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Training out of the Philadelphia Fight Factory—with an impressive record of 16-2—the prizefighter is a long way from his scrappy, street-fighting days in the hood: He no longer spends his Friday nights pummeling his way through impromptu melees, with nothing but the will to win. These days he prepares for fights diligently and professionally, and spends his weekends taking on highly skilled opponents for ESPN Bellator’s new lightweight tournament.
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Beirut—the musically globetrotting brainchild of New Mexico native Zach Condon—comes to town behind new double EP March of the Zapotec/Holland, which stacks music spawned from a recording session in Mexico atop bedroom electro-pop that Condon made in his pre-Beirut days under the moniker Realpeople. We rang up Condon for Review the Reviews, wherein we read excerpts from album reviews and get the reaction of the reviewed.
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