Josh Hokitt dominated Derrick Lewis on Sunday night time on the UFC White Home, however determined to assault Michelle Obama within the post-fight interview, and UFC CEO Dana White mentioned he wasn’t joyful about it.
Hokit started his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan by focusing on Alex Pereira, who would face Cyril Gane for the vacant interim heavyweight title later that night time. Shortly after, he focused the previous first woman.
“Lastly, Michelle Obama is a person,” Hokit mentioned. “Am I proper, America?”
Dana White wasn’t requested about these phrases in his postgame press convention, however he commented in a textual content message to TIME.
“Whereas I perceive that the Obamas are public figures, I fully disagree with saying imply and unfaithful issues about folks’s households,” White wrote. “Everybody is aware of my place on free speech, however I hate that type of nonsense.”
This is not the primary time Hokit has used a postgame interview to assault Michelle Obama. However saying these phrases at an LFA occasion will not get the identical response as commenting about Michelle Obama at a UFC occasion on the South Garden of the White Home with President Donald Trump sitting Octagonside.
Mr Hokit’s feedback additionally sparked a detrimental response within the political world, with MP Melanie Stansbury calling them “disgusting”.
“Okay, let me be clear,” Stansbury wrote on social media. “The identical man who threw up on himself on stay TV throughout a weigh-in is now hurling insults at a former first woman? Disgusting. Welcome to the Trump administration.”
