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Knuckle Up
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September 14, 2015
Eugene on the Mayweather-Berto bomb
The MAYWEATHER-BERTO handjob and how it will singlehandedly destroy the formerly sweet now sour science of boxing and while hardcore MMA fans might be laughing heartily right about now they shouldn't.
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September 7, 2015
The low lows & high highs of UFC 191
UFC 191, the low lows and the high highs and why as a baseline measure the new generation is here to stay, only possibly sullied by the exit of the old and, yup, something ELSE you have to deal with.
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August 31, 2015
It ain't easy being Dana White
Eugene S. Robinson goes deep on Bellator, The Melvin Chronicles, the Ronda's Rondele and how it ain't easy being bald.
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August 24, 2015
Gloating, GICTAs & the IT paradox
Eugene on ANDERSON SILVA'S erectile issues, CHRIS WEIDMAN'S forgotten man status, JONNY BONEY JONEY and UFC Fight Night HOLLOWAY-OLIVEIRA.
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August 10, 2015
Don't be waiting on Jon Jones + Eugene explained
Eugene discusses UFC Fight Night OSP v. TEIXEIRA, the non-prodigal JON JONES, the finer points of GICTs v. GICTAs, why the show is this way. And, oh yeah: Nazis.
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July 27, 2015
The FU genius of the MMA haves
A Graduate School of Business breakdown of what might constitute a terrible boss and the corrosive influence of unremitting negativity, UFC on FOX 16.
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July 20, 2015
Knuckle Up: Sucker's aftermath, Fedor, Mir, Conor+
The continued rippling aftermath of having called bullshit on UFC 189, the MIR-DUFFEE to do, the LEITES-BISPING to-don't, the FEDOR hit, the COUTURE miss
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July 13, 2015
UFC 189: How does it feel to be a sucker?
The greatness that was UFC 189 vis a vis seeing City Hall win again, why even MENDES was happy to see McGREGOR win and the Man-ness of MR. LAWLER + Reebok like having sex with ugly people.
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July 6, 2015
The Rousey-Cyborg + Conor-Aldo Conspiraversies
An MMA Dead Week meditation on the nature of CONSPIRACY, the dark confusions of CONSENSUS REALITY and the biggest of big: the furtherance of hidden BUSINESS INTERESTS
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June 29, 2015
On Romero & snatching defeat from the jaws of...
A sleepless Eugene provides his take on YOEL ROMERO snatching defeat from the jaws of victory via a now "misunderstood" post-fight comment about a Gay Jesus, religion, its paths to violence & MACHIDA's date with the existential inevitable.
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June 22, 2015
Knuckle Up: Bellator 138, the magnitude of suck
Literary gunslinger Eugene S. Robinson lends his "one"-of-a-"kind" "perspective" to the miserable and misbegotten misadventure that was KIMBO SLICE v. KEN SHAMROCK.
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June 15, 2015
Knuckle Up #361: The Cain crash
Literary gunslinger Eugene S. Robinson lends his "one"-of-a-"kind" "perspective" to UFC 188 and comes up gleeful.
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June 8, 2015
UFC Fight Night of the Long Knives
Eugene ignores Big BEN ROTHWELL's uber-strange attempt at up leveling his profile while simultaneously diminishing his market value and singing his praises for doing so + Poirier in the LAUZONE & insights on the Hendo win.
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June 1, 2015
Condit-Alves, just what the Dr. ordered
Eugene on why the 21st century's celebration of losers makes us winners, Don't Cares becoming Cares [Oliviera, Bektic, Rony] and helping erase the stink of the last few weeks.
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May 25, 2015
The joy of being wrong for the right reasons
The dismasting of his pick to win, the late quasi-great ANTHONY 'RUMBLE' JOHNSON at the hands of America's darling DANIEL CORMIER and why this means JONES will remain a trivia question until 2016 at the earliest, why Johnson will never return ever
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May 18, 2015
The 'win juice' deployed in Manila
Eugene S. Robinson lends his "one"-of-a-"kind" "perspective" to the UFC-Fight Day-Night Manila, its showcasing of guys what you ain't heard of and may never again who may or may not be juiced to the gills on a wide variety of Win Medicines
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May 11, 2015
The baseball-ization of MMA, no sympathy for Jones
Eugene digs deep into the skid of sameness that marks a combat sport arena still reeling from a very, very, very bad Spring.
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May 4, 2015
The Boxing Emperor has no clothes
Eugene's take on the obscenity that was FLOYD v. MANNY, $350,000 seats of stupidity.
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April 20, 2015
HA HA HA Total Failure on UFC on Fox 15
An "evening" of execrable fight prognostication courtesy of the San Mateo County Emergency Room and a misstep to end all missteps.
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April 13, 2015
The drunk, beaten w/ a shovel take on Cro Cop
Eugene does the show drunk after being beaten up by a guy with a shovel and looks back at a UFC card stacked with tedium and cares moving to don't care.
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March 30, 2015
UFC's competition shined this weekend
Eugene S. Robinson lends his "one"-of-a-"kind" "perspective" to fights that we widely suspect you might have missed on the BELLATOR 135 and WSOF 19 cards, as well as a look ahead at UFC FIGHT NIGHT: MENDES v. LAMAS.
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March 23, 2015
The Meh of Maia/LaFlare transformed via magic
Eugene describes how an evening of expectedly dutiful miseries exploded into a stepping stone of fistic significance.
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March 16, 2015
Pettis fans: Eat your livers, I told you so!
The joyful glee that comes from watching PETTIS NATION eat their LIVERS out while he says as he has in no uncertain terms to anyone who'll listen: I TOLD YOU SO. This plus his chortling smug and self-satisfied take on UFC 185 in total.
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March 9, 2015
The final word on Ronda Rousey
Literary gunslinger Eugene S. Robinson lends his "one"-of-a-"kind" "perspective" to the seemingly never-ending RONDA ROUSEY misdirect and the reality of smoke-tistics and blood-from-a-rock-o-logy that frames how casino owners see the world.
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February 23, 2015
Eugene accepts a fan's challenge + UFC con carnage
Eugene S. Robinson lends his "one"-of-a-"kind" "perspective" to The Sport That Performance Enhancing Drugs Have Wrought and the only sensible way to go for a way forward into a brave new world of fighters needing to dig down deep to compete.