Fighters Luke Rockhold and Daniel Cormier took in a San Jose Earthquakes soccer game, palled around with the mascot a little and participated in the ceremonial First Goal, which is like the first pitch at a baseball game, but with your legs. As if guided by the hand of God himself, one of the kicks sent a soccer ball crashing into a big fuzzy blue guy’s genitals, and good lord, how would I not blog that?

UFC fighter Luke Rockhold didn’t score the ceremonial “First Goal” at the San Jose Earthquakes’ match vs. Vancouver Whitecaps FC, but he did leave his mark by drilling club mascot ‘Q’ in the groin. Fellow UFC fighter Daniel Cormier did find the net with his attempt.

More like Luke Cuckold, am I right?

Daniel Cormier’s next stop is his UFC debut against Frank Mir at UFC on Fox 7 on April 20. Rockhold’s next stop is his UFC debut against Vitor Belfort at May’s UFC on FX 8. Q’s next stop is the infirmary, assuming they have some kind of mascot version of that, and assuming the mascot infirmary is mature enough to repair a dude’s junk.

[h/t to Maggie at Cagewriter]

While the Fighters Only World MMA Awards took place 10 days ago in Las Vegas, the ceremony didn’t actually air until last night on Fox Sports so I didn’t want to play spoiler for anyone who was waiting to watch. And those of us who watched this incredible celebration of the best of the Mixed Martial Arts fighting world in 2012 were hardly shocked by the sport’s biggest names and personalities taking home the top honors.

Perhaps the best news of all was that Tito Ortiz, who is currently trying to help Cris Cyborg lose weight so she can fight Ronda Rousey, was on hand with his best babe, Miley Cyrus Jenna Jameson. The former porn queen had previously been Twitter flirting with Jon Jones and Ortiz confirmed that true love was dead when he Tweeted about being single. But don’t feel bad for Jones, because he was the night’s big (male) winner, as he took home the Charles “Mask” Lewis Fighter of the Year award.

More importantly, though, were the top female winners, as they are two women quite close to our hearts.

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First the bad news – while there’s no official word yet from Strikeforce, its parent company Zuffa LLC, or Showtime, it appears that Strikeforce’s incredibly-anticipated January event that promised to make up for the canceled September and November events will indeed be the organization’s last. TMZ, the world’s leading news source for mixed martial arts business dealings, reported yesterday that the future that many people predicted for Strikeforce after it was purchased by Zuffa is indeed coming true. Yes, this sucks.

Now the kind-of-good news – that January 12 event in Oklahoma City could be one of the most exceptional events in MMA history (much like those that we have EXCITING LIVE DISCUSSIONS for), as the rumored plan involves every Strikeforce champion defending his and her titles one last time. It’s not official yet, and according to Yahoo!, we shouldn’t get our hopes up, because UFC president Dana White hates Showtime and won’t let this happen. But I’m a careless optimist and I believe they’ll think of adorable fans like me and absolutely make it happen.

But now, the great news – With Leather favorite and extreme badass Ronda Rousey will indeed be heading to the UFC, which marks an incredible 180 for White.

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The gents at Ranger Up have put together a brief, expository PSA about voting, and while some of it can be disputed — morons get elected whether we vote or not, because the only people allowed to run are the ones who appeal to the most morons — some of it can’t. For example, yes, if I fail to vote in November, I could end up in a kumite deathmatch against the previously pretty-nice-seeming Tim Kennedy. The logic makes sense, what can I say?

Video is below.

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According to its website, Oxygen Magazine is a women’s fitness publication that helps females with exercise and nutrition tips so they can keep it tight, and we appreciate that. But obviously we appreciate women of all sizes, whether they’re fit and toned like Alessandra Ambrosio or a fatty fatty 2×4 can’t fit through the kitchen door like Kate Upton (jokes!). Oxygen also has a storied history of using toned fitness models in bikinis for its covers, so it’s safe to say that the publishers don’t have a problem with sex appeal.

OR DO THEY???

I bet you’d like to see the photo that Ronda Rousey claims was deemed too sexy, wouldn’t you?

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Strikeforce Women’s Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey is a volatile red-carpet personality who sorta looks like somebody bombarded actress Julia Stiles with gamma radiation and isn’t afraid to detail how many times she’d punch Kim Kardashian in the face. She also looks really great naked. UFC President Dana White looks like a guy who’d have a non-speaking role as “Dan’s poker buddy #3″ in the background of a ‘Roseanne’ episode. He won’t stop throwing up the “hang loose” gesture. It’s not surprising that when they stand together, the effects of both are magnified tenfold.

To illustrate this point, here are Ronda Rousey and Dana White walking the red carpet at an event to promote the new season of FX’s ‘Sons Of Anarchy’. The photographers (who communicate by going EHH EHHH EHH EHHH until somebody looks at them) are not shy about telling Dana to take 30 steps to the right to get his gross face out of their Ronda Rousey torso shot, and he obliges, because shit, he totally understands.

As Cage Potato points out, he’s got this red carpet accompaniment thing down-pat.

I’ll say one thing about DW: Whenever he does a photo-op with an attractive woman, he doesn’t act like a hover-handing sissy. He leans in and grabs a piece. Best perk of the job, if you ask me.

My advice: stay as far away from Charlie Hunnam as possible. Hunnam and Rousey would make those super babies from Baby Geniuses 2.