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A press conference last week in Los Angeles was supposed to promote the Tony Ferguson-Kevin Lee and Fabricio Werdum-Derrick Lewis fights at UFC 216. That it ended up doing more to build Ferguson-Werdum was bad enough. However, the capper was the controversy that has ensued since over Werdum’s repeated use of a Spanish homophobic slur.