Matt Mitrione suspended over Fallon Fox comments
Matt Mitrione's contact was suspended over his comments he made about transgender fighter Fallon Fox on Monday's MMA Hour.
The heavyweight, who knocked out Phil de Fries over the weekend at UFC on FUEL 9 called Fox a "sick, sociopathic, disgusting freak."
"She's not a he. He's a he," Mitrione is quoted in media reports as saying. "He's chromosomally a man. He had a gender change, not a sex change. He's still a man. He was a man for 31 years. Thirty-one years. That's a couple years younger than I am. He's a man."
Calling Fox "an embarrassment" to fighters and to the sport, he added, "The woman that's fighting him, props to you. I hope you beat his a**, and I hope he gets blackballed and never fights again, because that's disgusting and I'm appalled by that."
Fallon replies
"Matt Mitrione went well beyond disagreeing with the medical experts who say I should be able to compete as a woman, and personally attacked me as a fighter, as a woman, and as a human being.
"His comments do not reflect the spirit of our sport, where most competitors uphold values like respect and dignity."
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