Some 120 years before Trump’s UFC event, a boxing match left Theodore Roosevelt partially blind

Trump will be a mere spectator at the UFC fights at his 80th birthday bash. Roosevelt took a more hands-on approach

Donald Trump is throwing himself a huge 80th birthday party on Sunday with a UFC fight on the White House South Lawn, but he'll be a mere spectator. About 120 years ago, another brash New Yorker turned president took a much more hands-on approach to sparring at the White House, when Theodore Roosevelt lost sight in his left eye during a 1905 boxing match there.

Roosevelt, the 26th American president, made the revelation in 1917, eight years after leaving the White House.