It’s pretty amazing where one throwaway press conference comment can lead, yet here we are, and we love it.
The UFC really is going to create a “Baddest Mother F*****r” belt (we’ll call it the “BMF” belt) and Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz really will fight for it in the main event of UFC 244.
UFC president Dana White confirmed to TMZ Sports that the belt is being manufactured, and will cost in the region of $50,000 to make.
“That’s a good question. I think the belt’s like 50 grand,” he said, before revealing that “The Most Electrifying Man In Sports Entertainment” himself, The Rock, is set to present the belt to the winner of the fight Nov. 2 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
“He’s gonna,” he said. “He’s taking my job. Listen, if The Rock wants to do it, The Rock gets what The Rock wants.”
The “BMF” belt idea came from Nate Diaz’s post-fight press conference comments following his victory over Anthony Pettis at UFC 241 in August, when he said his next fight would see him defending the “baddest mother [expletive] in the game belt.”
Now that imaginary belt is set to become a reality.
And while Diaz came up with the idea for the “BMF” belt, it was Masvidal who pitched the idea of The Rock presenting the strap when he tweeted the former WWE champion-turned-movie star, TV personality and all-round global superstar about the prospect of him presenting the belt.
The Rock was down for the idea and now, so it seems, White is on board, too.
Two of the UFC’s biggest crowd-pleasing fighters, a specially-created title and one of the most popular stars on the planet set to present the strap? UFC 244 is shaping up to be a lot of fun.
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