{"id":858100,"date":"2026-08-17T05:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/858100\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T05:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:28:12","slug":"dana-white-calls-incoming-prospect-bella-mir-a-one-of-one-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/858100\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White calls incoming prospect Bella Mir \u2018a one of one unicorn\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dana White is hyped to see what Bella Mir can do when she fights on the Contender Series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-contender-series-dana-white\/462490\/report-frank-mirs-daughter-bella-mir-booked-for-contender-series-on-aug-25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this August 25th.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Mir, the daughter of former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir, is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ncaa-wrestling-news-and-results\/428001\/highlights-bella-mir-wins-national-title-at-ncaa-womens-wrestling-championships\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NCAA Division I champion<\/a> and already holds a 4-0 pro MMA record with three first round submissions. She was originally pushing to enter the UFC at 19 years old, but White convinced her to delay until after going to college. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/408976\/father-knows-best-bjj-star-bella-mir-reveals-transition-to-full-time-mma-timeline-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Now she\u2019s graduated,<\/a> and that\u2019s bad news for all the women in combat sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cShe is an absolute freak of nature and incredibly special,\u201d White said at the UFC 330 post-fight press conference. \u201cAnd her goals in combat sports aren\u2019t just to be the UFC world champion. She wants to be the Zuffa boxing world champion. She wants to win an Olympic medal. She wants to be the UFC BJJ champion. And, you know, s&#8211;t, she might start slapping too. Who knows what she\u2019ll do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cBut yeah, I\u2019m excited about her. I\u2019ve been excited about her since she graduated from high school,\u201d he continued. \u201cWhen you sit down and you have dinner with Frank and his wife and Bella, they start telling Bella Mir stories, like, \u2018Where\u2019s Bella?\u2019 And they look out the window and she\u2019s got sandbags running around the cul-de-sac at like six years old. She\u2019s just built differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cShe went to college and she was in the middle of wrestling season, and she would come home for Thanksgiving or whatever, and she would compete in jiu jitsu tournaments and beat the best jiu jitsu people in the world without even training jiu jitsu, she was just wrestling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s clear that White has high hopes for Mir, who could be a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/27\/24475631\/highlights-bella-mir-fury-fc-smokes-her-opponent-with-a-nasty-hammerlock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dominant force in WMMA<\/a> at a time where the women\u2019s divisions are sorely lacking in remarkable talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cShe is an absolute standout freak of nature and a one of one unicorn,\u201d the UFC CEO declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White is hyped to see what Bella Mir can do when she fights on the Contender Series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-858100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}