Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Light Heavyweight champion and current Bellator fighter Tito Ortiz took to Twitter earlier this afternoon to defend wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan following a scandal that compelled WWE to immediately terminate his contract.
Ortiz posted a photograph on Twitter of himself with Hogan, followed by statements telling the public to "relax" about the incident:
@HulkHogan is a real America & far from a racist.Trying 2smear his name is embarrassing.We stand behind U #HulkHogan pic.twitter.com/27ffUtDSDy
— Tito Ortiz (@titoortiz) July 24, 2015
In a followup tweet, Ortiz wrote, "What ever happened to 'Sticks & stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me?