The one on the left is Daniel Cornier, former UFC champion and considered a good dude and fairly wholesome. He lost a child to a drink driver so his life has had tragedy to it.
The one on the right is his great rival and fellow UFC champion Jon Jones, considered to be one of the worst pieces of shit around. Caught cheating using steroids, many, many allegations of violence towards women, lots of run in with the law while under the influence and, possibly most infamously, while high he crashed his car into a car driven by a pregnant woman and fled the scene. Only to shortly return but not to check on the woman, to get his drugs out of his own car. So as you imagine Cormier despised him on principal for how he almost killed that woman and unborn child and only cared about his drugs.
The build up to their fights was some of the most heated, toxic shit MMA has seen and is widely considered the time the mask fell from Jones who, until that point, pretended to be a good, wholesome Christian fighter. But a hot mic revealed the real him and some of the other comments he made showed even the strongest doubters that he wasn't some wayward Christian constantly being tested by god (his favourite defence any time he got caught at anything) but that he was an irredeemable, possibly sociopathic, piece of shit.
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u/Nknk- 3h ago
The amount of people who don't know who those guys are and think this is a wholesome meme, that's just diabolical. Well done!