Ben Fowlkes
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Sports writer. Talk on the Co-Main Event Podcast. Previously: The Athletic, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, Best American Short Stories. Novice hockey league MVP
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Hard to overstate how excited I was to see these digital trading cards that
@bucciblog
created for The Territories. Here’s his take on Doomsday, who appears in my story “Doomsday, Destroyer of Worlds” which you can read by ordering the damn book here:
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But … she’s holding the hair she cut off? While standing on the scale?
Tracy Cortez had to chop off some hair and shed some tears, but she hit 126 pounds for the
#UFCDenver
main event vs. Rose Namajunas. 💇♀️
🎥
@UFC
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Action Bronson back there trying to think of stuff that rhymes with Jedrzejczyk.
Love that the first person to hug Joanna is Action in a Ewing jersey while in Miami. Lej
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Yoel Romero fights this week and that’s all the excuse I need to post my all-time favorite MMA ankle pick.
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Simply cannot let people on here engage in any sort of Martin Short discourse without posting this clip.
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I’m just saying? If Anderson goes out there and front kicks him in the face it’ll be the most legendary DQ loss of all time. We will carry that man on our shoulders into the halls of Valhalla.
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Did, uh, the president just say (approvingly) that the US Marshals committed an extrajudicial killing of a suspect? Because that seems like a big deal that also corroborates NY Times reporting on the story:
Trump: We sent in the US Marshals, took 15 minutes and it was over... They knew who he was, they didn’t want to arrest him and 15 minutes that ended
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Is Jorge Masvidal one of your guys yet? Because maybe he should be.
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A thing of beauty.
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I’d pay money to watch Sean Strickland take a 10th grade American history test.
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Shoutout to Joe Rogan just totally undercutting the promo piece about Conor McGregor and his swaggering walk by pointing out that it was a Vince McMahon thing first. See what happens when your commentators don't fear being fired? They actually tell the truth.
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UFC bans flags. UFC reverses flag ban. UFC acts like that flag ban was your idea, you oversensitive baby.
Dana White confirms the UFC flag ban is OVER.
"If any flags hurt your feelings, too f*cking bad."
Full video:
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Gotta say, the whole ‘you only get one shot’ thing doesn’t quite work the same when it’s your fourth shot…
Israel Adesanya feels being "down three" fights against Alex Pereira has provided his "'8 Mile' moment" 🎤
#UFC287
"You get one shot. Do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime."
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When you’re the greatest you don’t have to run around shouting about how you’re the greatest. You just lay there holding on for dear life like a champion.
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Everything about this faceoff is incredible. It makes it look like Jack Swagger is fighting a dude they found loitering outside a shopping mall 20 minutes before the press conference.
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Some absolute Tekken shit.
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Still can’t believe Gaethje fell prey to that classic blunder: dropping Charles Oliveira in the first round.
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How dare you boo Zhang Weili. She’s done nothing but kick ass and be delightful.
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I advise against getting into a battle of appearance-based insults with Mike Perry. Not because there’s nothing you can say about his appearance but just because the second you do it you will realize that he’s tricked you into joining him in seventh grade detention.
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If we end up with Nate Diaz vs. Tony Ferguson after all it will be proof that the MMA gods exist and they will NOT be mocked.
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So if I understand this correctly, McGregor was trying to clown Bisping for … flying a commercial airline? As in, the mode of air transportation used by 99.9% of people. To remaining McGregor fans, how does it feel to know he thinks you’re a loser for not having your own plane?
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Nobody loves flipping out over entirely reasonable questions like this guy.
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Cannot stress enough that if you are a huge fan of any politician you are a dork.
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The weirdo right wing worship portion of the UFC PPV broadcast has begun. Just a totally normal thing to become a regular feature of this sporting event.
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So Conor McGregor is saying he had stress fractures in his leg before the fight ... and the UFC knew ... and the UFC's doctor knew. That seems like an explanation that'll only provoke more questions. For everybody.
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Oh, guy wearing the Paddy Pimblett wig and the Howler Head T-shirt, you are the customer the UFC has dreamed of all these years.
