UFC donating all proceeds from UF-Sea shirt sales to charity

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The UFC s latest Fight Island shirt is up for sale, but all proceeds are going to charity. In May, political satirist John Oliver took a slight jab at the UFC and company president Dana White for their planned Fight Island events. The Last Week Tonight host went on to mockingly suggest the name UF-Sea, which the company took seriously and filed a trademark for.

The UFC continues to run with Oliver s suggestion, but this time, it s also for a good cause. In a recent interview with TMZ Sports, White revealed a new batch of UF-Sea t-shirts that are now on sale for 35 each. All proceeds, he says, will go to one of Oliver s supported charities.

He was making fun of Fight Island and basically saying this idiot is going to build an island where people can fight during COVID-19 and all this stuff, White said of Oliver transcript by MMA Fighting . I m actually a John Oliver fan. So I went out and I trademarked he said you should have just called it UFC-Sea so I trademarked UFC-Sea. Then he went out and bought a trademark of ours that had lapsed and he s actually doing baby onesies that say you will submit or something like that.

My t-shirts are done. These are going to go up for sale on the UFC website, he added. They re going up this week and all proceeds to these t-shirts I did some research and John Oliver, one of his big charities is the Bob Woodruff Foundation.

The Woodruff Family Foundation mission is to ensure injured post 9 11 service members, veterans and their families are thriving long after they return home. So that s one of his big charities. So all the money from the UF-Sea shirts are going to go to one of John Oliver s charities.

UFC 251 kicks off Fight Island events this Saturday at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. Headlining the card is the welterweight title fight between Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal.

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