Posted on 04/24/2013 5:46:35 AM PDT by massmike
Matt Mitrione was suspended indefinitely by the UFC on Monday, hours after the heavyweight fighter and former NFL defensive lineman called transgender MMA competitor Fallon Fox a lying, sick, sociopathic, disgusting freak in an interview.
The UFC was appalled by the transphobic comments made by heavyweight Matt Mitrione today in an interview on the 'MMA Hour,' the UFC said in a statement Monday evening. The organization finds Mr. Mitriones comments offensive and wholly unacceptable and as a direct result of this significant breach of the UFCs code of conduct Mr. Mitriones UFC contract has been suspended and the incident is being investigated.
The UFC is a friend and ally of the LGBT community and expects and requires all 450 of its athletes to treat others with dignity and respect," the UFC statement continued.
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Seriously I don’t see the need to be mean. I don’t understand why someone would do this to themself - look he is a normal nice looking guy in the first picture. But really if you are going to get all that surgery and cut things off you must be really unhappy. She has my sympathy in that regard. But as for why she was called a lying sociopath - that’s probably another issue that’s being obscured by POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
She?
That’s what she wants to be called, that’s what I called her, just common courtesy.
Fallon Fox IS a lying, sick, sociopathic, disgusting freak.
I'd still hit it, though.
That's so gay .... UFC jumped the shark.
People unclear on the concept thought that boycotting the Dixie Chicks after their remarks was a violation of their 1st Amendment rights.
If you say something your employer doesn't like they can (and will) fire you. The 1st Amendment doesn't apply unless your employer is the government.
Homosexuals want to be called gay too.
Nothing gay about them. SSAD is an example of people making a sick choice, but they put a nice rainbow balloon unicorn name to their behavior to make it more acceptable.
You can’t change the sex that God made you, this guy is a guy. Although a very sick mutilated freak of a man now.
“I’d still hit it, though.”
And she could hit you back - big time!
I’m guessing you’d like that...
;^)
Wow, you are one of those guys. I am no way unclear about the first amendment. You, and others like you, are the ones unclear. Did the article say he was under investigation or not? It did, and to me investigation means the government, at least at the law enforcement level. Last time I looked the 1st prohibits any laws being made to restrict free speech, that would include local laws as well as federal since all the amendments have been incorporated within the states. I wasn’t talking about him being fired, I was talking about the “investigation”.
It is clear, to me at least, from the statement by the ufc employee that it was being investigated by the ufc.
zot
Well, the guy beats up girls for a living. How lame is that?
transphobic?
are these weirdo’s serious?
a man who fights women
crazy
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