{"id":290207,"date":"2023-09-10T09:34:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T09:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=290207"},"modified":"2023-09-10T09:34:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T09:34:47","slug":"fighter-lets-fly-with-x-rated-homophobic-slur-against-crowd-at-ufc-293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/mma\/fighter-lets-fly-with-x-rated-homophobic-slur-against-crowd-at-ufc-293\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighter lets fly with X-rated homophobic slur against crowd at UFC 293"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>UFC 293 fighter lets fly with X-rated homophobic slur against Aussie crowd after winning fight &#8211; and gets bombarded with boos and beer by furious fans<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Charles Radtke attacked the crowd after win in Sydney\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>American beat Mike Mathetha by unanimous decision\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Another fighter on the card also used the awful slur\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Charles Radtke received a chorus of abuse and had beer thrown at him after launching into a shocking homophobic outburst directed at the crowd when he won his fight at UFC 293 in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>The American came out on top in a narrow, unanimous points win over Mike Mathetha in a lacklustre bout that saw both men booed by spectators due to the lack of striking and all-round action.<\/p>\n<p>Radtke voiced his anger with the fans as he was interviewed by former heavyweight champion turned commentator Daniel Cormier just after the decision was announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Charles, how good did it feel to get your first UFC victory?&#8217; Cormier asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It felt great. And so f**k all you f*****s up in the f**king crowd. Come down here and get some, you p***y-a** b**ch,&#8217; Radtke replied.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/10\/09\/75261343-12501023-image-a-89_1694333198338.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Charles Radtke became public enemy No.1 at Sydney&#8217;s Qudos Bank Arena when he verbally attacked the crowd after recording his first win in the UFC\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/10\/09\/75261341-12501023-image-a-90_1694333282031.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The crowd weren&#8217;t wild about the lack of stand-up striking action in his fight with Mathetha &#8211; and the American let them have it as soon as he got on the microphone\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He then leaned over and yelled &#8216;f**k you&#8217; into the microphone as Cormier pulled it away from him to stop the tirade in its tracks, and stuck his middle fingers up at the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Radtke was hustled backstage as soon as the interview was over as he was hit with loud and sustained booing and had a beer thrown at him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UFC fighter Derek Brunson slammed Radtke for his remarks in a post to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Yeah Radtke&#8217;s about to be doing community service at the LGBTQ for the next 6 months that boy lost his mind during his interview,&#8217; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The American later posted an apology for his slurs on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;d like [to] sincerely apologize to UFC fans across the world and to the fans here in Sydney for the remarks I made post fight today,&#8217; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Those comments are not a reflection of who I am and they don&#8217;t belong on a platform as great as what the UFC has provided me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My emotions were running high.. It&#8217;s hard to explain the way your mind works when you&#8217;re locked in a cage to fight another man with your entire livelihood and dreams on the line.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/10\/09\/75261339-12501023-image-a-91_1694333488814.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The fighter known as &#8216;Chuck Buffalo&#8217; later posted an apology for his outburst on social media<\/p>\n<p>Radtke wasn&#8217;t alone in broadcasting a homophobic slur during Sunday&#8217;s action in Sydney, however.<\/p>\n<p>Manel Kape defeated Felipe dos Santos by unanimous decision and spat out an awful insult when he tore into rival fighter Kai Kara-France in his post-bout interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;All these numbers two, three, four, they not accept to fight me because they&#8217;re f**king scared,&#8217; he said, referring to world-ranked opponents in his division.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was supposed to fight Kai Kara. You motherf**ker, you weren&#8217;t here, you show up, you piece of s**t,&#8217; he said to the New Zealander, who was in the crowd and responded by showing Kape both middle fingers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/10\/09\/75261613-12501023-image-a-92_1694333613050.jpg\" height=\"420\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Angolan flyweight Manel Kape also used a homophobic slur as he heaped insults on his Kiwi rival Kai Kara-France<\/p>\n<p>After threatening to spar Kara-France in the Auckland gym where he trains if he doesn&#8217;t fight him next, the Angolan flyweight crossed the line: &#8216;And no-one, no-one is going to do anything, you know why? All your teammates is a bunch of f****ts.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Cormier was forced to pull the microphone away to cut the interview short before Kape could unleash more offence.<\/p>\n<p>He then directed his vitriol at Israel Adesanya after the New Zealander&#8217;s stunning loss to new middleweight champion Sean Strickland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kape &#8211; who had a fiery clash with Adesanya when he insulted his friend Kara-France at the pre-tournament press conference &#8211; was asked what he thought of the incredible upset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You know, karma is a b***h,&#8217; he replied.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/mma\/article-12501023\/UFC-293-Charles-Radtke-homophobic-slur-crowd-Manel-Kape.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 293 fighter lets fly with X-rated homophobic slur against Aussie crowd after winning fight &#8211; and gets bombarded with boos and beer by furious fans Charles Radtke attacked the crowd after win in Sydney\u00a0 American beat Mike Mathetha by unanimous decision\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fighter lets fly with X-rated homophobic slur against crowd at UFC 293 - Sports-Life-News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/mma\/fighter-lets-fly-with-x-rated-homophobic-slur-against-crowd-at-ufc-293\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fighter lets fly with X-rated homophobic slur against crowd at UFC 293 - Sports-Life-News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UFC 293 fighter lets fly with X-rated homophobic slur against Aussie crowd after winning fight &#8211; 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