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A truly awesome video by Ghenghis Con.

MMACanada.net has the pics, bloodyelbow.com is where I found out about them:

UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre, having grown weary of answering questions related to his immediate past, has turned his attention toward the next formidable challenge placed in his path -- Thiago Alves.

"Thiago Alves, no doubt, is the biggest challenge of my career," St. Pierre told Sherdog.com in an exclusive video interview. "He has done stuff nobody has done before. It's going to be a very, very tough fight."

Alves (16-3) has rattled off seven consecutive wins, the last three against top 10 welterweights Karo Parisyan, Matt Hughes and Josh Koscheck. Ten of the 25-year-old Brazilian destroyer's 16 career victories have come by knockout or technical knockout, as he has emerged as perhaps the most-feared striker in the welterweight division.

GSP exclusive interviewSt. Pierre (18-2) throttled lightweight titleholder B.J. Penn in their hyped UFC 94 rematch in January and will carry a five-fight winning streak into his next bout. Allegations of "greasing" continue to dog the 27-year-old Canadian in wake of his rout of Penn, which saw him pass the Hawaiian's feared guard with surprising ease en route to a fourth-round TKO. Penn declined to come out of his corner for the fifth round.

"He said I was a quitter," St. Pierre said. "I'm not the one who didn't come back for the fifth round."

Check out Greg Savage's full interview with St. Pierre and watch the welterweight king discuss the Vaseline controversy involving cornermen Phil Nurse and Greg Jackson, along with what direction he thinks Penn should head after the most lopsided loss of his career.

By Guilherme Cruz, tatame.com

After UFC 94's main event, in which Georges St. Pierre dominated BJ Penn, the Brazilian Thiago "Pitbull" Alves entered the octagon to challenge the Canadian for the welterweight title. While the date of the confrontation isn't defined, the Brazilian is waiting - and training - hungry for the fight of his dreams, and promises a great show.

"It'll be a great fight. I'm very excited, I can't wait... It's going to be great," said the fighter, in conversation with the reporter Cristiane Ripari, after the press conference. "I saw what he did with BJ Penn and I'll have to beat him a lot, do my game", said Thiago, who wasn't expecting such domination over the Hawaiian. "I expected and didn't expected, understood? (laughs). I knew he would win, but not this way. He's much bigger than the BJ, a better athlete, and the sport today, in that level, you have to be the best athlete", said "Pitbull", defining his strategy to the fight against GSP in a sentence: "I'll go there to knock him out".

Diego Sanchez vs. Thiago Alves

Anderson Silva vs. Patrick Cote

Even though this event doesn't happen until October, the UFC held a press conference anyway. Good thing it - word is Alves is at 200 and needs to cut to 30. Sounds like fun to me.