For Just A Few Thousand Dollars, Dana White Will Be Your Twitter Buddy

Barry Petchesky — Dana White Will Be Your Twitter Buddy, For Just A Few Thousand DollarsNow, a change of pace: an attention whore who isn't Ines Sainz. If you've got the cash, you can get the UFC President to follow you on Twitter. Only for three months, though. He's a busy man.

Currently on eBay is the "Dana White Twitter MEGA Package," which sounds like something Clinton Portis would be interested in. But read on, and you learn that the winner of the auction will be followed by @danawhite for no less than 90 days (more, if he feels like it).

I'm sure there's something in here about how Twitter has become too powerful, and how some people put far too much weight in their number and quality of followers. @barryap1 @barryap1 @barryap1

I'm just more taken with the bonuses for the auction winner. Not only will White follow you, but he'll reTweet one of your messages! And mention you in one of his Tweets! If you look at his feed, you'll notice he does this all the damn time, for free.

At press time, there have been 67 bids, and the highest bid is up to $6,900.

What's that? All the proceeds are going to charity? I'm an asshole, then.

On the bright side, you can get Antonio Cromartie for $51.


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Sergei Kharitonov was once considered one of the great up and coming fighters in the world.

Sergei Kharitonov was once considered one of the great up and coming fighters in the world. But for some reason, he never showed the consistency to be considered a true top three kind of heavyweight. Coming into their Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Silva match up, Andrei Arlovski had lost three straight. In other words, both combatants were looking at the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix Tournament as a way to right the wrongs.

But only one would walk out of the fight feeling good about the direction their career was going. Keep reading to find out whom.

Early on, Arlovski landed a low kick, right to the head, and then a light front kick to the body. Kharitonov landed a couple of jabs, before getting hit with a flurry. Upon a clinch, the two traded uppercuts with Arlovski getting the better of things. Nice low kick by Arlovski. He's looking like the faster fighter. A couple of decent kicks by the former UFC champion. Kharitonov landed a couple of jabs and then clinched with his adversary, but Arlovski got away easily. Nice jab by Arlvoski. Upon still another clinch, Kharitonov connected with a couple of solid uppercuts. Arlovski started sticking and moving again. He was looking good. But then, as it often seems to happen with him, Arlovski went from looking good to, well, keep reading.

Kharitonov landed a hard uppercut and then a right hand. Then came a flurry of punches from him, including a right hand that knocked Arlovski down. A few strikes on the canvas later and it was all over; Arlovski was simply out.

Sergei Kharitonov defeats Andrei Arlovski by KO at 2:49 of round one. A very impressive performance by the Russian.

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Fighting Tim Sylvia Again 'Is One of My Dreams':Andrei Arlovski

NEW YORK -- MMA Fighting caught up with Andrei Arlovski on Tuesday to talk about his upcoming fight against Sergei Kharitonov at Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Silva. "The Pitbull" talked about his mental state going into the fight, what he has done to change up his game and why he wants to fight Tim Sylvia one more time so badly.

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