(This story appears in today’s edition of USA TODAY .) It’s a funny how, for a sport that prides itself on the wide array of skills it requires, MMA still prizes a good old-fashioned slugfest above all else. There’s a certain simplistic beauty to it, something brutal yet instantly relatable. As former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell once said when discussing a possible fight with then-PRIDE FC champion Wanderlei Silva, “I think we’ll go out there and punch each other in the face until one of us falls down. It’s not that hard.” That’s about what fight fans are expecting this Saturday night, when heavy-hitters Robbie Lawler (23-10 MMA, 8-4 UFC) and Matt Brown (19-11 MMA, 12-5 UFC) square off at UFC on Fox 12 in San Jose (Fox, 8 p.m
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Robbie Lawler vs. Matt Brown, and a history of MMA slugfests – MMA Junkie