Bryce Mitchell, UFC 314 press convention Credit score: Youtube/UFC
Bryce Mitchell seemed something if not dejected whereas booed closely at Friday’s UFC 314 press convention in Las Vegas.
The featherweight has not recovered from outright braindead feedback made weeks in the past, the place he instructed NAZI dictator Adolf Hitler was a “good guy,” and that earlier than he “got on meth,” “he was a guy to go fishing with.”
Whereas Mitchell, who isn’t any stranger to dumb statements, later tried to stroll the feedback again, the injury was finished. He’s been public enemy primary within the UFC ever since, and that’s saying one thing in a promotion that sees considered one of both Jon Jones or Conor McGregor in scandals each different month.
Thursday’s presser noticed Bryce Mitchell given an opportunity to elucidate himself by veteran journalist John Morgan, however “Thug Nasty” might barely get a phrase in earlier than UFC 314 opponent Jean Silva interrupted.
“As Jesus said,” Mitchell started, earlier than Silva broke in. “F*ck Bryce Mitchell. F*ck Bryce Mitchell. F*ck Bryce Mitchell.”
Mitchell sat in silence whereas the mantra continued, and whereas Silva tried to get the followers to hitch in. “You’re barking up the wrong tree motherf*cker” Mitchell lastly interjected, to little impact. Silva responded by holding aloft a globe, taunting the Arkansas native, whose flat-Earth beliefs have been broadly ridiculed.
“Oh so you’re a scientist now. Tell us more,” Mitchell acknowledged sarcastically. “You’re going to start seeing the world as round. You’re going to start seeing that soon,” Silva replied. If Silva will get his manner, Mitchell will little question be seeing stars as properly.
Mitchell’s look on the press convention nearly felt like penance in a manner. Or maybe outright punishment, as placing him on show below these circumstances appears akin to compelled contrition, and the UFC might simply have opted to provide him a go. But whereas Dana White has positioned himself as a champion of free speech, that speech can have penalties, and Mitchell felt them on Friday.
When the #13-ranked Mitchell tried to talk up for himself once more, Jean Silva was having none of it. “Bryce Mitchell, calm down bro. You’re only here because of me. You’re only here cause of me. I have advice for you. Don’t pick up the mic. It’s getting ugly.”
It was, however Mitchell wasn’t finished. “You can tap when you want out,” he exclaimed. Presumably from a submission in April. It was Mitchell who appeared to need out on Friday.
Silva was certain so as to add a number of extra digs. “Let me tell you something. Get used to seeing the world as round, baby. You know what’s the crazy thing? Look at me Bryce. Oh you’re looking at the screen?” Silva then went straight for the kill. “Not even you believe in yourself.”
Mitchell insisted that Jesus believed in him, coming again with “you have lord on your chest, I have the lord in my heart,” in reference to Silva’s “Lord” tattoo. “We’ll see who wins.”
We’ll see who wins the battle in April, however Bryce Mitchell was something however a winner on Friday.
