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during the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 2: A New Era at Mississippi Coast Coliseum on August 25, 2018 in Biloxi, Mississippi.

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The Fights

Do We Really Need Bare Knuckle Boxing?

Giri Nathan

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Elder Wisdom

Farewell To A Man’s Prose

Israel Daramola

Melvin Van Peebles speaking at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in 2008.

Defector At The Movies

Film Lost Melvin Van Peebles Just When It Needed Him Most

Barry Petchesky

ASPEN - FEBRUARY 28: Norm MacDonald performs during the US Comedy Arts Festival at the historic Wheeler Opera House February 28, 2003 in Aspen, Colorado. (Photo by Michael Brands/Getty Images)

Things We Actually Like

Norm Macdonald Surprised Us One Last Time


<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Brock_toon" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ian Williams</a> is a writer and PhD student studying relationships between craft and mass production at UNC-Chapel Hill. He also writes about labor, games, and pro wrestling.</p>


Ian Williams

Daffney in a match also featuring Miss Elizabeth somehow.

Pro Wrestling

Daffney Revealed The Heart Of Wrestling’s Unquiet Storm

Dave McKenna

MUNICH, GERMANY - JUNE 4: Drummer Charlie Watts Perform at the opening night of the European leg of The Rolling Stones Forty Licks Tour at the Olimpiahalle Spiridon on June 4, 2003 in Munich, Germany. (Photo by Getty Images)

Music

Charlie Watts Knew It’s Not The Drummer, It’s The Song

A photo of Zalokar oout out by the National Parks Service as they sought information about him.

The Great Outdoors

Champion Marathoner Fred Zalokar Found Dead In Yosemite

Greg Noll, The Surfer Who Became A Myth, Is Dead At 84

Chris Thompson

Science

Is Lightning A Fraud? Sadly, Yes [Update]

This photo taken on May 22, 2021 shows rescuers assisting people who were competing in a 100-kilometre cross-country mountain race when extreme weather hit the area, leaving at least 20 dead, near the city of Baiyin in China's northwestern Gansu province. - China OUT (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Running

Extreme Weather At Ultramarathon In China Kills 21 Runners

This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

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