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Opinion: Thugs and beasts before the law, UFC 229 was just business as usual for its rotten culture

I’ll tell you what animals in France being put on trial in 15th century France have to do with Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor in just a second, but first let me talk about animals in France being put on trial in 15th century France.

And yes, it’s true. Unlike a brawl breaking out between an Irish hothead recently charged with three counts of assault and a Dagestani athlete with connections to war criminals — this piece of world history is shocking. In 1494, a pig was arrested and put on trial in Clermont, France for strangling a child in its crib.