Alexa Grasso Presented With Custom Belt Ahead of Noche UFC Title Defense

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.”