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Bryce Mitchell: UFC fighter’s feedback on Hitler ‘past disgusting’, says Dana White

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UFC president Dana White criticised fighter Bryce Mitchell for praising Adolf Hitler, amongst a slew of antisemitic, homophobic and transphobic feedback, however stated the organisation wouldn’t take disciplinary motion towards him.

Final Preventing Championship (UFC) fighter Mitchell stated Hitler was a “good man” and denied the Holocaust throughout the first episode of his podcast, ‘ArkanSanity’. Mitchell, 30, is ranked thirteenth within the UFC’s featherweight division.

“We reached out to Bryce instantly after we learn what he stated, and let him know precisely how we felt about it,” White stated at a information convention on Thursday.

“However what he stated was past disgusting and he wants an actual training on the details surrounding Hitler and World Warfare Two.”

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However, citing freedom of expression, White stated the UFC wouldn’t take disciplinary motion towards the American.

“Hitler is without doubt one of the most disgusting and evil human beings to ever stroll the Earth, and anybody that even tries to take an opposing place is a moron,” White stated.

UFC president Dana White spoke to Mitchell about his comments

UFC president Dana White spoke to Mitchell about his feedback (Getty Pictures)

“That is the issue with the web and social media. You present a platform to lots of dumb and ignorant individuals.”

The UFC journalist and fight sports activities broadcaster Ariel Helwani, who’s Jewish, stated the game had hit a “new low”.

“Each day MMA finds a approach to attain a brand new low,” Helwani stated in a publish on X. “A brand new manner of embarrassing itself and people who are followers of it.

He added in one other publish: “Nothing can be accomplished, and I do not even care if something is completed. Say what you need. It simply continues to baffle me at how unbelievably silly – to not point out bigoted – among the individuals within the sport or related to the game could be.”

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