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UFC 140 features fighters with points to prove

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz speaks

Photo credit: AP | Former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz speaks at the UFC 133 pre-fight press conference in Philadelphia. (Aug. 4, 2011)

Tito Ortiz enters UFC 140 in Toronto on Saturday as the mixed martial artist with the most to prove.

Wait, Lyoto Machida does.

OK, no, for real, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira will carry the largest burden during the walk from the locker room to the octagon in the middle of Air Canada Centre that night.

Despite what promoters and hype men say every time the UFC displays its letters on...

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