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KNUCKLE UP #282: The Killing Lure of the Continual Spotlight + What It Means to RR, JBJ, WME, UFC, McG + the USA!

Literary gunslinger Eugene S. Robinson lends his "one"-of-a-"kind" "perspective" to the interregnum between the UFC, WME, Obama, Trump, last week and next week and everything you need to know to understand just what's about to happen in 2017 vis a vis MMA and the players, stayers, losers and the lost. Call it a rosetta stone translation of the totally unforgiving fame game and how it explains just about everything out of everyone's mouth from here on out. That and the SMARTEST MOVE GOLDBERG COULD EVER MAKE + SHOULD...RIGHT NOW!

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IN Round #282, KNUCKLE UP nominee and star maker EUGENE S. ROBINSON [with the "S" standing for "Spraypaint"], takes a long, hard look at BROCK LESNAR, RONDA ROUSEY and JONNY BONEY JONEY as a starting point for figuring out the lasting allure of fame and why it makes good people make bad decisions, bad people to make worse decisions and hungry people, totally sensible ones.

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

1] 7:01: MERYL STREEP: MMA IS PRETTY FRIGGIN' DIVERSE. JUST FYI.

2] 8:52: STILL HATE FALLON.

3] 30:34: AND MITCH MCCONNELL.

4] 41:00: FORGET TO MENTION THE ILLUMINATI GUY IN THE HOT TUB

5] 41:30: A WHOLE SHOW ABOUT GUNS

6] 41:35: I FIGHT HOMELESS GUY

7] 41: 37: SAUSAGES.

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."

EUGENE does a GENE KELLY thing and talks about RACCOONS. No fucking lie.

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