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The Lurid Legend of Panama’s Wife-Swapping Streetfighters

When I heard about the Darwinian slap-boxing brawls where the winner gets to take home the loser’s wife, I simply had to find out if this was real.

Sal Perkins, as told to Josh Schollmeyer
Dec 27, 2016
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