Take some cheap beer, add a crowd of cage-fighting enthusiasts, mix in staged homesexual encounters and slurs involving the fighters and the crowd and see what the recipe stirs up.

Four States Fair officials found it to be a distasteful and disingenuous form of entertainment that prompted them to shut down a June 5 show and question whether to do business again with a promoter they believed they could trust.

Local police, originally hired for crowd control, pulled out because the production company clearly intended to incite the crowd with sexual representation and viol...