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We've touched on Lee Murray's Tito-stomping, depot-robbing exploits in the past, but ESPN dug a little deeper on Tuesday's episode of E:60, presenting the full story of Murray's journey from MMA fighter to legendary thief. Part one is above, part two is below; fist bump to MMA Mania.

Related: SI's story on Murray going to film

(Former IFL fighter Claude Patrick: awake and relatively unscathed.)

It seems that the fighting didn't stop with the final bell at Ottawa's Freedom Fight this past weekend, as word of a taser-filled assault is spreading across the internet. The boys at Fightlinker (who attended the show, and whose whereabouts the time of the attack are currently unaccounted for) first mentioned the story yesterday.

Details about exactly who was tasered and beaten, by whom, and why, have all been sketchy. But Sherdog caught up with Canadian welterweight Claude Patrick, who was a victim of the assault. Unfortunately, because he was tasered into unconsciousness and then put into a medically-induced coma for twenty-four hours at the hospital, he doesn't really know what happened either:

“All I know is that I walked into my friend Pete Rodley’s room to say goodnight and thanks for the show, and next thing I woke up in the hospital,” Patrick told Sherdog.com Monday. “I’m assuming I got tased from behind. They said I got hit with a stun gun or a taser and that’s all she wrote.”

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“Dude, I was hoping you were calling me to tell me what happened,” Patrick joked. “They kept me in an induced coma for 24 hours and I just got up today. Actually, I thought today was Sunday.”

So, we published a list feature on Friday ("The 10 Most Despicable People in MMA"), and reactions were, let's just say, "mixed." A lot of you felt that Dana White shouldn't have been as high as #2, to which we can only reply "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke." Yes, yes, we're aware of all the great things he's done for our sport. But can you think of anybody else in the world of MMA who you've bitched about more over the last couple years? We're particularly bitter about his contempt for the websites and blogs that work harder than any other media outlet to publicize mixed martial arts. Where do you go for MMA coverage — the sports section of your local paper? ESPN2? No, you have to read eRags like CagePotato because the mainstream media doesn't care about this sport yet. You'd think Dana White would want to show some love to the journalists that actually understand and care about the UFC, but to him we're part of the Untouchable class. Trust us, if he provided any sort of press privileges to bloggers whatsoever, DW would be #2 on our list of Favorite People in MMA (after Krazy Horse, obvi).

Still, there was one aspect of the list that we definitely did regret the morning after. As commenter "homegrowncone" said:

Wow. I waited all the way till number 1 for Lee Murray only for him to not even get an honourable mention. This list looses all credibility because of that.

We have to admit, that was an oversight. And we'd just like to take this belated opportunity to say that Lee Murray is a despicable scumbag.