“The evening ended as it had begun: with a display of patriotic pageantry on a scale rarely seen in American sports.”
Absurd. More a display of ugly jingoism seen all too often in American sport, though calling UFC a “sport” is mighty generous.
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Trump’s White House UFC fights marred by ugly Michelle Obama smear
Justin Gaethje stunned Ilia Topuria in the main event as a night of military pageantry, political theater and cage fighting veered into conspiracy-laden culture-war rhetoric