Pre Happy Hour Links

No one likes that last hour of work on Friday. It’s easily the longest hour in the week as we all collectively count down the minutes until we can go to our local watering hole for a couple pints of beer.

Thankfully SB Nation MMA has the perfect remedy for this “dead zone” hour -- a link dump. Check out the following articles from around the web and that hour will fly by in no time at all.

* the HD version of Barack Obama owning Jacob Volkmann on The Tonight Show- Middle Easy

* Sonnen Suspension An Important Step Towards Mainstream Acceptance- Heavy

* Grappling with Issues - 1/7/11- Five Ounces of Pain

* James Toney Calls Rampage Jackson A ‘Joke,‘ A ‘Fraud’ And A ‘Clown’- MMA Conver* Strikeforce World Grand Prix - Heavyweight Tournament To Feature Half of Top 10, Including Fedor, Overeem, Werdum, Barnett, and Silva - FIGHT!

* Rich Franklin Talks UFC 126- MMA Scraps

* Gary Goodridge Finally Gets (Mostly) Paid for K-1 Dynamite!! 2009- CagePotato

* Tyron Woodley: Nobody Wants to See Me Laying on Tarec Saffiedine- MMA Fighting

* Jon Jones on Thiago Silva: I’d love to give him a slap in the face- Low Kick

* UFC 125 Post Fight Press Conference: Silva and Kim- Versus

*Thiago Alves Using Liposuction to Remain in UFC Welterweight Division? - 5th Round

*Bloody Elbow Staff Retrospective: Event of the Decade - Bloody Elbow

*Strikeforce Challengers 13 preview and quick picks for ‘Woodley vs Saffiedine’ - MMA Mania