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		<title>Who is Buying Vinny Magalhaes&#8217; M-1 Challenge Title on eBay?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vinny Magalhaes, fed up with M-1&#8242;s antics after they held him up in contract limbo for half a year, has put his title belt up for sale on eBay. Magalhaes won the M-1 Challenge Light Heavyweight Championship (which means he&#8217;s the champion of&#8230;M-1 Challenge? Like just that particular show? Is &#8230; <span class="continue-reading"><a href="http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/2012/05/14/who-is-buying-vinny-magalhaes-m-1-challenge-title-on-ebay/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vinny Magalhaes, fed up with M-1&#8242;s antics after they held him up in contract limbo for half a year, <strong><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=140753282701#ht_500wt_926" target="_blank">has put his title belt up for sale on eBay</a></strong>.</p>
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<p>Magalhaes won the M-1 Challenge Light Heavyweight Championship (<em>which means he&#8217;s the champion of&#8230;M-1 Challenge? Like just that particular show? Is that like a TV Title? Is he Arn Anderson?</em>) back in October 2011, and to show his appreciation, he&#8217;s saying &#8220;screw those guys&#8221; and getting more money out of the belt itself than he ever would have out of pseudo-oligarch Evgeni Kogan and his business associates that I&#8217;m sure aren&#8217;t shady Russian mobsters.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/vinny.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1354" title="vinny" src="http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/mma/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/vinny.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="497" /></a></p>
<p>Amazingly, bidding is all the way up to $100,000.</p>
<p><em>ONE. HUNDRED. THOUSAND. DOLLARS. </em>FOR THE GODDAMN <em>M-1 CHALLENGE BELT.</em></p>
<p>I could see paying a few thousand for it on a lark if you had more money than you knew what to do with, but who on Earth would pay that kind money for this belt?</p>
<p>I have a few theories:</p>
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<li>Joe Rogan, after getting really fucking high after recording a podcast.</li>
<li>Evgeni Kogan, trying to save face.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">A Russian mobster</span> One of Evgeni&#8217;s former business associates, who will hold the belt for ransom.</li>
<li>Some damn kid who thinks fake bids are real funny until their father gets a bill in the mail for $100,000 and every bit of that is coming out of your allowance, young man!</li>
<li> Vladimir Putin, who will wear the belt during the next installment of those creepy call-in shows where he tells people he is the snake Kaa from <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Jungle Book</span> and that he will hypnotize and swallow them whole.<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/21/vladimir-putin-have-a-care-editorial" target="_blank"> I&#8217;m not making that last part up</a>.</li>
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