WASHINGTON, June 9 -- The White House lawn fight was always going to be something. Now, five days out, it has turned into something else entirely.

Ilia Topuria spent the better part of his fight-week Monday delivering two separate responses to Justin Gaethje after the interim UFC lightweight champion brought Topuria's recent divorce into the promotional circuit. The first was wordless - Topuria flipping a double-bird directly at Gaethje during the filming of UFC's Embedded series. The second was a social media statement that landed harder than most press conference threats: he would put Gaethje to sleep in front of the man's entire family, in front of his country, in front of everyone watching from the South Lawn of the United States Whi...