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UFC NFT owners rolling into Buffalo Wild Wings for the next pay-per-view.
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One thing I'll always remember is how when Miesha Tate lost the title to Amanda Nunes at UFC 200 she showed up to the press conference and answered questions and owned up to the loss all while holding an ice pack to her nose, which was still bleeding at the time.
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I’m a grown ass man with children and I agree with Chiesa here.
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Nope, Dana White is not the “UFC founder.” He just got his rich friends to buy someone else’s creation. I realize there’s a lot we could talk about here but I guess I gotta be the jerk who points out that even in a one-sentence tweet Fox News can’t get basic facts right.
PUNCHING BACK: UFC founder blasts "woke" culture — why his company refuses to follow other brands.
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I like how this headline makes it sound like Colby is hitting on Jon Jones.
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‘Hey Paddy, the boss would like to interview you about how his enemies are also your enemies. No, don’t worry, you don’t need to have any clue what you’re talking about. Anyway, is 2 pm good for you?’
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This man's talents are being wasted in MMA.
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UFC fighters who have to bleed and beg for a $50k bonus:
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"Let's at least sit down in a room ... and have a discussion."
Yeah, like collectively. With representatives from among the fighters chosen to negotiate on their behalf. With the weight of the entire UFC work force acting as leverage. If only there were a term for that...
28-fight UFC vet Tim Means urges the promotion to "keep that same energy" and make $300,000 bonuses a staple for ALL cards. 💸
#UFCVegas91
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When the golf pro and the executive chef square up in country club parking lot after a few too many cognacs in the lounge.
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Kinda drives home the weirdness of this sport when a guy can be like, ‘yeah our shared employer would never allow me to compete against this colleague of mine because they know I’d win’ and we just accept that he is right and this is just how it works.
"UFC will not let me fight him":
@DrewDober
can't see a world where he's put in an octagon with Paddy Pimblett.
#UFCVegas66
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Broken nose and fractured orbital. But no, I'm sure Stephen A. was right and Cerrone just gave up.
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No way. Hammerfists from the bottom. If you were playing the UFC video game and you got knocked out this way you’d throw down your controller and storm out of the room and YOU’D BE JUSTIFIED IN DOING SO.
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If you put this in a movie fight scene people would call it unrealistic. And yet...
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Wow didn’t know it was illegal to be fucking rad.
In other Vegas news, a limo driver was arrested for doing donuts on the Strip. 💀
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Sean Strickland would like to remind you that he is on some straight up Handmaid’s Tale shit in terms of his personal views, while also reminding you that he can’t handle being asked about those views without freaking out.
"You ask me some stupid sh*t like that? Go f*ck yourself."
Sean Strickland went off on a reporter who pressed him on past comments about the LGBTQ community at
#UFC297
media day.
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P4P most lovable UFC champ.
Man how can you not love Glover? He really walks around like a whole grandpa, coffee in hand, judging people's weights 😂😂😂
It's fight day!!
#UFC275
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Did … did Dom Cruz just say that cauliflower ear develops to help protect the brain?
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They’re just waiting for Tito to show up so they can have the most unhinged and utterly incomprehensible conversation this planet has ever seen.
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Bro what.
Having fled Brazil on the advice of his lawyers, soon to be ex-president Jair Bolsonaro is seeing in the new year at the Orlando home of former UFC fighter José Aldo.
One of Aldo's bedrooms is "minion" themed.
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Still blows my mind how there were so many people who built an entire personality around being willing to do ANYTHING for their family/country and then when they were asked to wear a mask and take basic public health precautions acted like it was an unthinkable assault on liberty
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Just think it's kinda weird that the UFC can tell fighters not to work with James Krause but supposedly can't tell them not to do ... this.
Khamzat Chimaev vs Kadyrov (président tchétchène) 🐺
Je suis mort la simulation, il sait un takedown et sa famille est 6 pieds sous terre 😭
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If the UFC actually makes a physical BMF belt for Diaz and Masvidal to fight for my prediction is that it will eventually become the most coveted title in all of sports there I said it.
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He's right, that is fascinating. You never hear people talk about how much they watch and/or like this thing yet it's the most viewed sport on the planet BY A LOT. I am fascinated by that.
