The Guardian Article Rating'They do not bend the knee': US right courts UFC as NFL nods at social justice
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-18% Somewhat Liberal
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26% Moderately Conservative
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26% Negative
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| "Over the past few months, Owens has invited fighters like UFC lightweight Beneil Dariush to discuss the woes of communism while White was brought on to discuss the supposed importance of keeping politics out of sports." | Positive | 26% Conservative |
| "As previously reported by the Guardian, the organization effectively became the sports arm of the Maga regime and was an ideal platform for Trump to espouse his political agenda." | Positive | 28% Conservative |
| "Conservatives see Dana White's UFC as an ideal market to engage with a valuable demographic: young menLast week, Republican senator Ted Cruz posted a photo of himself alongside UFC legend Chuck Liddell." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Among the politicians who embraced the UFC over the past year is Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, who invited the organization to host UFC 261, a capacity-crowd event in Jacksonville, Florida, in April 2021." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "And though Trump lost the election, Republicans continued to flirt with the UFC in order to benefit from the organization's popularity." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "UFC president Dana White was among Trump's most boisterous supporters, having campaigned for the former president as far back as 2016." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "During the 2020 presidential election, Trump deployed several UFC fighters as campaign surrogates, placing them in front of crowds at rallies in swing-states such as Florida in order to secure a key demographic that forms the majority of mixed martial arts' fanbase: young men." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "In fact, Owens revealed that it was Covington who helped her become a fan of the UFC and that she plans to attend his upcoming fight against fellow Trump loyalist Jorge Masvidal at UFC 272 next month." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Over the past few years, UFC has become synonymous with rightwing politics due to its well-documented relationship with former president Donald Trump." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Chandler first made his political leanings clear when he questioned the results of the 2020 presidential election, tweeting at the time is Joe Biden really just taking the mic to talk about how 'patient' we have to be and how 'long' we are going to have to wait AKA we are going to contest these results...hard #wakeupsheep." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Other UFC fighters such as Colby Covington, whom the Guardian described as the athletic embodiment of Trump's politics, continues to strengthen his ties to prominent conservatives such as Trump Jr and Owens." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "While White's assertion is tenuous at best due to his own history with Trump, his comments endeared him to conservative audiences dissatisfied with the rise of social justice narratives in leagues such as the NFL and NBA." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "White has since defended Trump's policies, produced a documentary on him Combatant-in-Chief, and even used his relationship with the former president to defy government mandates at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
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63% : Over the past few months, Owens has invited fighters like UFC lightweight Beneil Dariush to discuss the woes of communism while White was brought on to discuss the supposed importance of keeping politics out of sports.*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.