Jake Davis

Medical staff attend to Conor McGregor after UFC 329. Photo via Getty Images. International Fight Week is consistently one of the biggest dates marked on the UFC calendar every year. It's a celebration of all that makes the sport great: fan experiences (notably absent after it was given to the White House card), Hall of Fame ceremonies, and a night of fights to cap it all off. This IFW, we were treated - and I use that word lightly - to a main event rematch for the ages.

UFC Freedom 250 at the White House. Photos via Getty Images. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. UFC Freedom 250 brought so many incredible highs and lows: Justin Gaethje turning back the clock to deliver a career-best performance, a venue that delivered a spectacle never before dreamt of, and enough corporate gargling to inspire a proletariat revolution. Just as I felt conflicted by the event's politics coming into fight week, I've come out of it with mixed feelings.

UFC lightweight champion Ilia Topuria, President Donald Trump, and interim UFC lightweight champion Justin Gaethje. Photo via Getty Images. Freedom, democracy, and wars for oil: the staples of the world’s most self-congratulatory country, the United States of America. To celebrate 250 years of independence from the British (something I actually can appreciate as an Irishman), the commander-in-chief of the greatest country on earth is going to do something spectacular.