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This Saturday night the Playboy Mansion will play host to its first mixed martial arts event, Strikeforce: Playboy Mansion. Entrance to this unique event, which will be streamed live on Yahoo! Sports, is at a premium as many in Hollywood are excited about the prospect of seeing some great MMA in addition to eye candy that will likely put most MMA ring girls to shame.

One of the most anticipated fighters in action this Saturday will be Gilbert Melendez, the Northern California curly-headed powerhouse who we haven’t seen fight since his December 2006 victory over Tatsuya Kawajiri. Melendez will take on Tetsuji Kato, whose last stint was in April against the Los Angeles-based Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Joe Camacho, who beat Kato by second-round TKO.

In an interesting late development, BodogFight announced on Monday in a press release that they would be the “Presenting Sponsor” of the event. The affiliation between two heretofore non-allied fight promotions has allowed the fight between American Top Team fighter Jorge Masvidal and Matt Lee to make its way on to the card.

As I mentioned on this week’s edition of MMAPredictions Radio, unlike most fight and prediction results on this website, the results of this card and MTL: Tsunami vs. Avalanche will be posted on Sunday morning instead of shortly after the fights take place.

Good luck with your predictions!

- Caleb

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