First it was the sponsors, then it was the uniforms, now it’s the flags. Nobody may be ‘about free speech’ more than the UFC, but that mantra stops hard the moment fighters enter the Octagon.
Lately, fans may have noticed that fewer and fewer fighters are getting to walk out with their nation’s flag of choice. Whether it’s having graphics removed from broadcast profiles or Chito Vera telling digital media outlet D’ Rabona that he wouldn’t be bringing the Ecuadorian flag with him to the cage for his April 30th fight against Rob Font, or—most recently—Randy Brown shouting out Jamaica in his post fight interview because, “they didn’t let us get the flag.