This past weekend, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight Bryce Mitchell made his first public appearance since he controversially called Adolf Hitler a “good guy” and said he “would want to go fishing” with him.
“Thug Nasty” appeared on the wildly popular JAXXON podcast, hosted by UFC legend Rampage Jackson and Bear Degidio. However, the episode did not go as planned and has since been deleted.
But the internet exists; thus, nothing stays deleted forever … well, the YouTube video might be gone, but there is still a clip of it.
As expected, Mitchell tried to clarify what he meant by saying Hitler was a good guy.
“I wish I didn’t have to talk about it at all, but the severity of it being that this is the first time I’ve shown my face since I said I do want to talk about it,” Mitchell said. “First things first, I said word-for-word, I am not a Nazi, you can go back and watch it. I said Hitler was a good guy after that I said before he committed all of the atrocities but they didn’t play the whole podcast.”
Degidio then cut off Mitchell.
“Brother, you don’t know him, right? You don’t know the severity of what he did to the world,” Degidio said. “Obviously, I could tell you don’t know for you to be able to even relaxingly say that word that he was a good guy, and I’m not even going to give him the benefit of saying his name. But those extremist ideologies, the things he did to, you know, millions of people, are some of the most disgusting, most evil things the world has ever seen.”
“Now, we’re not going to give you a platform today to talk about anything that even remotely supports that,” Degidio added. “We’re not going to give you a platform to justify what you said. Matter of fact, me and Rampage talked about this, we’re not even going to give you a platform to explain yourself on that. I personally just feel with the things that he did and the millions of people that died, there’s no justification pre or post whatever you did say.”
Degidio went on for another two minutes to lecture Mitchell about Hitler, repeating that he wouldn’t allow Mitchell to justify himself.
In theory, it is perfectly understandable why the JAXXON podcast did not want to give Mitchell a platform to justify his dumb comments, but why did they have him on in the first place? Especially because this was Mitchell’s first appearance since the controversy.
Yeah, they could ask “Thug Nasty” about the time he drilled his nuts, or why he doesn’t wear seatbelts, or his most recent knockout win (watch highlights), but to completely silence him on the thing that the world wants an explanation for is just completely pointless.
When the podcast came out this past weekend, and clips started going viral, fans were infuriated and criticized the podcast, leading to JAXXON deleting it from their channel.
Why have him on if he can’t even explain why he said what he said .
Your fucking weird @Beardegidio
If you wanted to preach to him all day then just call him on his phone
The whole point is to hear what he has to say and explain himself
— SU (@Nolimitsu_) February 8, 2025
So basically get Bryce on to exploit him for views, whilst at the same time condemning him and using him to take the moral high ground
— MMA Headz (@MMAHEADZ) February 9, 2025
I think this conversation could have really helped the guy if it happened in private. This is a lame setup that accomplishes nothing.
You know his point of view, you book him on your show, and don’t let him explain himself or debate anything. Seems like a waste, why invite him?
— Mycroft Homeless (@funnyOnceJokes) February 9, 2025