Yesterday, MMAWeekly reported that UFC Lightweight, Jacob Volkmann received a visit from the Secret Service who were investigating a threat from Volkmann when he called out President Obama during an interview with Ariel Helwani. Volkmann said, “Someone’s got to knock some sense into that idiot.” See video below:
We at MMAFix are all for protecting the president, but find it somewhat silly that tax dollars were wasted on this investigation (apparently at the fault of some dumb lady). Volkmann told MMAWeekly.com:
“This guy had the whole interview on a piece of paper and it had my picture and everything. He was like ‘is this what you said?’ and I said, ‘yes it is.’ He’s like ‘I want to let you know I’m a little embarrassed for coming here and doing this because obviously nothing happened.’ He actually apologized for coming, but he had to come. He wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to D.C to hurt the President… The thing is, I got home and I checked my e-mail and I had about 20 e-mails and one of them, one of [the] ladies had actually contacted the FBI and the Secret Service, and she was telling me that she was going to do it.”
We also wonder where this “lady” was when War Machine made his infamous comment regarding President Obama via MySpace: “I hope someone smokes that f#$@er…”
We guess hoping for someone to kill the President is not as threatening as saying you’d like to fight him in the Octagon if Joe Silva could make that happen.