Caros Fodor and his little brother Ben Fodor fought last Saturday night, with Caros winning a decision. On the outside, the fight was met with plenty of squirms. The idea of half-siblings literally trying to do each other harm in a cage crossed a threshold that a lot of people couldn’t understand. The Fodor’s mom, Susan, didn’t attend the show. She was one of those.
On the inside, it was more complicated.
If the fight was meant to resolve some deeper sibling conflict that a broader public wouldn’t fully grasp, it didn’t. Ben Fodor — known more famously by his crime fighting alter ego, "Phoenix Jones" — was visibly shaken before the fight, getting emotional in an interview with the World Series of Fighting’s Joey Varner.