Josh Thomson is a big fucking baby

Goddamn Josh, you gays are sensitive.

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If you can sue people for spreading the fact that you're gay, Blind Date better look out.

Maybe Shamrock's mic was hijacked, like Denis Kang's MySpace page.

WOW If this sinks strikeforce will Josh be signed to a six figure UFC deal

Frankie was right. What a frooooooot.

In prison or on the streets a 'Punk' is a self professed faggot. Maybe he should change is nickname if he don't like it.

I think he just wants some $$$

What do you mean only the hardcore few saw the broadcast and heard what was said? They reported that it was being streamed by 500 bazillion homes right after the match!

I could have sworn that a good portion of the flamboyant japanese PRIDE fighters were gay. And I think Randy Coture may be overcompensating a bit with the whole "wife" thing, so he's at least bi.

1. Josh Thomson *is* a faggot
2. I'd fuck him (in prison or on the streets)

I believe theres no such thing as bad press.. If your going to be ousted as gay-- true or not-- I say he should come to the ring in a pair of fishnets and feather boa. It would make news, and in a business like MMA being a good fighter is about 75% of what it takes, the other 25% is being marketable.

Then after going out and destroying your oppenent he could say he's not gay, but even if he was he'd be more manly than Frank Shamrock. That would be more of a slap to Frank than paying a few grand for slander.

Fightlinker, The first openly gay website columnists in mixed martial arts....

so what if I keep coming back here...

I agree with what your saying, but, just a heads up, ( I am not a lawyer) slander = verbal, libel = written.
As a side note, keep up the good fuckin' work fightlinker. Your rude, crude, motherfuckin' nasty, throw in a little wittyness, maybe a tiny bit of intelligence, and that equals what I think will continue to be a growing fan base and readership.
Think about it, who wants to read all the same pussy shit that your competition is writing about. They are also starting to get there breaking news from you as well. Who the fuck needs them - they suck balls, like the pantywaist that wants to litigate 'cause his feelings are hurt. What about the broad that he left high and dry on the dating show. Why can't she sue him for having a camel toe? I'm out. Later.

On to a different subject. What kind of dumb ass main event is Rashad Evens vs Mike Bisping? I can't remember the last event I missed but you can bet I won't get that piece of crap! Who cares about either guy.

WTF are you talking about Rashad Evans vs Michael Bisping? That's gotta be a fucking joke right? That's not happening right? In the words of fightlinker: BOOOOOOOOORING! He's got an RBI of 333 and hits a... BOOOORING!

"The reason what Shamrock did is considered libel is because..."

You immediately know when someone should shut the fuck up about defamation laws... that point is when they call verbal defamation "libel." At that point, you should pretty much up the shut fuck.

Libel = written defamation
Slander = verbal defamation

Commenting on the validity of lawsuits as if you're some big expert because you have a blog where you insult people yet can't grasp the difference = poor.

/pet peeve

ooooh...nitpicking a common fucking transposition of words a la libel/slander...good point, you fuck knob. that really makes your point that your whole argument hinges on a mistake three quarters of the fucking population makes. good fucking jesus on a fucking pogo stick i HATE sanctimonious fucks who yammer on about that shit. how about "hey, you confused this shit" and a simple explanation. No, instead, you go for "I'M TEH SMARTETS AND UR TEH SHETS!" bullshit. nice fucking work, Xavier. Fucking shit...your argument seems to be that someone making a blog post who doesn't have a fucking degree in what you're gibbering about should shut up. How about, FUCK YOU, make your own blog? Just a suggestion. G'night

Garth, sucking the dick of the blog owner won't make him have tea parties with your plastic accessories, your dollies and your fucking whiny bitchy self.

I love that you used argumentum ad populum to defend his "mistake", but believe me, he and the rest of the world will be better off getting the difference between libel and slander correct. Especially if they're going to mock people for suing others while trying to educate his readership.

I'm sorry I insulted your crush, now go cry in the corner you big sloppy girl.

The slander is this terrible weapon which has bad consequences
In this case and will be(IMHO)
Sorry,I shall go away from seem - Are you from what country(more people of this site)

Last time i checked, two paragraphs about the most basic tenants of libel and slander != me pretending to be an expert. I read several articles on the subject, based my comments on those, and that's that. The articles I read re politicians were suing for libel so I got mixed up with terminology. I'll make sure to fire my editor and fact checker for this obvious mistake, plus I'm thinking of firing myself for pretending to be a lawyer or something.

Xavier: I'm all for snorting a shitload of coke, masturbating furiously, and fanboy freaking out on fightlinker. Just ask him. But.. you scare me, brother. I just don't know what else to say. You scare me like watching Chuck Liddell in the crowd at the UFC where he was high off robitussin and bobbing and weaving to the Tito and Vitor fight scared me. You're a crazy fuck.

I wish I was cool enough to use latin phrases, homophobia AND sexism in my rebuttals to disparaging words over the interwebs.

Vos vir, queerbait.

Xavier is right--it is alleged slander, not libel.
And Josh's case is going to be hard to prove, given the history between these two. Frank knows Thomson personally, and all he has to say is that he genuinely thought Thomson is gay (based on the Glamrock T-shirt or whatever other evidence Frank wants to claim). Plus, they are both public figures, so the legal standard for tortious slander is much higher. Josh is going to look like an ass litigating this.

I don't know, it's hard for Shamrock to claim that since his statement is that Thomson is "openly gay." Shamrock can't claim that private knowledge of Thomson via friendship would make Thomson is openly gay since openly = public acknowledgement by Thomson.

Even using the "best belief" defense won't help Frankie too much because again, he was making a statement which literally says that Thomson was public and "out" as a homosexual. And as Fightlinker correctly pointed out, he can't claim it was a joke because it wasn't delivered as such.

The fact that there's previous bad blood between Thomson and Shamrock REALLY doesn't help Shamrock either, since Thomson can prove what is usually the hardest part of defamation, maliciousness, quite easily.

All that garbage said, I truly doubt Thomson would win... well, anything in the way of damages... considering that being a homosexual doesn't itself carry much in the way of negative connotations in the eyes of your average court.

Can't claim it as a joke 'cause it wasn't delivered as such? Yeah, no one ever deadpans a joke. Oh wait, that's the fucking definition of deadpan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpan

To follow Stellar53's lead:
Fightlinker, the first openly gay website for pseudo-intellectual jackal commenters to prove they've watched Law & Order a couple times.

Fighters and english majors huh. Now I'm really impressed.

Frank glamrock is my bitch!

Off topic... Strikeforce's commentators make Rogan and Goldberg look like consumate professionals.

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