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A Revolutionary Way to Hold a Tournament

THE WINNER will be decided by submission or incapacitation. Weight classes? If you wish. You want gloves? OK. Padded surface? Some kind of boundaries or ropes or netting? Fine. Here’s the only stipulation: The round — there will be only one — lasts a single minute.

Preposterous, you say. First, how exciting would it be to watch? It would be like reducing the length of the Kentucky Derby to 50 feet, like condensing the World Series not to just one game but to a single inning. Where would we find the

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