UFC president Dana White has condemned feedback made by fighter Bryce Mitchell about Adolf Hitler as “past disgusting”.
The featherweight fighter, 30, stated he thought the German dictator was a “good man” and repeatedly denied that the Holocaust occurred through the first episode of his podcast, ArkanSanity.
Addressing the feedback at a information convention on Thursday, White stated Mitchell “wants an actual schooling on the info surrounding Hitler and World Battle Two”.
He stated: “Hitler is likely one of the most disgusting and evil human beings to ever stroll the face of the Earth and anybody that even tries to take an opposition place is a moron.
“That is the issue with the web and social media. You present a platform to quite a lot of dumb and ignorant folks.”
White added that UFC instantly reached out to Mitchell and “let him know precisely how we felt about it”.
Regardless of the feedback, he is not going to face disciplinary motion, White stated, citing freedom of expression.
Mitchell has been preventing within the UFC, the biggest promotion of blended martial arts, since 2018 and gained his final struggle towards Brazilian Kron Gracie in December.
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Sports activities journalist Ariel Helwani, who is understood for reporting on blended martial arts, criticised his feedback on X, writing: “Each day MMA finds a technique to attain a brand new low. A brand new manner of embarrassing itself and those that are followers of it.
“Nothing might be finished, and I do not even care if something is finished. Say what you need. It simply continues to baffle me at how unbelievably silly – to not point out bigoted – a few of the folks within the sport or related to the game might be.”
The UFC is a blended martial arts (MMA) promotion firm that hosts fights around the globe.
