Former UFC star, Miguel Torres has hit out at promotional CEO, Dana White on social media in a single day, over his lack of punishment issued to featherweight challenger, Bryce Mitchell after the Arkansas native engaged in a pro-Adolf Hitler tirade on his YouTube channel.
Torres, an alum of the UFC’s bantamweight division, and an ex-WEC bantamweight champion, was handed his launch from the Octagon again in 2011, after he posted a quote from the Workaholics tv present on his official Twitter account, writing; “If a rape van was called a surprise van more women wouldn’t mind going for rides in them. Everyone likes surprises.”
Returning to the promotion again in December of that very same 12 months, Miguel Torres would struggle former contender, Michael McDonald at UFC 145, struggling a primary spherical knockout loss in April of the next 12 months.
Miguel Torres rips Dana White for “hypocrisy” over free speech stance
Nevertheless, on social media in a single day, Indiana native, Miguel Torres hit out at White after the long-time promotional chief confirmed Mitchell wouldn’t be reprimanded after claiming the above-mentioned German dictator, Hitler was a “good guy”, in addition to questioning the Holocaust and making derogatory claims in regards to the LGBTQ+ group.
“If a rape van was called a Hitler van Dana White wouldn’t mind going for a ride in it,” Miguel Torres posted on his official X account. “#hypocrisy #danawhite #arielhelwani #joerogan #FreeSpeech #UFC”
Earlier this week, White claimed throughout an interview with commentator, Tucker Carlson that he wouldn’t be punishing Mitchell for his deplorable feedback, claiming if critics had been sad along with his stance, the UFC was his group to run whichever manner he needed.
“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 informed 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 evening once I discovered what Bryce Mitchell had mentioned It’s not like we bought a bunch of attorneys on the cellphone and we didn’t, you recognize what I did? I bought 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 superb man and why you wouldn’t need to go fishing with him And that was it. You recognize, I noticed individuals saying, oh, he learn a can, I don’t ever learn can statements. No person writes something for me.
“…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.”
