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By MMAMemories.com:
 
First, the academia:
 
Karma (Sanskrit:  kárma (help·info), kárman- “act, action, performance”[1]; Pali: kamma) is the concept of “action” or “deed” in Indian religions understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called samsara) described in Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhist philosophies.
 
Law of Karma: All living creatures are responsible for their karma — their actions and the effects of their actions — and for their release from samsara. The concept can be traced back to the early Upanishads.

Now, the academia as reality:
 
A couple of weeks ago a guy named Frank Juarez, better known to mixed martial arts fans as “Frank Shamrock,” leveled some very serious and heretofore unsubstantiated accusations toward his stepbrother, the legendary Ken Shamrock concerning the use of steroids. Such talk naturally prompted knee-jerk reactions throughout the industry, as well as the MMA underground. And those kinds of insinuations can have the effect of doing unnecessary damage, in this particular instance to a man who has had a tremendous effect on building a fan base for MMA both in the United States and around the world.
 
Last Saturday Juarez was himself leveled, this time by the hand (and feet, as it were) of opponent Cung Le in a match for Juarez’s MMA “title” (as it was recognized by one organization anyway) in a performance that may have been entertaining, but lacked any substance from a technical standpoint. Juarez not only lost his ersatz belt but also wound up in the hospital with a possible broken arm, though a buttoned lip may have been more appropriate. 
 
Karma?
 
We debated in these offices as to how to cover Juarez, in light of the attempted defamation of his half-sibling, who has ascended to a place of true relevance to which Juarez may aspire, but will never attain.
 
Would we force-feed our opinion to the reader? We didn’t have to.
 
In the final analysis, the force of karma - and Juarez’s poor performance, which manifest itself in him planted firmly on his ass - took care of things all by themselves.
 
As Juarez was lying prone, we’re almost certain there was a voice, presumably from the heavens, that on some level drowned out the shills who serve as Showtime’s broadcast team; a voice that bellowed out:
 
“YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW”
 
Indeed, a powerful phrase, because everything that happens to a person is a result of one’s own actions. And when one trashes those who have held out a hand to help him, one will invariably go OUT with the trash.
 
Here we may have seen an instance where some things were better left unsaid, not for the purpose of protecting one party or another, but because it represented the wrong thing to say or do.
 
In this case, a guy who thought he was promoting a potential fight ended up blowing it.
 
It sure is a bitch, isn’t it?