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BEFORE FAKE NEWS

ack in the 1970s and ’80s — that probably sounds like the Dark Ages to some segments of the demographic — there was plenty of fake news floating around the martial arts world. The crucial differences between fake news then and fake news now is we didn’t have a catchy label for it and

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