{"id":827964,"date":"2025-02-18T12:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/sean-strickland-annoyed-bryce-mitchell-apologized-but-doesnt-agree-with-comments\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:12:36","slug":"sean-strickland-annoyed-bryce-mitchell-apologized-but-doesnt-agree-with-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/sean-strickland-annoyed-bryce-mitchell-apologized-but-doesnt-agree-with-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland &#8216;annoyed&#8217; Bryce Mitchell apologized but doesn&#8217;t agree with comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-2802532\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/NewsArticle\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-02-04T21:20:28-05:00\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2025-02-05T08:22:44-05:00\"><\/p>\n<header>\n<div>\n<p><span><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nn50qUY9CaI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"author\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<p><span>February 4, 2025 9:20 pm ET<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"content-container\">\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/tag\/sean-strickland\">Sean Strickland<\/a> has an opinion about the <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/tag\/bryce-mitchell\">Bryce Mitchell<\/a> controversy that has dominated recent MMA headlines because, of course he does.<\/p>\n<p>Early in his session with reporters during Tuesday\u2019s media day for his <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-312\">UFC 312<\/a> title rematch with Dricus Du Plessis on Saturday at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney (<a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/AWz1AR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN+<\/a> pay-per-view, ESPN2, ESPN+), Strickland took it upon himself to shift gears into the situation involving UFC featherweight Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell sparked outrage this past week when he stated on the inaugural episode of his podcast that he felt Hitler <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2025\/01\/ufc-bryce-mitchell-hitler-good-guy\">was \u201ca good guy\u201d<\/a> and someone he would go fishing with. It was all part of a tangent that prompted UFC CEO Dana White to make a public statement condemning the remarks and labeled Mitchell as <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2025\/01\/ufc-dana-white-bryce-mitchell-hitler-rant-reaction\">\u201cone of the dumbest humans.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shortly thereafter, Mitchell <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2025\/02\/ufc-news-bryce-mitchell-hitler-nazi-statement\">issued an apology<\/a> on social media, but many felt it was insincere, and he\u2019s continued to be the target of much negative feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Strickland, who has spent time with Mitchell in the past and been the subject of many controversies for his own comments, said he thinks his fellow fighter is not a genuinely bad person. However, Strickland thinks Mitchell has been \u201cradicalized\u201d by certain world view points after going down a \u201crabbit hole,\u201d and it manifested in the highly-publicized incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think Bryce is a Nazi,\u201d Strickland said at UFC 312 media day. \u201cI think Bryce is a f*cking idiot from Arkansas who is not educated, and I think Bryce is just feeding into the propaganda. How many people actually agree with him? I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBryce, you\u2019re a f*cking idiot. You should not have said that. But, he is being radicalized and a lot of people support him and he\u2019s wrong. And we must also look at all the reasons why he said it and how he went down this path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite all that, Strickland (22-2 MMA, 8-0 UFC), who challenges Du Plessis (29-6 MMA, 16-6 UFC) for the middleweight title after <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2024\/01\/ufc-297-results-sean-strickland-vs-dricus-du-plessis-israel-adesanya\">losing the belt by split decision<\/a> in their first meeting at UFC 297 in January 2024, said he thinks Mitchell made a mistake with his apology statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that annoyed me about Bryce is he f*cking apologized,\u201d Strickland said. \u201cIf you\u2019re going to be a piece of sh*t, dude, you\u2019ve got to just double down and be a piece of sh*t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie\u2019s event hub for <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/tag\/ufc-312\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFC 312<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i><span dir=\"ltr\">Be sure to visit the MMA Junkie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mmajunkie\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> page and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MMAJunkieOfficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> channel to discuss this and more content with fans of mixed martial arts.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Mike Bohn<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2025\/02\/ufc-news-sean-strickland-annoyed-bryce-mitchell-apologized-hitler-comments\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 4, 2025 9:20 pm ET Sean Strickland has an opinion about the Bryce Mitchell controversy that has dominated recent MMA headlines because, of course he does. Early in his session with reporters during Tuesday\u2019s media day for his UFC 312 title rematch with Dricus Du Plessis on Saturday at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":827965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45866,94062],"tags":[18622,133219],"class_list":{"0":"post-827964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-annoyed","8":"category-strickland","9":"tag-annoyed","10":"tag-strickland"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}