UFC featherweight Bryce Mitchell used to be a non-believer but became a devout Christian in his mid-20s after dating a ‘literal witch.’
“Thug Nasty” often quotes scripture. His dedication to his faith is unwavering, but he wasn’t alway that way. The 30-year old used to be an atheist but that all changed when he found himself in a relationship with who he considered to be a ‘witch.’
“I didn’t actually come to Christ until I was like 25, 26 maybe,” Mitchell said in an interview with The MMA Guru. “I was living a life a sexual pervertedness and I started dating a witch, like a spell-casting witch. It was a literal witch.
“I didn’t believe in witchcraft, so when I seen her reading witchcraft books I would ask her, ‘Why do you read this witchcraft books?’ I always thought it was weird. Even though I was an atheist at the time, I never dabbled in witchcraft because that sh*t always freaked me out. Darkness and weird, blackness and darkness and all that weird paint on the face and the eyes and the black nails and the weird hair and all the weirdness that comes with that weird sh*t. It always freaked me out. I never dabbled in darkness,” Mitchell continued.
“She said, ‘I only do good magic. I don’t ever do bad magic. She called bad magic black magic. She said, ‘I only do white magic.’ I thought this woman is nuts, but we can still have a relationship. And then she became fully possessed one day by demons.
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“She was not speaking English. She was destroying my home. She was punching out windows. She punched out a window and her blood was all running down her arm and her shoulder. And she started killing my tomato plants. I grabbed her and threw her away from my garden and said, ‘Don’t touch my tomato plants. And I said, ‘I’m calling the law,’ and getting her out of here because she had one a lot of damage to my property at that point and she’s yelling like a crazy woman.
“She said, ‘Go ahead and call the law. I want you to call the law because when they get here I’m going to tell them that you stabbed me and I’m going to stab myself and I’m going to make it look like you stabbed me. I’ll sue you for everything. You’ll never fight in the UFC. You’ll never have a sponsorship. I’m going to take this farm from you and you’re going to rot in prison for the rest of your life you piece of sh*t. I hate you, and those are the exact words out of her mouth.”
Michell said his ex-girlfriend started ‘speaking in tongues.’ It was a turning point for the Arkansas native.
“That’s when I made up my point. I said, ‘Demons are real. I’m looking at a demon’ and then I said, ‘In the name of Jesus Christ I command all evil to leave this household.’ She stopped talking. She walked to me. She did an upside down cross and touched me with the upside down cross and she said, ‘You’ll lose every fight for the rest of your life and all of your children will die.’ And then she left. And not another word was said. And I never spoke to her again. And that was the last thing she said, but I casted her out in Jesus’ name.”
