This past weekend, UFC heavyweight Matt Mitrione snapped his two-fight losing skid when he knocked out Phil De Fries in just 19-seconds during their UFC on FUEL TV 9 battle.
On Monday, Mitrione joined Ariel Helwani on “The MMA Hour” which airs on MMA Fighting to chat about his knockout, but also had some rather choice words about transgendered fighter Fallon Fox.
Ariel Helwani asked Mitrione, “Why do you hate Fallon Fox so much, and why do you keep calling she a ‘he’?”
“Because she’s not a he. He’s a he,” he said. “He’s chromosomally a man. He had a gender change, not a sex change. He’s still a man. He was a man for 31 years. Thirty-one years. That’s a couple years younger than I am. He’s a man. Six years of taking performance de-hancing drugs, you think is going to change all that? That’s ridiculous.
“That is a lying, sick, sociopathic, disgusting freak,” he continued. “And I mean that. Because you lied on your license to beat up women. That’s disgusting. You should be embarrassed yourself. And the fact that Florida licensed him because California licensed him or whoever the hell did it, it’s an embarrassment to us as fighters, as a sport, and we all should protest that. The woman that’s fighting him, props to you. I hope you beat his ass, and I hope he gets blackballed and never fights again, because that’s disgusting and I’m appalled by that.”
According to Bloody Elbow, the UFC has suspended Mitrione’s contract and the incident will be under a full investigation.
“The UFC was appalled by the transphobic comments made by heavyweight Matt Mitrione today in an interview on “the MMA Hour”.
“The organization finds Mr Mitrione’s comments offensive and wholly unacceptable and – as a direct result of this significant breach of the UFC’s code of conduct – Mr Mitrione’s 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’s code of conduct has been breached before by numerous fighters via social media outlets and they have either been suspended or released. No word as to the length of the suspension at this point.