Dana White on Power Slap: When you talk about numbers on views on this thing, take every sport on Earth, combine all their numbers together and multiply it by four, Power Slap beats it. Isn't that fascinating?
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Fighting Mike Perry while you wait for a 60-year-old version of Mike Tyson to get healthy is sort of like saying, hey I want to adopt a dog but first I think I’ll open my home to a rabid raccoon just so I can get used to the idea.
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My god. The ultimate shot/chaser video sequence right here.
Joe Rogan and Bo Nickal get fact-checked by Jamie (1/2)
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“I’m here for legacy” is an objectively hilarious thing to say before participating in some county fair-ass stuff like slap fighting.
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Such a weird question to even ask but seeing the answers makes me wonder: if you think nearly 200,000 dead in the span of about six months is acceptable then what the hell would unacceptable look like to you?
57 percent of Republicans think 176,000 coronavirus deaths (and counting) is acceptable. Holy shit.
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Glover’s version vs. Dana White’s version. The phrase “for some reason” doing a lot of work here.
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This is weird. Stop all this bullshit.
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The UFC is worried you might not have noticed that Trump is there.
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It is objectively hilarious that Colby Covington adopted this gimmick for the sake of career advancement after seeing similar stuff work for others, but the ramifications continue to follow him into his private life in a way that never happened to others who did it better.
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Predictable sequence of events: Trump shows up at a UFC event, some of us point out that it’s weird how the UFC broadcast treats him like a pro wrestler they’re trying to put over, then people who have based their whole personality on worshipping a politician lose their minds.
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It's crazy how Henry Cejudo is so many of the things we claim to love – champ in multiple divisions, Olympic gold medalist, finished fights, aggressive self-promoter – yet he says he's un-retiring to give Volk the challenge he asked for and it gets a mild shrug in response.
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Maybe it’s because Dustin isn’t constantly on social media beefing with EVERYONE up to and including his own fans? Just a thought.
Jamahal Hill is now asking why Dustin Poirier didn’t get the same treatment he did after losing to Islam Makhachev
“Dustin told Islam he would KO him was that trash talk too cuz nobody is mad about that!”
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Objectively hilarious to make your ‘sorry I lied about my steroid use’ video while sitting there looking like this.
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Wonder if Dana would say his own enormous wealth, which is greater than any UFC champion many times over, has diminished his ability to be good at his job.
Dana White: ‘Multi-millionaire’ Amanda Nunes is not the same ‘hungry savage’
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Really appreciate the extent to which Scott Coker clearly actually cares about the history of this sport even when it’s stuff he can’t really monetize.
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How dare he use Dustin’s own power up against him this way.
💡 Islam Makhachev perfectly times when Dustin Poirier goes to adjust his shorts and goes for a takedown.
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A woman in my high school graduating class died of coronavirus last week. She was 39 with no additional health risk factors. This idea that we'd just be sacrificing the old and infirm for the sake of our economy is: a) still monstrously callous, but also b) just wrong.
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One of the all-time best TUF moments, no question.
That time on TUF when GSP brought in his dadbod having drunk mate to school his team. A proper wolf in sheep’s clothing 🤣
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The MMA community will tolerate a little casual racism but they will never forgive you for missing weight.
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“I don’t have a scratch on me.”
Bro we can see the blood still on your face. You are actively bleeding right now.
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If MMA has taught me anything it’s not to fight a guy with that exact type of beard.
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Just so we're clear, that's Khabib Nurmagomedov's manager talking about unity and brotherhood alongside a picture of the UFC champ with the Chechen leader who's been condemned by the UN for egregious human rights abuses, including torture and murder of gays in Chechnya.
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Totally bro. Boxing has been so totally destroyed that the dream of damn near every UFC champ is to get popular enough to go do boxing. The sport that, again, has been destroyed.
UFC boss Dana White says fighter pay is right where it should be. 💸
Full story:
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Did ... did an unlikely hero just enter the chat?
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That settles it. Fury won solely because he had the good sense to be carried very slowly to the ring.
