Dave Portnoy made a pointed effort to celebrate Bryce Mitchell’s defeat at UFC 314 following the MMA fighter’s shocking anti-Semitic comments.
The Barstool Sports founder was in attendance at the UFC fight night in Miami, alongside Donald Trump and the president’s political entourage, and had a front row seat for Jean Silva’s victory over Mitchell.
The Brazilian made easy work of taking down his American opponent, securing a win by submission in the second round of their clash, which coincidentally took place on the first night of Passover.
And Portnoy made no secret of who he had been backing as he pulled out an eye-catching celebration of Silva’s triumph over Mitchell.
The 48-year-old shared a video of himself waving an Israel flag and wearing yarmulke as Silva could be seen leaping to the top of the cage in victory in the background.
‘Always fun to see a Hitler lover get his a** whooped,’ the American businessman wrote alongside the clip on X.
Dave Portnoy waved an Israel flag in celebration of Bryce Mitchell’s UFC 314 defeat
The American MMA fighter was defeated by Jean Silva in the octagon Saturday night
Portnoy’s choice of celebration comes almost three months after Mitchell sparked controversy with his comments on Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a vile anti-Semitic rant.
In January, the MMA fighter described Adolf Hitler as a ‘good guy’ and denied the Holocaust ever happened, while praising the former Nazi Party leader for wanting to ‘purify’ Germany from ‘greedy Jews’.
‘I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy based upon my own research, not my public education indoctrination,’ the 30-year-old said on his show ‘Arkansanity’.
‘I really do think before Hitler got on meth, he was a guy I’d go fishing with. He fought for his country. He wanted to purify it by kicking the greedy Jews out that were destroying his country and turning them all into gays.
‘They were gaying out the kids. They were queering out the women. They were queering out the dudes.’
When his co-host, Roli Delgado, replied that it was ‘bad to put a whole race into camps’, Mitchell claimed that Holocaust ‘ain’t real’.
He continued: ‘That’s what your public education will tell you Roli, because you believe your public education because you haven’t done your own research.
‘When you realize there’s no possible way they could’ve burned and cremated six million bodies, you’re gonna realize the Holocaust ain’t real.’
Mitchell sparked controversy with his comments on Nazi Germany in a vile anti-Semitic rant
In January, Mitchell described Adolf Hitler as a ‘good guy’ and denied the Holocaust happened
Hitler presided over the systematic killing of six million Jews across Europe between 1941 and 1945.
Despite his claims, Mitchell insisted ‘I’m not a Nazi’, adding: ‘He (Hitler) ain’t perfect. I’m not a Nazi. I don’t love Nazi. I don’t want Nazis to win the war. I’m just saying they were in a bad spot when Hitler come to power.’
There is little debate the Nazi dictator is one of the most evil men to have ever lived, with unprecedented depravity against people he didn’t think worthy of living under the Third Reich.
Around 85 million people were killed during the Second World War, a devastating and bloody conflict sparked by his relentless pursuit of a global empire.
Portnoy, who is Jewish, has previously publicly backed Israel over its ‘right to exist and defend itself’ as the state repelled drone attacks from Iran last April.
‘There is no country that is consistently attacked by their enemies + then told to use restraint when defending themselves (despite superior military) more than Israel,’ Portnoy wrote in a post on X at the time.
Barstool Sports chief Portnoy previously came to the defense of Israel amid attacks from Iran
Portnoy stressed that he’s hoping for a peaceful solution in the region, while defending Israel amid widespread criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military action in Gaza.
‘I want peace for all innocents in Middle East,’ Portnoy wrote. ‘I also fully support Israel’s right to exist + defend itself.’
While he was born to a Jewish family in Swampscott, Massachusetts, Portnoy insists his support of Israel isn’t based in religion or his ethnicity, but rather his belief that the country has a right to exist.