There are people questioning the veracity of certain events surrounding UFC 189 and the announcement that Conor McGregor and Urijah Faber will be the coaches for the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter 22. The first instance under scrutiny is whether or not the fight between Chad Mendes and Conor McGregor was fixed, and the second is whether the altercation between Conor McGregor and Urijah Faber—fortuitously captured by the cameras before the fight—was just a pre-determined scene in preparation for the announcement that these two would be coaching opposite one another. There will always be naysayers, critics and extremists, and we don’t want to get into the discussion too much, much less question the performance that each fighter delivered in one of the best fight nights of MMA’s recent years. If we’re going to talk about fixed fights and creating a scene, however, we can’t not talk about the great Jorge Kahwagi.
Over several years, Jorge Kahwagi has made a name for himself in his native Mexico as a controversial figure with a bizarre, double relationship between showbiz and Mexican politics, entrepreneurship, and as far as we’re more concerned, combat sports. But boxing is only one of his many hobbies. He is a double-major university graduate and is the Vice President of a national newspaper called La Crónica de Hoy, which is owned by his father. Kahwagi then made a sketchy way into politics, becoming a congressman for the Partido Verde Ecologista de México, which is a political party that has been involved in its own controversy, most notably a 2004 video scandal in which its party leader, Jorge Emilio González Martínez, received a $2 Million dollar bribe. He then requested a temporary leave of his political duties to become part of the Big Brother reality show, spending six weeks out of the office, although it was leaked that he still received his salary.
Pec Implants and Fixed Fights: Meet Mexico's Jorge Kahwagi | FIGHTLAND
