Big brother is watching, well in this case, Bellator Fighting Championships is watching the Twitter accounts of their fighters.
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney says the promotion is monitoring what their fighters have to say on media venues like Twitter, going so far as to call fighters out on questionable posts.
The subject came up during Thursday’s podcast of “The MMA Show with Mauro Ranallo” following in the wake of the recent dismissal of Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal from Strikeforce over his Twitter comments.
Rebney spent 40-minutes talking to Ranallo discussing everything from tonight’s event to the future of the promotion on Spike TV.
“We had a fighter very recently post something on Twitter and it utilized some terminology that was wildly out of place and totally inappropriate and we called him on it immediately. His answer was he said he didn’t mean to offend anyone by it, he was trying to show by comparison, blah blah blah. We said we understand what you’re saying but it doesn’t matter, you’ll offend a group of people if you post it that way. He said thanks for making me aware of that and he pulled it down immediately. We’re tracking it, we’re watching it, we’re paying attention to it.”