UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden features some of the top mixed martial artists in the world. But the biggest star in the building Saturday night figures to be President Trump, who is expected to be in attendance.

So much talk follows a Jon Jones fight that it’s almost possible to forget he will actually step into the Octagon against Stipe Miocic in the early hours of Sunday morning at New York’s iconic Madison Square Garden (1am, TNT Sports 1 and Discovery +).

Michael Chandler is a glass-half-full kind of guy. But even an optimist like this UFC lightweight contender won’t dance around how he’s fared competing in the heart of Manhattan over the