It’s getting harder and harder to find loopholes in the world of MMA.
Affable middleweight Sam Alvey thought he had found a work around to UFC’s increasingly stringent rules on sponsorship by spray-tanning the name of sponsor Perfect Tan on his chest.
The logo was visible on the fighter as early as the weigh-ins on Friday but the promotion have claimed that they didn’t notice it until it was too late.
Alvey didn’t seem too bothered by any furore that he caused as he required just 50 seconds to knock out Daniel Kelly at UFC Adelaide last night but UFC executive Tom Wright revealed the organisation’s unhappiness about Alvey’s move at the post-fight press conference.
“Fighters definitely can’t do that,” he said. “It’s against our policy. You can put your sponsors on your shorts. You can put your sponsors on your shorts, you can put your sponsors on your banner, but you can’t put your sponsors on your body.
“We didn’t see it until before the fight,” Wright added. “We tried to do something to remove it. It was unremovable. But we’ve spoken to Sam and he understands the situation. I guarantee it won’t happen again.”