Full story coming to
@TheAthleticBOX
shortly: Deontay Wilder
@BronzeBomber
tells me he is definitely exercising his rematch clause for a summer trilogy against
@Tyson_Fury
, that his legs were weakened by his 45-pound costume he wore to the ring to honor Black History Month.
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I heard that right after Yoel gave this speech the cameraman turned and left, walked out to his car, pulled out his phone, and finally called the number on that flyer for guitar lessons that he’d been carrying around for eight months.
Only
@YoelRomeroMMA
could be this terrifying and inspirational at the same time 😨
#UFC248
(via
@Phil_Sports
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Rolling up in the stock market today like, ‘I would like one UFC, please.’
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Wow. Ol’ Rob.
Possibly one of the best post fight interactions in UFC history
Lawler: Are you good?
Diaz: All good man.
Lawler: Are you good… in life? That’s f***ing different. Let me know if I can help.
❤️
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Only in MMA can you commit three fouls in less than one full round and still come away blaming the OTHER guy.
Dean Barry: Mike Jackson ‘took the easy way out’ with disqualification victory
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Having toddlers isn't so different from having stoner roommates. You're sleeping, it's 3 am, a voice says, "Can we talk about skeletons?"
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Kinda feels like this interaction between UFC fighter Tony Ferguson and UFC exec Hunter Campbell is, I don't know, some type of metaphor...
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I bought Tyron Woodley's rap single. I'm probably gonna buy at least one bottle of Conor McGregor's whiskey. So I'm just saying, now's a good time for Donald Cerrone to release his own brand of beef jerky and catch me in a spending mood.
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Colby Covington: I won that fight. The judges screwed me because I’m a Trump supporter.
Literally everyone:
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If a billion-dollar a year company is really holding onto Stephen Thompson’s show money — which is a tiny fraction of what the UFC got paid just to bring this event to SLC before a single ticket or PPV was sold — well that’d be a whole new level of unconscionable greed.
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Hearing about Zabit Magomedsharipov abandoning a promising career as a pro fighter to become a doctor.
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I was at this one and afterwards I called Eddie Bravo to get his reaction for a story I was writing and the one thing I remember him saying is that he was so happy he went to Subway, bought two cookies, and brought them home to eat while reading his social media mentions.
13 years ago today, The Korean Zombie hit the first Twister in UFC history against Leonard Garcia!
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No. He. Did. Not.
Derrick Lewis spent that entire fight looking like he’d rather be at home. Then he wins by KO in the final 10 seconds.
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Gotta give them credit for one thing: When Republicans settle on a talking point — no matter how dumb it is — they all sit there with a straight face and hammer the hell out of it.
Asked what his plan is to keep schools safe, Kevin McCarthy says schools should be able to repurpose Covid funds to reduce doors.
#DoorControl
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What a casual.
Mark Zuckerberg has an idea for Weili Zhang’s first title defense
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If this is true it’s outrageous. Fighters showed up during a pandemic, made weight, took a risk that they might get sick and bring it back to their families. UFC lost zero dollars as a result of those fights not happening, and it’s not the fighters’ fault. Pay them their money.
Dana White: Fighters that didn’t fight tonight due to cancelations got paid ‘some money,’ but not show money.
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See, UFC wants us to be happy with Venom uniforms and minimal walkouts while meanwhile boxing is raiding the wardrobe for Hail, Caesar while also providing work to your town’s weirdest yoga instructor.
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Picturing him in the back after this, trying to light a cigarette but his hands are still shaking too much.
the way valentina had homie stressing after she cro copped jessica eye will never not be funny to me
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Tai Tuivasa post-fight: "I knew I could take care of Greg Hardy. He got what he deserved."
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Personally I think that if you make being a hateful bigot part of your public persona you should maybe not be so surprised and outraged when people ask you about that at a press conference. It’s a conversation YOU started, after all.
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Here’s the thing about Paddy Pimblett complaining about not being paid for interviews. Let’s say Dana paid him for that podcast appearance or whatever. (If he didn’t, well, then the irony is REALLY off the charts. But say he did.) Then say Paddy goes on there as a paid guest…
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Nothing but respect for my heavyweight champ.
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