Bloody Elbow · May 17, 2022
Opinion: Accepting bigotry hurts the UFC’s bottom line
Andrea Lee and her coach, Tony Kelley. Kelley made a bigoted statement at UFC Vegas 54On Saturday night at the UFC Apex facility in Las Vegas, NV, fans were given an opportunity to listen in on the corner audio for one of the night’s undercard bouts, between women flyweights Andrea Lee and Viviane Araujo. What they got wasn’t any quality technical insight into the process of fighting, but instead a bigoted rant from the mouth of Lee’s coach, Tony Kelley, directed at her Brazilian opponent.