Columnist: Sonnen an "ultimate racist"?

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What we do know about Chael Sonnen is that he is the number one contender for the Ultimate Fighting Championship's (UFC) middleweight title and a Republican nominee for the Oregon State Legislature. In the UFC, Chael Sonnen has become better known for vitriol and increasingly racist sounding messages on twitter than his fighting ability. Now I am waiting for these xenophobic and scathing public pronouncements to bring him infamy in the political world where he is also competing.

Sonnen has become famous in the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) world through a twitter account that has been making increasingly outrageous and sometimes racist statements. On twitter.com/sonnench there are memorable tweets such as: "I'm a gangster from Oregon"... "Anderson, [Chael Sonnen's next MMA opponent] you are going to be on your back more than a pornstar with a mortgage"... and what I find most offensive "Ed [a Brazilian American MMA manager], pray to whatever Demon effigy you prance and dance in front of with your piglet tribe of savages that I decide not to CRUCIFY you."

I see this last tweet as racist and xenophobic and was wondering how a candidate of a major party for the State Legislature was getting away with this. So I reached out to some Oregon press asking them why they haven't challenged this candidate on this type of talk. A reporter I emailed said he would take up the story. A couple of days ago he emailed me and said that Sonnen denied that he ever made the statements and that the twitter account is a fake one.

This has amazed me. Almost every major MMA website has quoted for months from this now allegedly fake twitter account and commented on the derogatory statements attributed to Sonnen, yet I have not seen one public denial of the twitter account or the xenophobic statements. It looks very suspicious that Sonnen, only when a story is being written that could have negative consequences to his political career, quietly denies these widely cited comments.

It is widely believed that a major reason Sonnen got to fight Anderson Silva for the middleweight championships is because of his trash talking but now we are to believe that one of the most cited sources for Sonnen's verbal assaults has nothing to do with him. In any professional political campaign if someone is posing as the candidate and making highly quoted and offensive statements, the campaign would quickly and publicly deny and condemn such statements. It is time that Chael Sonnen and his campaign make clear where they stand.

As a whole I don't care what fighters say, as long as they are professional in the Octagon, but a professional politician should be held to much higher standards. Chael Sonnen has proven in the UFC that he is a great fighter. In politics he is proving to be just another politician trying to have it both ways. I guess we will see in November if this ultimate fighter can win political office by being an ultimate faker.


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 this doesnt bode well for the misconception that all MMA fighters/fans are racists

I think Chael is funny...does that make me raciest?

 So this journalist wrote an article based on Twitter, and then eamiled a reporter and used what that reporter said as a credible soruce, without confirming it with Chael first?  As a journalist, shouldnt he have contacted Chael himself to confirm what the other " reporter I emailed" claimed was true?

this journalist is a fucking hack

good troll though

wish i thought of it.

 What a deutch bag

 Whole column is a little bizarre. Sonnen became famous through a twitter account? A reporter told that Sonnen said? Calling Ed Soares a member of a piglet tribe is racist?

 its fucking huffpo, what do you expect? its the left leaning version of fox news. 

Liberal mindset... they see racism and invent it when it isnt even there.

 he doing a great job promoting this fight! I could care less about his political asprirations! Keep up the good work Chael!

I thought it was mandatory to be racist to be a republican.

Politicians and pundits at a much higher level are guilty of saying all kinds of racist shit about Obama.

Say what you will about Sonnen, he sells it.

He does come off as very borderline racist, being a Repub doesn't help either, also Oregon is a racist state isn't it?

Kirik -  Calling Ed Soares a member of a piglet tribe is racist?


The full context is "whatever Demon effigy you prance and dance in front of with your piglet tribe of savages"

This entire statement is about as xenophobic and racist as it gets. It directly insults or implies an insult against an individuals religion, race and culture.

surely you see that ?.

I think this account must be fake, or Sonnon is extremely stupid. Either one are a possibility.

Chael is funny at times. But lately he has been letting his mouth run away with him.

i think the idiot journalist has confused pre-fight hype and rhetoric for a legitemate political interview.

sorry, i meant; idiot jounalist?

LOL.. I'm getting a chance to meet Sonnen today...



I hope he says some outlandish shit..


the columnist should be fired

goggs2009 - Liberal mindset... they see racism and invent it when it isnt even there.


 +1 i am a liberal by nature but you are dead on with this statement. This is nothing more than a shitty journalist making a story out of nothing!

Consider the source guys...these kind of articles need to stop


Formerly, Dedrick served as the National Field Director for Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network. He also was the coordinator for the Racial Wealth Divide Project of United For A Fair Economy.