
It’s awesome that the UFC has exploded in popularity during the social media age. Now we’ve got guys tweeting and posting things within hours of having their brains scrambled. Though that isn’t to say a fighter needs to have just been knocked out to post something stupid, they do that all the time!
Unfortunately sometimes this leads to fighters being fined or fired, as was the case with many of these entries. Not to mention fighters can be some of the most politically incorrect people in the world, and social media is heavily policed by the politically correct at the moment.
Here are eight social media posts that got UFC fighters into trouble…
8. War Machine Posts Blog on Evan Tanner
Granted, War Machine would go on to make far bigger mistakes in his life, but this was still pretty bad. The former TUF competitor was fired for posting some fairly insensitive, and totally incorrect, comments about Evan Tanner.
Tanner had died due to exposure to the elements while going on something of a spiritual journey in the desert. War Machine wrongly deemed this to have been a suicide.