The UFC "Fight Kit" that was released last year, and caused a lot of controversy for making basic mistakes like spelling fighters' names wrong and generally being crazy expensive, are getting an update.
Slated to be unveiled for UFC 200, the new fight kits look very, very similar to what already exist, but with a splash of colour to make them less mindlessly boring in terms of what the fighters wear in the octagon.
This has not yet been confirmed by Reebok or the UFC, but instead has appeared after a briefing by the sportswear company earlier this month.
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"Basil green"
Initial impressions are while the green shorts are a big plus, as well as the yellow for Brazil, there is still bound to be very little interest in terms of consumers buying these for the money being asked.
This is also just an update, rather than a full new release, but we don't know how many, if any, updates we will see down the line so it could stay like this for the foreseeable future.
For comparison, here is the image that came from the official launch:
Not much change, but colour on the shorts was badly needed as watching white shorts vs black shorts in every fight was beginning to get stale already.
We imagine there will be far more interest in replica shorts than the shirts after this as well.
