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By KAITLYN OLSON Are there health-care benefits involved? You’re gonna have a broken face every day. If I was a champion, I’d be breaking a lot of faces and they would need health care. —Brian Boerner, 34, Queens Victoria Will/ New York Post

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Sure, I’d join one; it’s a good way to get aggression out. I try to get to the gym a couple of times a week, anyway. But people would start wondering where I was going after work if I came in with black eyes. —Cedric Silas, 35, Manhattan Victoria Will/ New York Post

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No, because I’m a peaceful guy. —Steve Miller, 36, Manhattan Victoria Will/ New York Post

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Yeah. I was in the Army. We used to grapple in the Army. —Marcus Allen, 24, New Jersey Victoria Will/ New York Post

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I don’t like being hit. I’m a pacifist. —Daniel Melamud, 35, Brooklyn Victoria Will/ New York Post

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If we got paid to fight, I would be in one. —Lance Slaughter, 24, Manhattan Victoria Will/ New York Post

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