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Don Abato is back with The MMA Ten.
In this editon: The Huntington Beach "Blab Boy", Junie
Love, UFC 92, MMA gifts and can Santa defend the RNC?
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The MMA Ten: Reckon-ize
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Quote of the Day: Deadspin Shines Again
Bloody Elbow —
... fangs.
-- Rick Chandler, Associate Editor of Deadspin.com. Emphasis mine. In fairness to Chandler, he treated the Levens' story with the grace and maturity it requires, although I have no idea what the atmospherics of mouthpieces has to do with Levens' personal struggles with depression and mental illness.
For those who are regular readers of BE, Rick Chandler should be a familiar figure (here and here and here).
HT: Fight Opinion
More on that Levens death
Fightlinker.com » Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap —
... I’m not a big fan of writing stuff about people who die … tried it once or twice and it left a bad taste in my mouth. So if you want to keep up with the Justin Levens situation, then I’d point you towards FightOpinion where Zach and his commenters are doing a good job of breaking the situation (and the media’s reaction) down. ...
Blog compares murder-suicide to wearing mouthpiece with fangs
Cage Writer —
... paragraph of its story about the fighter's alleged murder-suicide. Thank god the blogosphere doesn't cling to antiquated views of fighting. Oh wait, we just checked Deadspin. FightOpinion.com did a nice job of pointing out this line where somehow a possible murder is explained by the fact that one fighter, Andrei "The Pit Bull" Arlvoski wears a mouthpiece with fangs: ...
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