No one would start a podcast with a controversial remark, would they? Well, at least they won’t intentionally try to. 17-3-0 featherweight star Bryce Mitchell thinks a bit differently, though. “I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy based on my research, not my public education indoctrination. I do think before Hitler got on m–h, he was a guy to go fishing with.” This is what he said on the debut episode of his podcast Arkansanity on YouTube. You would assume people have gotten used to his bizarre remarks, be it on Elon Musk or Flat Earth, but think again.
He was pretty open with his remarks on Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust during his podcast and made some pretty gnarly homophobic comments, too — a recipe for an utterly devastating disaster.
Will any amount of apology or comment correct what has already been done? Who knows? But Mitchell tried his best to rectify his stance and posted on Instagram about the same. “I’m sorry I sounded insensitive,” Mitchell wrote on Instagram on Saturday. “I was not trying to offend anybody, but I know I did. I know that a lot of people died in the Holocaust, and that’s a fact. Hitler did a lot of evil things, I think we can all agree on that. I’m not a Na*i, and do not condone any of the evil things Hitler did.”
But “A word once spoken cannot be taken back“ is a proverb that proves to be true yet again. Fans and veterans alike are questioning Mitchell’s motive for saying what he did, and the saga has not ended yet. Recently, Dan ‘The Outlaw’ Hardy spoke about the incident and tried to dissect the thought process that the Arkansas fighter might be having.
While speaking on the recent Submission Radio podcast, he touched upon the massive can of worms that would spill if he started talking about the political system under which Mitchell and so many others grew up in. He gave the benefit of the doubt to Mitchell and spoke about his beliefs, including the earth being flat — you saw that right. Bryce Mitchell had advocated before that the earth is flat.
Hardy explained that with many lies of the government bodies that have been proven right, people are more skeptical about everything now more than ever. He continued, “I mean, pity is an ugly word, isn’t it but I feel sorry for Bryce. Because I feel like his world is very small. I feel like he’s looking down the center of a toilet roll and not seeing much more of it. Bless him. And the ridicule is not going to help because he’s going to further embed him into his opinions. Because it seems to be a very American trait. If you attack someone’s beliefs. They become even more embedded into their beliefs, you know what I mean?”
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Hardy thinks that Bryce Mitchell is in sort of a ‘trap’ with all the conspiracy theories and what the government tells us. Hardy feels sorry for Mitchell’s outlooks; to put it simply. But the world might be not as kind as he is towards Mitchell. Take Youtube, for instance, which decided to take strict action against the fighter.
YouTube takes necessary steps after Bryce Mitchell’s pro-Hitler talk
The 145 er’s remarks, where he appeared to praise the Nazi dictator for “kicking the greedy” Jews out of Germany, sparked instant outrage worldwide. Both Jewish and non-Jewish communities reprimanded his comments, including UFC light heavyweight contender Jan Blachowicz.
Even UFC CEO Dana White also expressed his anger at the controversial statement that Mitchell so freely expressed. “I’ve heard a lot of dumb and ignorant s— said over the years, but this is probably the worst,“ White said in a statement to ESPN. However, the boss did not choose to take any disciplinary action against ‘Thug Nasty’, stating his action as the result of “free speech”.
But YouTube was pretty stringent with the incident, and as per an MMA-focused page on X, the platform took down the podcast episode, and it is no longer available on YouTube. Do you think this incident will ever be forgotten and Mitchell’s reputation be restored? Tell us in the comments below.
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