UFC featherweight standout Bryce
Mitchell is a
flat earther who spends his time farming when he’s not training
or fighting. While he is now building a house, “Thug Nasty” has so
far lived in his 30-foot trailer on his 16-acre farm in Arkansas,
which he claims will “feed the lord’s army” when the time
comes.
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During a recent interview
with UFC commentator Brendan Fitzgerald, Mitchell revealed that
there has been a significant shift in his spirituality over the
course of the past year. The 28-year-old’s belief in God was sealed
courtesy of a particular incident which took place around the time
of his UFC 272 victory over Edson
Barboza.
Mitchell claims to have had an encounter with a possessed person
who was ransacking his home as he watched helplessly. It was then
that “Thug Nasty” fell back to his religious upbringing and
successfully cast out the “demon” by taking the name of Jesus
Christ.
“Well, I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ as I
was casting out a demon,” said Mitchell, who revealed that he now
regrets making fun of religious people in the past. “Exorcisms are
real… Well, I was in an argument with a person possessed by demons…
I could not get this possessed person out of my home.
“I’d invited this person into my home and they were destroying it
and they were possessed and I was witnessing a full-blown
possession, something that I never believed in. And I instantly
reverted back to my roots. I was raised by my mother who always
taught me the word of Jesus…And I said, ‘In the name of Jesus
Christ I command all evil to leave,’ and just like that (snap of a
finger), the possessed person was gone. They walked right out of
the door.”
Mitchell will look to bounce back from his first UFC loss when he
takes on Dan Ige in the
co-main event at
UFC Fight Night 228 on Saturday.