UFC fighter reacts perfectly to backlash after sporting rainbow shorts for Pride
@ufc is letting us rep for pride month!! Get your pride gear @ufcstore ️ pic.twitter.com/nEbJZSuLWr— Jeff Molina (@jmolina_125) June 1, 2022 He included a video of his new shorts, with his name in rainbow letters.UFC has also released a Pride Month t-shirt, with proceeds going to an LGBTQ Center in Southern Nevada.Predictably, some UFC fans did not react well.
Some online said they wouldn’t be watching UFC for the duration of June while others asked: “What about Straight Month?”. Another said, “Ain’t no one wants to see those ugly ass shorts, and Molina is a bozo, he will forever be known as the gay shorts guy.”Related: MMA fighter says he turned to gay sex work to help fund trainingMolina, 24, followed it up with another tweet on June 2, saying, “To all the dudes sliding in my DM’s I’m a straight guy but pshhh I’m flattered! ☺️ For all the homophobic dudes upset by me repping pride month on my fight kit y’all some fruit cups ”On Saturday, Molina fought Zhalgas Zhumagulov in Las Vegas.
He wore the shorts with his name in rainbow colors.Molina won the fight and was asked about the shorts during a post-fight press briefing.You can watch below.Jeff Molina goes *off* about the negative comments he received for wearing UFC’s pride month shorts.“I just thought in 2022 people would be a little more open-minded and not pieces of sh*t.
But I guess I was wrong.”#UFCVegas56 | Full video: https://t.co/mOxnqIFGCb pic.twitter.com/aKeVUUeXyg— MMA Junkie (@MMAJunkie) June 5, 2022“Man, who’d have thunk it, in 2022 … Who the fuck cares, bro?” said Molina. “It’s not even about being an ally — I’m not saying I’m not — but it’s just like, just be a decent fucking person.“Just be a decent human being.
