On Saturday, Fox Sports suspended Florian for plagiarizing British writer Lee Wylie, apparently word-for-word, for Monday’s FoxSports.com piece where Florian broke down Sunday’s bantamweight title tilt between champion TJ Dillashaw and Dominick Cruz.
Florian copied, verbatim, language used in a YouTube video analyzing the technique of 1940’s boxing champ Willie Pep, which Wylie produced.
“It is vitally important that FOX Sports and FOXSports.com maintain credibility and trust with their readers, viewers and fans,” Fox Sports posted via Twitter. “FOX UFC on-air personality Kenny Florian is being suspended beginning immediately for a critical oversight in a story posted earlier this week on FOXSports.