The unique UFC belt called ‘Tribe Belt #1’
that was presented to Alexa
Grasso before her defense against Valentina
Shevchenko at
#NocheUFC. Do you like the design? pic.twitter.com/ZFz7o33O8c— Sherdog (@sherdogdotcom)
September 14, 2023
Alexa
Grasso will put her
Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight title on the line
against Valentina
Shevchenko in the
Noche UFC main event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Sept.
16. Grasso became the first-ever female Mexican champion with a
massive upset win over “Bullet” in their first clash at UFC 285
earlier this year.
Grasso has now been presented with a custom “Tribe Belt No. 1” in
her first title defense on Mexican Independence Day. Custom made by
renowned The Taller Jacobo y Maria Angele, the strap is a
tribute to women icons who have conquered adversities. The belt
incorporates elements of Mixtec/Zapotec societies and the colors
utilized highlight the “duality of life.”
A press release from the Ultimate Fighting Championship further
elaborated:
“This design retakes elements of the Mexican pre-Hispanic culture
in the heart of the Mixtec/Zapotec cultures, in which values are
abstracted in a design that as a memento shows the long road to
triumph. Dexterity, courage, ability and discipline are symbolisms
through the iconography of the workshop as the house; protection,
the fish; respect, person; people, butterfly; happiness, wind;
movement and rattle; maximum power in a bid to materialize the
arduous path of a champion. There is no triumph without defeat, no
joy without sorrow. The opposites are dualities that complement
each other. The colors that accompany this belt are the
materialization of this thought, one negative of the other, both in
the same space, both being a belt; an emblem of the synergistic
relations.”