, with Brian Bowles making the first defense of his bantamweight crown against Tucson, Arizona’s Dominick Cruz in the headlining match-up.

Despite his big fan following and the role he played in a vital 2005 fight with Forrest Griffin that brought mixed martial arts - and particularly the Ultimate Fighting Championship - into the mainstream, Stephan Bonnar would appear on thin ice.

As he enters tonight's UFC 110 preliminary-card fight with Krzysztof Soszynski, Bonnar is stuck in a two-fight losing skid and has suffered losses in four of his past six fights.

But sticking with an earlier promise, UFC president Dana White said Bonnar will always have a home in the UFC.

Does any MMA fan think that Tag Team MMA will be a trend that will catch on? Can anyone remember XArm or any other gimmick’s that actually made the bouts better? Us neither.

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Michael DiSanto, UFC - Any fan in search of a timeless standup war needs to make sure that he or she tunes into UFC 110 on Saturday night (taking place in Sydney, Australia on Sunday) because this co-feature bout has all the ingredients of a slugfest.

MMA fans are what Hunter S. Thompson described Dr. Gonzo as in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Too weird to live and too rare to die.

Unlike teams sports like football and basketball, the fans live—and—die with an individual, rather than an entire team. While the casual American Football fan might be a Peyton Manning fan, ask any Indianapolis Colts fans and they will say that they will support the team, not the player. MMA fans live—and—die on whether or not a fighter is on a three fight losing streak or a five fight winning streak. There are those bandwagon fans that only become a fan when a fighter is doing well and will then quickly jump off when the fighter suffers a sudden defeat.

A fans will is truly tested when the sport comes under scrutiny by the media in stories that clearly goes for the “Human Cockfighting” angle rather than seeing the sport from the perspective of sports that is a human chess match. You’ll be surprised to see what happens when the e—mail of said sports writer probably gets filled with e-mails with counter-argument’s tearing the writer’s story down to the ground. I remember a story on a local website around the time Anthony Pettis made his debut in the WEC, and his debut was drawing interest from the local media. The writer “supposedly” saw the event where there was no referee, no gloves, and the ref ignored a fighter submitting to some “weird” arm—lock. He then went into the whole “Boxing is better” and that “The sport should be banned” drivel that most writers use. Shortly after the article went up, fans immediately attack the writer on his points, exposing his article as nothing more than a cheap attempt to gain views, and he promptly put up an apology for what he wrote.

There is a downside to being an MMA fan though, and those are the fans that care more about what a promotion is doing rather than and in the eternal MMA pissing war that started once the UFC started to pick up steam. While each side has good points, the idea of people aligning themselves with a company and not fighters show’s what fans true intentions are. I can only compare it to back in the 1990’s when pro—wrestling fans in Philadelphia supported the name ECW by buying up all the t—shirts with the ECW logo showing a disregard for the wrestlers who worked for the promotion. The death of PRIDE did little to help this as most hardcore—PRIDE fans began to support companies like EliteXC and Affliction just to see them beat the UFC. This leads to the companies going head—to—head against an opponent they are ready to face. Then when the company dies, they latch onto another company and so on and so forth. While this group doesn’t represent MMA fans, it is a growing concern that’s led to the rallying cry of “SUPPORT FIGHTERS, NOT PROMOTIONS!” on MMA message boards.

The reality with MMA fans is that we’ve been through the rise of the sport in the early 90’s, a dramatic downfall in the late 90’s, and an epic reincarnation in the last decade. This has made the fan base become a tightly knit group of fans, essentially a fraternity of fans who are going to argue whether Fedor could beat Godzilla one moment then come together in unison when they’ve just seen a classic. It interesting to see if fans of baseball would stick with the sport if there was another lockout….I’m guessing not.

Fan favorite “Ruthless” Robbie Lawler put on another crowd pleasing show during “Strikeforce: Miami” in Sunrise, Florida.

At one point it looked like Lawler was in trouble as Melvin Manhoef, one of Strikeforce’s recent acquisitions unleashed a punishing series of brutal non stop leg kicks and body shots. The packed house watched in what was almost an eerie silence as it looked like Lawler might go down.

“What was hard for me was sitting there and watching my teammate partner/ brother get kicked like he did,” said Matt Hughes, Lawler’s training partner and former welterweight UFC champion. “Melvin threw some vicious kicks, so I mean it was a very hard fight to watch in the corner.”

Lawler managed to pull through despite his painful injuries while basically only having one good leg to use. In one fell swoop he landed a short overhand right knocking Manhoef down, and followed that with another powerful shot on the mat.

“Robby doesn’t get the credit he deserves,” said Hughes. “He is very smart. He knew what he was doing the whole time, he tried suckering him a couple of times beforehand acting like he was hurt and Melvin really wasn’t going for it so. Robby is good at playing possum he did it well and it paid off for him tonight.”

According to Hughes, it was all part of a well thought out game plan by Lawler, who despite his injuries remained calm.

“Melvin had a great game plan,” said the former UFC champion. “He just made the mistake of dropping his hands and Robby watched enough tape to know that is what he does typically when he is trying to finish a fight.”

Next up for “Ruthless”, a well deserved time out.