Leave it to MMA fans to introduce Dewey Cooper to a new and entirely unpleasant experience in combat sports. Cooper, a 30-year combat sports veteran in kickboxing and MMA, had barely stepped away from the octagon after Francis Ngannou ’s failed bid for Stipe Miocic’s heavyweight title this past January when the messages started pouring in on his Instagram account. Some were of the usual variety employed by trolls. The death threats, he’d never seen before. Related Why Derrick Lewis won't let go of 'little grudge' with Francis Ngannou, even after UFC 226 It was incomprehensible to Cooper that fans could be so enraged by his work on one night – in this case Ngannou’s unsuccessful title shot at UFC 220 –that they would escalate to that level.
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