[I've said this before on Twitter years ago, but I erased it, so I have to say it again]

Colby Covington was a good college wrestler. Not much you can do with that career wise.🤷🏿‍♂️

He decided to pursue a career in the UFC.

His MMA fighting style was based on wrestling: take you down, punch you.

If you lose too many fights in the UFC, you won't get your contract renewed. You have to win to stay.

Colby Covington was winning. He had 7 wins and only 1 loss.

This is how Colby Covington used to talk to promote his fights.

And yes, he beat DHK after this, to improve to 8 wins and 1 loss.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2FCSd98MCk

His next fight was against Demian Maia, a dangerous 5th degree Black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. And the fight would be in Brazil, Demian's home country.

Colby's manager alleged that the UFC told him that even if Colby beat Demian, his contract would not be renewed. Because he was boring.

A wrestler can't just become a kickboxer or boxer overnight. He couldn't change his fighting style to be more interesting.

So he created a character. A persona, like a wrestler. He leaned into being super offensive MAGA guy.

He said super offensive things about Brazilians that I won't repeat.

So the UFC did re-sign him, and he became very popular with UFC fans thanks to his out of the cage MAGA antics.

Would he have gone super MAGA if his livelihood weren't threatened? Was this mask on or mask off? Which Colby is the character, and which one is real?

Who is at fault? Colby? UFC? Fans?

Is there a difference between:

"I say terrible things because it's the easiest way I know to stay employed. But I don't enjoy it."

And

"I say terrible things because it's the easiest way I know to stay employed. And I do enjoy it."

If you wanted to incentivize a reduction in the number of offensive and harmful things that UFC fighters say, where is the right place to drive that incentive?

The fighters?

The leagues?

The fans?

Is there a difference between an ICE agent that does enjoy detaining innocent people, vs one that doesn't enjoy it but does it anyway, because it's an easy way to get paid?

Is the ICE agent evil?

Or is ICE evil?

Or are ICE's "fans," the people that want to see negative net migration, evil?

What's the best leverage point if you want to incentivize reducing the number of innocent people detained by ICE?

Is it the individual ICE agents?

Or ICE?

Or ICE's fans?

There is some true percent of the US population that really are super offensively MAGA.

At times when MAGA is out of favor, some MAGA people mask, and pretend not to be MAGA.

At other times when MAGA is popular, some people that are not MAGA, pretend to be MAGA.
🙂🙃

Is one better for society? Why?

Conor McGregor says many offensive things. Most US folk, even those that don't follow MMA, know who Conor is. Conor loses a lot. He has only won 1 fight since 2016.🤷🏿‍♂️

Khabib Nurmagomedov avoids saying offensive things. Most people don't know who he is. He retired undefeated, having never lost in MMA.

Does that say something about Conor?

Or about UFC fans?

Or about Americans?

What are we worshipping?