What was up with Cody McKenzie’s shorts

MMA apparel is a thriving business, with fans anxious to grab the latest shorts and tees sported in the cage. Saturday night at UFC on FOX 9, there was a glaring exception. Cody McKenzie wore a pair of shorts so bad he left them in the locker room.

No, Cody McKenzie has not picked up the second UFC sponsorship after Jon Jones.

And if he had, it is not likely they would have outfitted him in baggy white basketball shorts, with pockets, and 907 written on it. And in the best of all worlds, someone would have pulled the price tag off. That fell to Herb Dean.

The last wardrope disaster of equivalent note was Dennis Hallman’s banana hammock that he wore after losing a bet,

That one nearly got him fired by UFC president Dana White.

This time, White blamed his own organization.

How’d you like that one?” asked White at the post-fight press conference, as transcribed by 5thround. “That was fantastic, right? What that was, that was UFC amateur hour. We have a guy backstage who polices all the things, you know, when you got a guy going out there.

First of all, if it’s not bad enough that he’s going out there with basketball shorts on, how about he’s got the price tag still on the shorts during the fight? Yeah, it was pretty embarrassing. I don’t know. That’s one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen, and it’s even weirder that we let it happen.

Maybe he was going to fight in his jeans and said, ‘Maybe I should get some shorts.’ I don’t know, man. Cody McKenzie is a strange dude, but it’s not Cody McKenzie’s fault that that happened tonight. That’s the UFC’s fault. Not to mention we’re here for a show on FOX and it’s pretty damn embarrassing.

Well, this is the first time something like this has happened. Like I said, I could not be more embarrassed by this than I am. It’s very, very embarrassing and very amateur. I don’t even know what to say. Yeah, we’re stupid. Yeah, I was pissed.

McKenzie was doubtless upset as well. He forgot his shorts in his hotel room, and his team had to run across the street and buy a pair of shorts. He is likely out his sponsor money for the shorts logos. And he lost a unanimous decision to Sam Stout.

The final word is that McKenzie, with tongue in cheek, wants the $35 cost from referee Herb Dean, who removed the tag.

thecodymckenzie @thecodymckenzie

For sale: fight shorts, now that i can’t return them thanks to herb dean. you owe me $35 bucks herb