I had never heard of Josh Hokit until the other week. But the little I quickly learned about the immigrant-bashing, trans-hating Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter was enough to guess, correctly, that Hokit was the man behind the UFC Freedom 250’s most despicable moment on Sunday.

“Michelle Obama is a man,” Hokit belted out. “Am I right, America?”

The slur, which came during a post-fight interview with Joe Rogan, was met with a mix of cheers and boo’s. Others, like Rogan, seemed taken aback, appearing to wonder: Even for a corruption-soaked night already teeming with vulgarity, did this Hokit guy go too far?

UFC president and CEO Dana White seems to think so. “I’m completely against saying nasty and false things about people’s families,” he has since told........

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