As ideas go, Vitor Belfort ’s latest isn’t the worst one he’s had. If anything, it’s a little too plausible, the kind of thing you could easily picture the UFC’s new owners jumping on board with, and also the kind of thing that competing organizations like Bellator have arguably already embraced. Belfort called it the “ legend league ,” though this is one of those situations where “legend” is clearly meant as a synonym for “old.” In a conversation with MMAjunkie’s Fernanda Prates, he suggested a combat sports platform for the aging and the infirm, pitting them against each other with revised rules and round times to help balance out the limitations imposed by Father Time. “Why just retire them?” Belfort (25-13 MMA, 14-9 UFC) said of older fighters. “Bring them back.
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