Mixed martial arts (MMA) BEEF ALERT!
This past weekend, the popular JAXXON podcast, hosted by Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) legend Rampage Jackson and Bear Degidio, caught some serious flack from social media for deleting their episode with UFC Featherweight and Adolf Hitler enjoyer Bryce Mitchell after they refused to give him a platform … but invited him on the show anyways.
Recently, former UFC Light Heavyweight Anthony Smith went on his new podcast and ripped the JAXXON for their censorship and deletion of Mitchell’s appearance.
“You can disagree with [Bryce], but whole ‘We’re not going to give you a platform,’ shut the f—k up. Then don’t bring him on,” Smith said. “Don’t fly the motherf—ker across the country to sit him there and on him…You know what you’re getting when you bring Bryce Mitchell on; it’s your responsibility to know that. You don’t get to bring him on there and then f—king dunk on him in front of front of the whole world when he’s already down.
“You bring fighters on, you shit on them—It happened to me,” Smith added. “You brought me on, you’re super cool to me. I had a good time. I love Rampage, he’s my favorite fighter, I’ve said that for years. You’ve heard me say that Rampage is my favorite fighter a hundred times. You bring me on, I have an amazing time, and then, like, several months later, you’re on there with Dillashaw f—cking making fun of me. That’s what they do, that’s their thing. Honestly, it’s less Rampage; he’s just kind of the funny ha-ha guy, and he just laughs about stuff.
“They’re just not great to fighters; they make fun of a lot of people,” Smith concluded. “They did the same shit to Ian Garry when he was supposed to go on the show, and then they spent the show before that calling him a cuck. Whether you think Ian Garry’s a cuck or not, you can’t bring the motherf—cker on the show the next episode after calling him a cuck and making fun of his family dynamic or him and his wife and his kids. I don’t agree with that.”
This is Anthony Smith’s video that got Rampage Jackson mad.
On his own podcast @theonpaperpod Anthony talked about the Bryce Mitchell episode on Jaxxon pod. https://t.co/pXJoWhWu8O pic.twitter.com/RgVlDfJ4Fk
— Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) February 13, 2025
Rampage has been replying to people on social media about the screw-up that he and his co-host did with the now-deleted podcast, but when he saw Smith’s rant, he responded directly with “Lionheart” … and he was pissed off.
“I love doing this podcast. This podcast got me back into MMA, and I’ve met a lot of fighters since I started doing this f—king podcast, and I’ve always stayed away from the fighters because I’m different from y’all, and this is a motherf—king problem right here, me being different from y’all,” Jackson said. “I saw this f—king post that Anthony Smith did; I saw it this morning, and it f—king pissed me off. When T.J. sat right motherf—king here and said you’ll never be champion and said that you f—king gave up, Bear and I f—king had your back, and that’s why we were saying, ‘Lionheart,’ with a f—king nickname like Lionheart? Not ‘Lying Heart.’”
“You took it as Bear and I were making fun of you. Bear and I actually liked your b-tch ass, but now you’re a motherf—king b-tch because at first I didn’t say shit because I DM’d you. I looked at it, I could see how could think that I was making fun of him, too, so I DM’d you. I f—king said to you in the DM, ‘Look here, I wasn’t making fun of you.’ Because I could have made fun of you.
“Fighters, we make fun of each other,” Rampage added. “Yeah, I’m a comedian pretending to be a motherf—king fighter, but the problem is motherf—ker, I really can fight. I hope I calm down when I see you because motherf—kers like you get b-tch-smacked for real. You did some b-tch shit; you left me on read on your f—king DMs when I tried to f—king explain to you I wasn’t making fun of your b-tch ass.”
Rampage then got up from his seat and walked off, but on his way out of the podcast, he sent one last message to Smith.
“This shit got me pissed off. I’m going to tell you, tell that Anthony Smith motherf—ker, call that motherf—ker up, tell him to keep my motherf—king name out of his motherf—king mouth. I see his bitch ass I’m going to smack the f—k out of him.”