PHOTOS | Check out the brand new UFC Legacy Belt

By Tom Taylor - January 18, 2019

Late last year, the UFC began teasing a new belt design, but unfortunately, the chaos that surrounded the UFC 232 card delayed the promotion’s plan to reveal this new title belt.

UFC Legacy Belt

On Friday morning, just a day ahead of the promotion’s first card on ESPN+, the new belt was finally revealed. The belt will gets it’s official reveal during tomorrow nights’ card.

See some images of this new “UFC Legacy Belt” below.

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“Here are some images of the new UFC championship belt that will be unveiled tomorrow night,” TSN Aaron Bronsteter reported on Twitter. “The UFC Legacy Championship Belt will be uniquely customized for each individual champion by the athlete’s country, weight class, and number of title defenses and weighs 10.45 lbs.”

This new belt features the flags of the first eight countries to produce UFC champions: Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, The Netherlands, Poland, England and the United States.

Tomorrow night’s UFC card will be headlined by a flyweight title fight between divisional champion Henry Cejudo and slimmed-down bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw. Which of these men do you think will walk out wearing a brand new UFC Legacy Belt?

What do you think of the new UFC Legacy Belt?

This article first appeared on BJPENN.COM on 1/18/2019. 

This article appeared first on BJPENN.COM

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