7 Takeaways From UFC 244

Edward Carbajal
4 min readNov 3, 2019

My fourth editorial over at MMANews.com covered the UFC’s fourth event at Madison Square Garden. There was a lot to take away from all the fights that happened, but the biggest one seems to be that Donald Trump came to an MMA event. There are a lot of strong opinions about Trump and his long relationship with Dana White and the UFC’s beginnings.

However, when it comes to how far MMA has come, one thing White seemed to be in awe of was that before 2016, MMA was banned in the state of New York. He said as much in the post-fight press conference and a lot fo the fighters seemed to think it…

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Edward Carbajal

Interests in Martial Arts, Literature, Civil War History, Horror. Contributor to; Sherdog, MyMMAnews.com, One37 PM & TheBlogboardJungle.com