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UFC Enters The White House

What a cage match on the south lawn gets wrong about martial arts and men

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Deric Mendes
Jun 12, 2026
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The men of Paul Gale’s Chinese Martial Arts Association.

Middle age finds you quickly. You accept it or get weird. One day, you’re a kid wearing R2D2 pajamas; the next, you’re chasing a delivery robot blocks past the sandwich shop you ordered from because it glitched and skipped your office. Time will tell if the Force is strong with you. Your knees will…

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