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fiveouncesofpain.com - 7/1/2009
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It appears as though current WEC lightweight champion Jamie Varner may be forced to the sidelines indefinitely.
According to a recent report on Vindy.com, WEC founder and general manager Reed Harris said that Varner may never fight again due to the broken foot and hand sustained in his previous ...
mmajunkie.com - 6/30/2009
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mmajunkie.com —
As executives hinted earlier this year, World
Extreme Cagefighting will, in fact, make its Ohio debut...
this year. WEC General Manager Reed Harris today told MMAjunkie.com that WEC 43 is set for Wednesday, Sept. 2, at the 6,000-seat Covelli Centre ...
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Youngstown, Ohio, hosts WEC 43 on Sept. 2, Jamie Varner ...
sports.yahoo.com - 6/24/2009
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When WEC lightweight champ Jamie Varner won controversially
over Donald Cerrone due to an illegal knee, Varner...
walked away from the fight with both his belt and a broken hand. That was on January 25. Now, five months later, the hand is still broken. ...
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Varner still not ready to fight, interim LW WEC belt ...
watchkalibrun.com - 7/1/2009
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watchkalibrun.com —
At one point yesterday Jamie Varner's fighting career
was permanently over and he was to be stripped...
of his WEC lightweight title in disgrace. A few hours later Varner's career was not over and he was still the WEC lightweight champion. How did such a wild oscillation begin, why online of ...
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What the Jamie Varner story tells about online media
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Rumors: The MMA Online Media Giveth and the Online MMA Media Taketh Away
Bloody Elbow —
... like wildfire as MMA blogs and news websites cited it as a legitimate source and why shouldn't they, newspapers and their websites are suppose to disseminate accurate information so blaming the readers for taking the information at face value is a disingenuous argument. Also the Vindy article contained numerous quotes from the WEC General Manager several of which seemed to imply that Varner's fighting career was permanently over.
Within a few short hours many, if not all, MMA websites, blogs and forums were citing Vindy.com's report. Again the ...
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