LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — In the first episode of his new podcast, UFC fighter and Arkansas native Bryce Mitchell praised Adolf Hitler and denied that the Holocaust happened.
Mitchell, who appeared on the ArkanSanity podcast along with Roli Delgado, would start talking about Hitler during a conversation about Elon Musk making a gesture similar to a Nazi salute.
The two would talk about Musk’s salute and the billionaire’s behavior on social media before Mitchell would praise Hitler.
“I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy based upon my own research, not my public education indoctrination,” Mitchell said to Delgado. “I really do think before Hitler got on meth, he was a guy I’d go fishing with.”
Mitchell would continue with antisemitic and homophobic statements, saying Hitler “wanted to purify [Germany] by kicking the greedy Jews out that were destroying his country and turning them all into gays.”
The fighter would also claim the Holocaust never happened after Delgado said it was “bad to put a whole race into camps.”
“That’s what your public education will tell you Roli because you believe your public education because you haven’t done your own research,” Mitchell said during his rant. “When you realize there’s no possible way they could’ve burned and cremated six million bodies, you’re gonna realize the Holocaust ain’t real.”
From 1941 to 1945, Nazis would murder six million Jewish people through mass shootings and gas chambers at what were called extermination camps. The six million people that died accounted for nearly two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population at the time.
In total, the Nazis would target and kill an estimated 17 million people in total based on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disabilities, or their political beliefs.
Even though Mitchell would praise Hitler, he claimed he didn’t hate Jewish people and that he wasn’t a Nazi and didn’t love them. “I’m just saying they were in a bad spot when Hitler come to power.”
The fighter also commented on the internment camps of Japanese people in the United States, including two camps in southeast Arkansas. He defended that practice by saying it was a “different time” and that “we’d do it again if we had to.”
In response to Mitchell’s rant and praise of Hitler, UFC CEO Dana White called Mitchell “one of the dumbest human beings.”
“I’ve heard dumb, ignorant s*** in my day. This one is probably the worst,” White said during a Power Slap press conference. “When you talk about Hitler, he is responsible for the death of 6 million Jews and he tried to eliminate a race of people.”
Although he would call Mitchell out for his comments, White said he won’t face any punishment for his comments on the podcast.
“It’s free speech, I don’t have to love, you don’t have love it,” White said to a question about any discipline. “That’s the beautiful thing about this business. For all of you who hate Bryce Mitchell, you get to see him hopefully get his a** whooped on global television.”
