UFC's Matt Mitrione Suspended Indefinitely For Calling Transgendered MMA Fighter Fallon Fox A 'Lying, Sick, Sociopathic, Disgusting Freak' [PHOTOS]

Fighter Matt Mitrione was suspended indefinitely from the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on Monday for his comments regarding transgendered Mixed Martial Arts fighter (MMA) Fallon Fox.

Mitrione's Fallon Fox comments were made on SB Nation's "MMA Hour," hosted by Ariel Helwani, earlier that day.

"He's chromosomally a man," Mitrione, 34, said of Fox. "He had a gender change, not a sex change. He's still a man. He was a man for 31 years. Thirty-one years. That's a couple years younger than I am. He's a man. Six years of taking performance de-enhancing drugs, you think is going to change all that? That's ridiculous. That is a lying, sick, sociopathic, disgusting freak."

A UFC spokesperson expressed the organization's disgust at Mitrione's comments in a statement to Fox Sports on Monday.

"The UFC was appalled by the transphobic comments made by heavyweight Matt Mitrione today in an interview on the 'MMA Hour,'" the statement read. "The organization finds Mr. Mitrione's comments offensive and wholly unacceptable and-as a direct result of this significant breach of the UFC's code of conduct-Mr. Mitrione's UFC contract has been suspended and the incident is being investigated."

Mitrione, as former NFL linebacker, made the Fallon Fox comments, without even being asked about the 36-year-old transgendered fighter.

"I watched one of the [Fallon Fox] fight videos and holy [expletive], I haven't seen a man beat a woman [like that] since Chris Brown beat Rihanna," Mitrione told Helwani at the end of his interview. "That's exceptional how he beats innocent, unknowing women like that... she's not a he. He's a he."

Fallon Fox has beaten two female fighters since making her MMA debut in May.

Her admission last month that she is a post-operative transgendered woman has created controversy about whether she should still be able to fight women, Fox Sports reports.

"The UFC is a friend and ally of the LGBT community and expects and requires all 450 of its athletes to treat others with dignity and respect," said the organization's statement.