Dana White calls out Josh Hokit for ‘gross’ Michelle Obama comment after UFC White House card win

“It’s f—ing gross, inappropriate, and obviously not the opinion of the UFC,” White said. “It was a really unfortunate thing to happen that night.”

Here is White’s full statement, per CBS Sports:

Well, if you look leading into that show, everybody was talking about. You know, got the people that are always gonna say, ‘Oh, this is political. This is a MAGA party. The President is throwing his own birthday party’ and all this bull—. It’s the 250th birthday of America. To have the opportunity to be able to celebrate that at the White House the way we did. And I said leading up to that event, ‘If you’re far left. If you’re far right. If you’re right down the middle. This show is for everybody that is an American.’ We’re going to talk about the history of America, and it’s at the White House. All this stuff. Obviously, Barack and Michelle Obama are public figures. And when you’re a public figure, you guys know, I’m sure you guys deal with your own level of bull— and people talking. It’s part of the gig. But what I don’t like is, first of all, former First Lady of the United States. No. 2, a wife, a mother. It’s f—ing gross. Right? It’s inappropriate, the timing of it and everything. I think that people understand. There are people you can’t talk to and can’t change their mind, and you can’t, whatever. Obviously, it’s not the opinion of the UFC. It’s not my opinion or anybody else who fought on that card. It was a really unfortunate thing to happen that night. When you hit this f—ing grand slam home run and have a perfect event in every way that it could be… you got a f—ing moronic, you know, it just. But, you know, other than that, it was a great f—ing night. What are you gonna do?

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UFC commentator and former champion Daniel Cormier was one of the many people not thrilled with what Hokit said post-victory. Here’s what the former heavyweight said:

Former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III also joined in against Hokit’s words against the former First Lady. Here’s what the 2011 Heisman winner said:

MORE: What did Josh Hokit say about Michelle Obama?

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What did Josh Hokit say about Michelle Obama?

After a series of initial post-fight questions and answers, Hokit made a shocking statement before walking out of the octagon. Before he bade the crowd adieu for the night, Hokit said, “Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right America?”

He was received with a mixed reaction from the crowd. Here’s a quick look at what Hokit said.

During the following week, footage from CNN was released that showed Donald Trump taking off the fighter’s chain that he had just received after Hokit made his remark, per TMZ.

Hokit also had the chance to appear on “The Ariel Helwani Show” as a guest, where he gave his reasoning as to why he said it. The fighter clearly did not attend the show to apologize for what he said. In fact, Hokit seemed not to see anything wrong with his comment.

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“I thought I was giving her a compliment. Michelle Obama being a man, that’s like she knows how to deal with adversity,” Hokit said at 15:26 of this podcast episode. “She knows how to work hard like a man.”

Helwani later asked the fighter if he regretted sharing his comment, to which Hokit said, “Oh, never. You’ll never hear me backtrack from what I say.”

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