All eyes are on New Jersey tonight as UFC action has arrived in the city with a highly-anticipated card. With the fight between lightweight champion Islam Makhachev and contender Dustin Poirier highlighting the event, many renowned celebrities also made their way to UFC 302 to witness the thrilling encounter live. Amid the arrival of those stars, fans were left confused when they saw NFL Legend Aaron Rodgers sitting alongside who they believed was LeBron James until a brutal realization struck them.

In a video making the viral rounds, Aaron Rodgers can be spotted sitting next to a person with a full beard and a Lakers cap looking very similar to Bron from far away. From the looks of it, both allegedly ignored former POTUS Donald Trump when he arrived. With half his face hidden because of the cap and a build identical to the four-time Champion, it was very easy to confuse Rodgers’ friend as King James. However, in a much higher-quality video, it was pretty evident that the person was only a look-alike. Who was he then?

The man who had everyone fooled was none other than NFL Legend Mercedes Lewis aka Big Dog. And Rodgers cleared every fan’s confusion when in another video he said, “Hey it’s Aaron Rodgers from the New York Jets. I’m here with my man, Big Dog.” Standing 3 inches shorter than LeBron but along the same weight class, even in the closeup video, he had an uncanny resemblance with the Laker.

The NBA faithful fail to recognize their King!

With several fan videos from the event going viral, LeBron fanatics flooded the comments section with their mistaken predictions about his appearance at the UFC event. After watching the video of Trump walking past Aaron Rodgers and Mercedes and the two looking away, one fan questioned, “Wasn’t he sitting with LeBron James?”

Meanwhile, another supposed LeBron critic even called him a “douche” thinking that he was the one who ignored Trump.

And without getting any confirmation, one netizen instantly claimed that Rodgers was sitting with LeBron at the event. “Aaron Rodgers with LeBron James…” he wrote. In another video made from a distance, Aaron and Mercedes can be seen reacting to Joe Biden chants in the arena as Trump sits right in front of the NFL duo. But once again, the video had a fan fooled, as he thought it was Bron who was smiling and shaking his head at the chants.

Then, after watching the video posted by ESPN, fans realized that the person in question was not LeBron and finally admitted their mistake. and one of them said, “So that’s not LeBron?”

Over the years, LeBron and Rodgers have shared which they constantly display publicly on social media. Even when Rodgers suffered a brutal season-ending injury in his debut for the Jets last year, the NBA legend was among the many heartbroken fans tweeting, “Damn Man! That Hurt.” So, it is understandable why the fans would think that the two were at the event together.4

Were you fooled as well? Let us know in the comments below.

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