Somewhere in lower Manhattan near the Church & Chambers Street subway entrance, a homeless man is still looking for seventy-five cents so he can buy a MetroCard and get home to Canarsie. It’s the pitch he gave me on my way out of the Subway when I arrived to the UFC open workouts at 10:30 am this morning, and the same story he was trying to reiterate to me when I left at 4:30 pm. Not sure how many people fell for his hustle, or how much longer it’s going to take him to get home at this rate, but Nate Diaz should definitely get some one-on-one time with this dude to learn how to arrive fashionably late to a press opportunity. There must be an encyclopedia’s worth of sweet excuses in a professional NYC sidewalk hustler’s repertoire. It’s a bummer all Nate had to offer us after showing up 90 minutes late was, 'Traffic -- it sucked.'

In any case, open workouts gave us plenty of photo-ops of your favorite UFC on FOX participants in this brief gallery below, and since all of you love watching MMA journalists getting beaten up by MMA fighters, there’s a sweet video of Mike Straka getting a kick to the liver from Jim Miller.

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+15 # Gary LaPlante 2012-05-02 16:38

I wish that was Badr Hari and instead of a liver kick I wish it was a lekobuster.

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+20 # synthsis 2012-05-02 16:39

doesn't make him anymore less douchy on InsideMMA.

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+4 # Guest 2012-05-02 16:41

word.

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+9 # Tom Hanks 2012-05-03 00:52

InsideMMA?

you mean MMA Uncensored Live.

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0 # synthsis 2012-05-03 06:42

Quoting Tom Hanks:

InsideMMA?

you mean MMA Uncensored Live.

FML! yes, that's what I meant. that's how little I care about Straka and his nonsense I couldn't even get his show right.

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+23 # Guest 2012-05-02 16:51

He's trying to prove something, just not sure what that something is

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+19 # Jonesy 2012-05-02 17:00

Mike Straka reminds me of this dude who used to hang out at the bar on free pool Tuesday and hit on middle aged divorces while wearing an Affliction shirt...I hated that guy

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+20 # Guest 2012-05-02 19:57

that was me, sorry, them women usually have money.

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-7 # Guest 2012-05-03 04:04

I am that guy.

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+18 # Fatty_Sam86 2012-05-02 18:40

That lil girl vs Ubereem was more impressive.

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+7 # Vlad 2012-05-03 00:36

Liver kick....to the dick.

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+9 # Guest 2012-05-03 01:30

be a fucking man and next time ask pat barry ro kick you.

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+5 # Sambro 2012-05-03 05:48

Miller should have went for the head kick.

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+5 # Guest 2012-05-03 06:45

Wish it was Overeem instead. Straka needs a testosterone infused liver kick.

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+3 # boloblack 2012-05-03 07:50

You still have that leg Bauzen?

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+3 # Bauzen 2012-05-03 16:50

Bustamante told him to give it back.

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+5 # Guest 2012-05-03 09:12

If Jersey Shore was around 25 years ago you can bet your bottom dollar Mike Straka would be on there.

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