UFC star Bryce Mitchell's friends apparently telling him 'load your guns because somebody's gonna take you out'

• UFC star Bryce Mitchell has generated mainstream attention.
• But it's not because of his grappling skills inside the UFC's Octagon.

LAS VEGAS — UFC star Bryce Mitchell made a guest appearance on Fox News earlier this week and talked to Tucker Carlson about his view on war, the Federal Reserve, and COVID-induced shuttering of small businesses.

A 27-year-old from Arkansas, Mitchell is one of the UFC's most promising fighters, rising through the featherweight division with a flawless record, including 15 wins (nine submissions and six decisions).

Mitchell passed his toughest exam to date at the UFC 272 event on March 5 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

But his victory was not the only notable MMA headline he generated, as he told Insider and other reporters earlier in the week that he's told to shut up and stick to sports whenever he airs his outspoken political views.

He has in the past pushed wild conspiracy theories and said last week that the US government controls him, and that the Federal Reserve is corrupt.

This caught Carlson's attention who, in his own words, asked Mitchell if he's unafraid of cancel culture.

"Well, I don't have to be worried about being fired from my job for saying what I want to say," Mitchell told him.

"There's a lot of people out there that do agree with me, but they can't say things that I get to say. You know, they think 'em, [but] they get fired from their job if they come out and say it."

Mitchell said UFC President Dana White "is pretty good with how he lets us talk and say what we want."

Carlson told Mitchell his views on war are 'in my view true'

To Carlson, Mitchell accused American political leaders of "profiting from the downfall of our country."

Echoing statements he made last week at an event Insider attended, Mitchell said: "If y'all don't see what's going on, you're blinded.

"Every day our inflation gets worse, our debt gets worse, our actual currency is controlled by a small group called the Federal Reserve that ain't Federal and it ain't a Reserve. It's insidious in nature; it's made to control.

"We have a lot of problems, and it's going to take a lot of things to fix it."

Said Carlson: "It's amazing …. it's amazing what you're saying."

Mitchell continued: "This country is made up of small businesses and people like myself who are anything but rich, you know, that work hard every day and have goals.

"That's what this whole thing is attacking. It's attacking the small business, the ma and pa shops — they're paying the consequences.

"All this COVID stuff has killed small businesses, what they're doing, they're giving bailouts to the big businesses, and [in] Arkansas they shut down businesses for three or four months. For however long it was, they wouldn't let us open up their gyms, and this and that.

"We're tired of this politics crap that's going on. Evil is what's going. Evil has took over this nation. And we ain'ts afraid of it, and we're ready to fight."

Mitchell's friends apparently fear for his safety

Because of the nature of Mitchell's opinions, and that he's using his platform as a fast-rising fighter to air them, his friends, he claims, are concerned for his wellbeing.

"They've been telling me, 'You need to load your guns up because somebody's going to try and take you out for what you're saying,'" he said.

"That's how worried people are about the state of their country. My friends think my life is could be at risk because I'm coming out here speaking truth.

"I had people say load your guns up, be ready," he continued. "That's the type of suppression and oppression that we're living in. People are worried about it."

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—Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 9, 2022