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KNUCKLE UP #341: Bellator, Hendo-Belfort+ A Best of Times/Worst of Times Breakdown

Literary gunslinger Eugene S. Robinson lends his "one"-of-a-"kind" "perspective" to a meditation on the fact that while the past has been written and the present echoes that, the future, in this instance the future of MMA is a thing of shadowy uncertainty. An uncertainty that in no way, shape or form minimized by anything you might have seen at BELFORT-HENDO. And this despite a worthwhile STRAUS victory at BELABOR 145. Why? Encapsulated beautifully in the Hail Mary-esque attempt to get any and all of us to take RONDA-HOLLY seriously. Yes. He goes THERE.

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In Round #341 KNUCKLE UP host and soon-to-be-IBJJF World Champion EUGENE S. ROBINSON [with the "S" standing for "Sham-Pain"], from the "worst motel in Los Angeles" delivers a show of whispered terror amidst the police screams of "freeze", the car alarms, and crystal meth smoking, crackhead denizens of his temporary place of residence. A show that fittingly enough, despite the large number of previous DON'T CARES, managed to see some move from DON'T CARE to CARE whilst simultaneously pulling back the curtain so we could see the strings being pulled on RONDA-HOLLY and indeed our entire 2016 MMA future of grimness. It was indeed the best of times and the worst of times. And Nazis.

And for the listener ON THE GO? The KNUCKLE UP TIME LINE.

1] 7:01: CARS BEING WORKED ON IN THE PARKING LOT: 3

2] 8:52: NUMBERS OF FISTFIGHTS AT THE JACK-IN-THE-BOX DRIVE-THRU: 1

3] 30:34: JESUS CHRIST. IT'S MOVING.

4] 41:00: THE SOAP GAVE ME A RASH + THERE'S SEMEN ON THE HEADBOARD. THAT ISN'T EVEN MINE.

5] 41:30: JEB BUSH: DEATH WATCH: DAY 45

6] 41:35: VITOR BELFORT: NO MENTION OF TRANSGENDERED PROSTITUTES

7] 41: 37: RONDA + HOLLY "LARRY" HOLMS: ALONE AGAIN. NATURALLY.

Eugene S. Robinson host of Knuckle Up and author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking[Harper Collins], A LONG SLOW SCREW [Robotic Boot] and a play called THE INIMITABLE SOUNDS OF LOVE; A THREESOME IN FOUR ACTS [Southern] also sings for a band called OXBOW and appeared in Bill Cosby's Leonard Part 6 (and yes, a Cosby story is in the works), a Miller Genuine Draft commercial, and had his own TV show in Germany called? "The Eugene Robinson Show."

And want to see EUGENE S. ROBINSON tell people to fuck off on the beach? Yes. Yes, you do.

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