Dana White is hyped to see what Bella Mir can do when she fights on the Contender Series this August 25th.
Mir, the daughter of former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir, is an NCAA Division I champion and already holds a 4-0 pro MMA record with three first round submissions. She was originally pushing to enter the UFC at 19 years old, but White convinced her to delay until after going to college. Now she’s graduated, and that’s bad news for all the women in combat sports.
“She is an absolute freak of nature and incredibly special,” White said at the UFC 330 post-fight press conference. “And her goals in combat sports aren’t just to be the UFC world champion. She wants to be the Zuffa boxing world champion. She wants to win an Olympic medal. She wants to be the UFC BJJ champion. And, you know, s–t, she might start slapping too. Who knows what she’ll do?”
“But yeah, I’m excited about her. I’ve been excited about her since she graduated from high school,” he continued. “When you sit down and you have dinner with Frank and his wife and Bella, they start telling Bella Mir stories, like, ‘Where’s Bella?’ And they look out the window and she’s got sandbags running around the cul-de-sac at like six years old. She’s just built differently.”
“She went to college and she was in the middle of wrestling season, and she would come home for Thanksgiving or whatever, and she would compete in jiu jitsu tournaments and beat the best jiu jitsu people in the world without even training jiu jitsu, she was just wrestling.”
It’s clear that White has high hopes for Mir, who could be a new dominant force in WMMA at a time where the women’s divisions are sorely lacking in remarkable talent.
“She is an absolute standout freak of nature and a one of one unicorn,” the UFC CEO declared.