UFC featherweight contender, Bryce Mitchell is about to make his return to fight sports activities later this yr — beneath the banner of Karate Fight, taking up LFA prospect, Israeli finisher, Ilay Barzilay in a pit submission conflict matchup later this month.
Mitchell, the present quantity 13 ranked divisional contender on the featherweight restrict within the UFC, is about to characteristic for the primary time in fight sports activities since his deplorable pro-Adolf Hitler feedback and antisemitic tirade throughout an look on his podcast at first of this month.
And going unpunished for his feedback, Mitchell stays beneath contract with the UFC — with promotional boss, Dana White confirming he wouldn’t punish the Arkansas native for his feedback — citing “free speech” as the principle motive why.
“A lot of the things that I do are by, I guess I would just say gut and how I think we should handle it,” Dana White advised Tucker Carlson. “It’s not like, once more, my head of PR, she’s sensible and I respect her very a lot, however it’s not like the opposite night time once I came upon what Bryce Mitchell had mentioned It’s not like we received a bunch of attorneys on the cellphone and we didn’t, you recognize what I did? I received on Google and I began wanting up World Warfare II and, you recognize, remind Bryce Mitchell on what a bit of sh*t (Adolf) Hitler was, okay, let’s, and why he’s not a great man and why you wouldn’t need to go fishing with him And that was it. You recognize, I noticed folks saying, oh, he learn a can, I don’t ever learn can statements. No one writes something for me.
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“…Nobody writes anything for me,” Dana White defined. “Everything is exactly how I feel about it, whether you like it or not. I don’t care. I don’t care if you like it — I don’t care if you don’t like it. This is my company and I’ll run it the way I want to.”
Bryce Mitchell takes on Israeli prospect, Ilay Barzilay at Karate Fight occasion
And this night, Uncrowned reporter, Ariel Helwani reported how Bryce Mitchell is about to tackle Israeli prospect, Ilay Barzilay in a pit submission match beneath the Karate Fight banner on February 28.
Ilay Barzilay x Bryce Mitchell has been signed for subsequent week’s Karate Fight 53 occasion,” Helwani posted on X. “It’ll be a Pit Submission (grappling) 180-pound catchweight fight, per promotion officials. Feb. 28. Denver.”
Ilay Barzilay x Bryce Mitchell has been signed for subsequent week’s Karate Fight 53 occasion. It’ll be a Pit Submission (grappling) 180-pound catchweight combat, per promotion officers.
Feb. 28. Denver. pic.twitter.com/rUF2uH2V7W
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) February 20, 2025
Himself within the midst of a powerful 6-0 skilled blended martial arts run, Island Fights and Cage Warriors alum, Barzilay has turned in a powerful 4 straight victories since his transfer to LFA again in 2023.
Final trip, the Syndicate MMA staple landed a unanimous resolution overcome Kohl Laren at LFA 198 again in December of final yr in California.
