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Yahoo
04-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dana White's Reaction To Fighter Who Said Hitler Was A 'Good Guy' May Surprise You
UFC boss Dana White called featherweight Bryce Mitchell 'an absolute moron' for complimenting Adolf Hitler but defended the decision not to punish the 30-year-old fighter. (Watch the video below.) 'Even though I don't like what he said and even though what he said makes me sick, free speech is real. We have to protect free speech,' White said Monday on 'Piers Morgan Uncensored.' Mitchell, who has a 17-3 professional record, lauded Hitler recently after he said he did 'research.' The result was hate and ignorance of the highest order. 'I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy based on my own research, not my public education indoctrination,' Mitchell said on the first episode of his 'ArkanSanity Podcast.' 'I do really think before Hitler got on meth, he was a guy to go fishing with. ... He fought for his country. He wanted to purify it by kicking the greedy Jews out that were destroying his country and turning them all into gays.' The episode, which was released on Jan. 24, has been removed from YouTube but remains on Rumble, the live-streaming video platform popular among right-wing extremists. Mitchell later apologized for being 'insensitive' and said he does not 'condone any of the evil things Hitler did.' But the fighter's comments were so extreme that White continued to be asked about them this week. Host Piers Morgan asked White if there were limits to free speech, and White said no. 'I think probably the most important free speech to protect is hate speech,' he said. 'When a government or a certain person can come out and determine 'this is hate speech,' it's a very slippery slope, and it's dangerous.' White prefaced his remarks with an odd shoutout to Elon Musk as the 'superhero of this election.' (Musk also earned scorn recently with a gesture that looked like a 'Sieg heil' salute at a Donald Trump inauguration event.) The UFC leader may have also been speaking from the bottom line as well. He said last week there was an upside for spectators that Mitchell, who's ranked 13th in his division, can keep fighting. 'That's the beautiful thing about this business, for all of you who hate Bryce Mitchell, you get to see him hopefully get his ass whooped on global television,' White said in a statement to ESPN. Dana White Makes Eyebrow-Raising Remark About Campaigning After Aiding Trump Win Trump Just Bungled Elon Musk's Name. Again. Scott Jennings Is Dared by WaPo Reporter To Imitate Elon Musk's Salute On CNN
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Chael Sonnen: Despite UFC inaction, Bryce Mitchell will face punishment for pro-Hitler comments
Bryce Mitchell isn't exactly off the hook for his pro-Hitler comments, despite the UFC not taking direct action, says Chael Sonnen. Mitchell, a current UFC featherweight, made objectively disgusting remarks on the first episode of his "ArkanSanity Podcast," stating Adolf Hitler was "a good guy" while also denying the Holocaust as a real historical event. At the first given opportunity, UFC CEO Dana White addressed Mitchell's rant unprompted at the Power Slap 11 post-match press conference. White explained that he and the UFC's official stance was one of "beyond disgust," but the Las Vegas-based MMA promotion would take no action. Sonnen admitted he was not fully informed about the situation but felt comfortable enough to comment on the UFC's reaction to Mitchell's comments. "There's a few words that just don't work," Sonnen told MMA Junkie. "I had this talk with my children. There's a few words that don't work; one of them starts with the letter 'N.' Another one of them starts with the letter 'F,' and you can't do Nazi and Hitler. You just can't. You can't make those comparisons; you can't praise." Sonnen, a Fight Wing UFC Hall of Famer for his part in the UFC 117 title fight against Anderson Silva, recalled an incident in college when he insulted someone using the Nazi label, but was scolded by his professor. "I put somebody down in college," Sonnen explained. "I was insulting a bad person and I used the word Nazi. Somehow, I made a compairison, 'like the Nazis.' That professor kept me after class and he said, 'Do you know who they are?' I said, 'Yeah.' And he was against the guy that I was schooling. I was on the right side of this, and the professor agreed. "He said, 'You don't ever compare anybody to them. You don't ever try to tell me somebody's bad, and compare them to that, because nobody is that.' And it changed me. And if Bryce has never had that talk like I had, and he's getting it right now from the UFC, I will bet you, much like me, he will learn from it." Even though the UFC did hand down a punishment to Mitchell, Sonnen firmly believes there will still be repercussions for the 30-year-old featherweight. "Please understand, there's a checks and balances for these guys that run their mouth or say something bad or say something that's really offensive," Sonnen said. "There's no passes. ... There's other things you can do, there's checks and balances. Mark my words, he's having calls from whatever sponsors he's got, he doesn't have them anymore. In the best case scenario, they all got frozen – in a best case scenario. "Now, the audience is going to look at him different. Those things don't go away. To pretend that there's not a punishment, is not true. Do you need big brother to come in and hand him the ultimate ax? That's a different conversation. There's different levels to things. There's criminals out there, but some of them jaywalk, and some of them rob a bank. There's different levels, and there's checks and balances for all of them. So please, let's not pretend that Bryce has got away with something here. He most definitely did not." UFC's Bryce Mitchell hits new low with 'Hitler was a good guy' homophobic diatribe | Opinion This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Chael Sonnen: Despite UFC inaction, Bryce Mitchell will face punishment for pro-Hitler comments
USA Today
31-01-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Chael Sonnen: Despite UFC inaction, Bryce Mitchell will face punishment for pro-Hitler comments
