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The Logic of Combat Sports Titles

Essentially what I’m going to do here is to try and talk out a fundamental logic of challenge titles. Obviously, my main interest is in pro wrestling, but a lot of this is drawn from my fairly shallow look into how boxing and MMA titles are handled. I’m not sure if I can say there’s a “point” to this. I am, as always, trying to give more ammunition to a “sport-style” presentation for pro wrestling, and this is part of that. My hope is that this investigation can help provide a more realistic basis for wrestling stories than backstage attacks and burning down houses. But I’m not saying this is going to be a definite be-all end-all for how people have to look at titles. This is really more for my own purposes, but I think these types of investigations should be done for sports and I’m happy to join in.

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The Voter Is Dead

The consumer is dead. The citizen is dead. The voter is dead.

The sooner everybody comes to terms with this, the further along we will be.

I started to make this point in a series of tweets about J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter, and opposing transphobia. It came back to me when people started talking about boycotting Amazon (more? like a double boycott?) for being ready to kill USPS by splitting with it. Rather than restate the points, I’ll start just by quoting them: