When Jeff Molina walks out to the octagon Saturday at UFC Fight Night 207, he’ll be making a statement in support of the LGBTQ community.
June is Pride Month, and with that, comes a month-long UFC campaign to support it, which includes the promotion allowing fighters to wear specially designed Venum fight kits with their name in rainbow colors.
Excited to rock the gear, Molina tweeted about it Wednesday.
Pretty sick the @ufc is letting us rep for pride month!! Get your pride gear @ufcstore 🏳️🌈👊 pic.twitter.com/nEbJZSuLWr
— Jeff Molina (@jmolina_125) June 1, 2022
Pretty sick the @ufc is letting us rep for pride month!! Get your pride gear @ufcstore 🏳️🌈👊
If you spend enough time on MMA Twitter then you know how disgusting fighters’ homophobia can get (looking at you, Sean Strickland and Jake Shields). Molina showing love for the LGBTQ community, quite frankly, is both refreshing and welcomed.
Of course, all you have to do is go through the replies on Molina’s tweet to be reminded just how vile MMA Twitter can be – especially toward gay, lesbian and transgender people.
Molina followed up his original tweet by sharing that he felt some of the hate in his DMs. But he also felt the love – albeit not what he’s looking for.
To all the dudes sliding in my DM’s I’m a straight guy but pshhh I’m flattered! ☺️
For all the homophobic dudes upset by me repping pride month on my fight kit y’all some fruit cups 🫵
— Jeff Molina (@jmolina_125) June 1, 2022
To all the dudes sliding in my DM’s I’m a straight guy but pshhh I’m flattered! ☺️
For all the homophobic dudes upset by me repping pride month on my fight kit y’all some fruit cups 🫵
That’s how you handle a situation like this, right in stride.
Molina (10-2 MMA, 2-0 UFC) will look for his 10th consecutive overall win – and third in the UFC – when he meets Zhalgas Zhumagulov in a flyweight bout Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
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