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It seems like he manipulated the crowd after they’d arrived, but I couldn’t find anything that suggests they advertised it as straight pride or anything other than a cage match to specifically draw in homophobes and bigots as you suggested.
It has been awhile, but I remember that he promoted it ahead of time with his “super straight carl” (or whatever the name was) persona.