Bryce Mitchell isn't exactly off the hook for his pro-Hitler comments, despite the UFC not taking direct action, says Chael Sonnen. Mitchell, a current UFC featherweight, made objectively disgusting remarks on the first episode of his 'ArkanSanity Podcast,' stating Adolf Hitler was 'a good guy' while also denying the Holocaust as a real historical event. At the first given opportunity, UFC CEO Dana White addressed Mitchell's rant unprompted at the Power Slap 11 post-match press conference. White explained that he and the UFC's official stance was one of 'beyond disgust,' but the Las Vegas-based MMA promotion would take no action. Sonnen admitted he was not fully informed about the situation but felt comfortable enough to comment on the UFC's reaction to Mitchell's comments. 'There's a few words that just don't work,' Sonnen told MMA Junkie. 'I had this talk with my children. There's a few words that don't work; one of them starts with the letter 'N.' Another one of them starts with the letter 'F,' and you can't do Nazi and Hitler. You just can't. You can't make those comparisons; you can't praise.' Sonnen, a Fight Wing UFC Hall of Famer for his part in the UFC 117 title fight against Anderson Silva, recalled an incident in college when he insulted someone using the Nazi label, but was scolded by his professor. 'I put somebody down in college,' Sonnen explained. 'I was insulting a bad person and I used the word Nazi. Somehow, I made a compairison, 'like the Nazis.' That professor kept me after class and he said, 'Do you know who they are?' I said, 'Yeah.' And he was against the guy that I was schooling. I was on the right side of this, and the professor agreed. 'He said, 'You don't ever compare anybody to them. You don't ever try to tell me somebody's bad, and compare them to that, because nobody is that.' And it changed me. And if Bryce has never had that talk like I had, and he's getting it right now from the UFC, I will bet you, much like me, he will learn from it.' Even though the UFC did hand down a punishment to Mitchell, Sonnen firmly believes there will still be repercussions for the 30-year-old featherweight. 'Please understand, there's a checks and balances for these guys that run their mouth or say something bad or say something that's really offensive,' Sonnen said. 'There's no passes. … There's other things you can do, there's checks and balances. Mark my words, he's having calls from whatever sponsors he's got, he doesn't have them anymore. In the best case scenario, they all got frozen – in a best case scenario. 'Now, the audience is going to look at him different. Those things don't go away. To pretend that there's not a punishment, is not true. Do you need big brother to come in and hand him the ultimate ax? That's a different conversation. There's different levels to things. There's criminals out there, but some of them jaywalk, and some of them rob a bank. There's different levels, and there's checks and balances for all of them. So please, let's not pretend that Bryce has got away with something here. He most definitely did not.'
The Guardian
31-01-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
UFC president Dana White criticizes fighter Bryce Mitchell's praise of Hitler
UFC president and CEO Dana White criticized Bryce Mitchell for making anti-Semitic and homophobic comments on a podcast during which the featherweight also praised Adolf Hitler and denied the Holocaust. But, citing freedom of expression, White said the organization would not take any disciplinary actions against Mitchell. 'I've heard a lot of dumb and ignorant shit said over the years, but this is probably the worst,' White said in a statement released by the UFC. 'First of all, when you talk about Hitler, he was responsible for the death of 6 million Jews and it was his intent to completely eliminate the Jewish people.' White said the UFC let Mitchell know what he said was unacceptable. 'Hitler is one of the most disgusting and evil human beings to ever walk the Earth, and anyone that even tries to take an opposing position is a moron,' White said. 'That's the problem with the internet and social media. You provide a platform to a lot of dumb and ignorant people.' Mitchell, who competes in the featherweight division of MMA's largest promotion, made the comments on the first episode of his ArkanSanity Podcast, where he suggested that Hitler was a 'good guy' who 'fought for his country'. 'Here's what I say about [Elon Musk] heiling Hitler, heiling the Nazis: I really don't think that he was, because I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy based upon my own research, not my public education indoctrination,' Mitchell said. He added: 'I really do think before Hitler got on meth, he was a guy I'd go fishing with. He fought for his country. He wanted to purify it by kicking the greedy Jews out, that were destroying his country and turning them all into gays. They were gaying out the kids. They were queering out the women. They were queering out the dudes. Do you know where the first tranny surgery ever was? Happened to be in Germany before Hitler took over.' Despite views White described as 'dumb and ignorant', the longtime UFC head defended Mitchell's right to express them. 'It's free speech,' White said. 'That's the beautiful thing about this business, for all of you who hate Bryce Mitchell, you get to see him hopefully get his ass whooped on global television.'
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
MMA fighter praises Hitler, calls him a ‘good guy' in podcast
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Arkansas native and UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell praised Adolf Hitler and denied the Holocaust happened in the first episode of his new podcast. In his 'ArkanSanity Podcast' with Roli Delgado, the two started talking about Hitler during a conversation about Elon Musk making a gesture that was similar to the Nazi salute. After discussing the salute and Musk's social media presence, Mitchell praised Hitler. He called Hitler a 'good guy' based on his own 'research.' 'I really do think before Hitler got on meth, he was a guy I'd go fishing with,' Mitchell said to Delgado. Mitchell continued giving antisemitic and homophobic statements and said Hitler was trying to 'purify' Germany by removing Jewish people from the country. Despite praising Hitler, Mitchell claimed that he didn't hate Jewish people and wasn't a Nazi. UFC CEO Dana White condemned Mitchell's comments calling them 'beyond disgusting' at a news conference in Saudi Arabia at a Power Slap event. 'I've heard a lot of dumb and ignorant s*** said over the years, but this is probably the worst,' White said in a statement to ESPN. 'First of all, when you talk about Hitler, he was responsible for the death of 6 million Jews and it was his intent to completely eliminate Jewish people. And that's a guy you would want to go fishing with?' White was asked about whether Mitchell would face punishment for his comments and said he would face no disciplinary action. 'It's free speech,' White said. 'That's the beautiful thing about this business, for all of you who hate Bryce Mitchell, you get to see him hopefully get his a** whooped on global television.' Bryce Mitchell is currently ranked 13th in UFC featherweight rankings and is 17-3 in his career, according to his UFC profile. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
