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In the UFC’s latest promotional video blog for this weekend’s UFC 127 card, Michael Bisping uses a homophobic slur to insult his opponent, Jorge Rivera. This is the latest example of an ongoing problem of people involved with the UFC using completely unacceptable language. It needs to stop.
To be more specific, the UFC needs to stop it: The biggest and best mixed martial arts organization in the world needs to tell its fighters, staff and other employees that in 2011, homophobic slurs aren’t acceptable, and that those who can’t or won’t refrain from using such language are going to face serious consequences. And the UFC certainly shouldn’t feature the use of homophobic slurs in promotional materials like this video blog on the UFC’s own YouTube channel.