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Should be plastic cuz they're fake.
Off topic, but this might be interesting in case you followed the Alistair Overeem weight loss news.
Reem next to 6’6” Cookie (who weighed in at 276lbs for his last fight) earlier this week in Miami:
For comparison, Sherbro Maurits next to Tariq Osaro, a day before he became interim champion at Collision 5 in June by knocking out Antonio Plazibat in the 5th round:
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Yeah Alistair lost weight, he slimmed down a lot, but he’s still looking athletic and quite muscular as far as I’m concerned, definitely not (unhealthy) skinny like everyone was saying.
Though Overeem obviously used to be far more buffed, when I trained with him in May last year:
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Today got announced that Rico Verhoeven will look to unify his heavyweight championship against interim champion Tariq “Cookie” Osaro at Collision 6 on November 4.
In GLORY the interim champion has a silver belt, instead of the traditional gold like the defending champion does, which looks like this:
That got me thinking, why wouldn’t the UFC introduce a silver interim belt aswell?
Look, here’s interim champion Justin Gaethje fighting defending champion Khabib Nurmagomedov:
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And interim champion Ciryl Gane fighting defending champion Francis Ngannou:
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Obviously we all know who’s the real champion and who’s the interim champion here, but using a silver belt for the interim champ would make the difference between both “champions” visibly clear.
Like, you’re second (silver), so there’s still work to do to become Nr. 1 (and touch gold).
Imo there needs to be a visual difference in “value” and rank between both belts.
Introducing a silver interim belt would also make it easier to understand for guys (or girls) who’re trying to get into/get an understanding of the sport, because I remember when I watched those two particular fights with friends, I had to explain to my supersuper casual friends that one guy was the interim champion with the other one being the defending champion, when then they kept asking me why the hell both guys had the same belt..
So I’m curious, do you think it would be cool/better if the UFC introduced a silver belt for interim champions?
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