Dana White’s goons continue to test his “free speech” limits.
It hasn’t even been a full week since top-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight contender, Bryce Mitchell (No. 13), went viral for claiming that Adolf Hitler — who orchestrated the systematic murder of six million Jews — was a good guy.
Now, Sean Strickland — who rematches Middleweight champion, Dricus du Plessis, this weekend (Sat., Feb. 8, 2025) at UFC 312 — is getting in on all the awful, censor-free fun.
Indeed, Strickland — who White has already had to defend numerous times for saying really dumb stuff — was in a “joking” mood today at UFC 312 media day (watch it here). And, of course, White’s politically incorrect former 185-pound champion had to share his worthless two cents about the controversy.
He decided to up Mitchell’s awful ante, too.
“I was out filming with Embedded, and they were taking shots of me while riding my motorcycle,” said Strickland, who showed up at the promotional event with a new handlebar-like mustache. “I looked over, and he showed me the video. I had my little scummy mustache and was like, ‘I like this, this represents me.’
“I know I look like I should be going to a [KKK] meeting with Bryce Mitchell, but I don’t share the same values as Bryce Mitchell,” Strickland added, while demonstrating the difference between a Nazi salute and a Black Power salute.
“Tarzan” then, sadly, turned his attention to Mitchell’s apology.
“That’s the thing about Bryce Mitchell — he set the bar real low,” Strickland quipped. “Just got to not go full Third Reich and I’ll be okay. The thing that annoyed me about Bryce is that he f—king apologized. If you’re going to be a piece of s—t, dude, you’ve got to double down and be a piece of s—t.
“But, I want to say one thing in front of the world stage about my boy Bryce, because I want to defend Bryce,” Strickland added. “It’s not that kind of defense — what he said was a little f—ked up.”
Strickland, unfortunately, didn’t stop there. He then attempted to try and understand the warped thought process “Thug Nasty” has about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.
“I don’t think Bryce is a Nazi,” Strickland stated for reasons still unknown. “I think Bryce is f—king idiot from Arkansas who is not educated. I think Bryce is feeding into the propaganda. How many people actually agree with him? I don’t.
“The facts are these dirty Palestinians are going in and taking a bunch of little kids,” Strickland added. “If some Mexican took my woman, I’m grabbing my gun and going f—king full-send. Man, women, child … full-send. So, while I have this moment, Bryce, you are a f—king idiot. You should not have said that, but he is being radicalized, and people support him.
“We must look at how he went down this path and move forward,” Strickland concluded.
How about we don’t … ever. After all, this is just the fight business, and definitely not a $12 billion, publicly-traded company that literally prints money and has to answer to shareholders (that’s sarcasm).
Is this really America? Nah, it’s just bad business … still.
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