UFC: ‘Fighters definitely can’t do that.’
At UFC Fight Night 65, middleweight fighter, Sam Alvey tanned one of his sponsor logos onto his chest. Tom Wright from the UFC said “It’s against our policy.”
The UFC-Reebok uniform deal will start in July 2015. UFC fighter Sam Alvey ‘tried a work-around, but it won’t work again’, said Tom Wright, managing director of UFC Operations for Canada.
Fighters definitely can’t do that, said Tom Wright, managing director of UFC Operations for Canada. It’s against our policy. 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.
It was completely offside, he said. We’ve got a policy for that. We didn’t see it until before the fight. We tried to do something to remove it; it wasn’t able to be removed. But we’ve spoken to Sam. He understands the situation. Guarantee it won’t happen again.
