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The world of sport continues to be shaken by the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week.
Kirk was shot dead as he debated at the University of Utah Valley and died of his injuries shortly after.
Many important sports personalities reacted to the news and, in a recent appearance on the Podcast of Logan Paul, the president of the UFC, Dana White, shared his thoughts.
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The president of the UFC, Dana White, speaks during a press conference before the UFC 264 at the T-Mobile Arena de Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 8, 2021 while Charlie Kirk, CEO of Turning Point USA, speaks the first day of the National Republican Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024. (Getty Images)
“I just woke up and my phone exploded. I was blown away,” said White.
As amazed as White was, he said that his children also took the evil.
“I was actually surprised by the impact of my children. My children looked at him on social networks. My daughter, she is 19 years old, she is at university, and she has been destroyed from this thing in the past two days. You should feel horrible for her family. It’s crazy,” said White.
Charlie Kirk poses at the Cambridge Union on May 19, 2025 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. (Images Nordin Catic / Getty for Cambridge Union)
The new sneakers of Jonathan Isaac suddenly reflect the message of Charlie Kirk after the assassination
“The fact that this happened during what it was known, which was only a peaceful debate and conversation, which was a pillar of American virtue,” added Paul. “This country has been built on people who have a conversation and speak to people, maybe you don’t always agree and, hope to reach a resolution-or even if it is not, saying that we have respectfully. But it is most of the time how progress is made.”
“When you can’t talk, shooting and going to violence is so pathetic,” said Paul. “It’s so weak, and I think it’s totally against everything that is America.”
White replied: “This is what is happening with people who are not smart enough to debate.”
Paul also said that he had “really respected” Kirk for “his ability to enter a room and be the person he said he was”.
Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, speaks at the Turning Point Action conference on July 15, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP photo / Lynne Sladky, file)
Tyler Robinson was accused of aggravated murder, of two accusation of justice and the liberation of crime of a firearm causing serious bodily injuries, two charges of falsification of witnesses and the commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child.
