Snapshot of the Day: The WAMMA Heavyweight Belt

by Chris Nelson on Jul 5, 2008 8:08 AM EDT

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I hope Fedor likes velcro!

More pictures after the jump; read the full story of this glorious piece of hardware's creation at GoWAMMA.com.

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If this thing took off, with in a week of it having taken off there will be a World Organisation of Mixed Martial Arts (WOMMA) starting up, Then before you know it we’ve skating down a shitty slope to the cess pool that is the boxing belt system.

by Sam Cupitt on Jul 5, 2008 8:14 AM EDT reply actions

That is just what I was thinking. WAMMA is shit and its just going to make things worse.

by zeroword on Jul 5, 2008 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions

Does anyone else...

see a thought bubble with “this is the cheapest piece of crap I’ve held in 30 years?” floating above Trump’s head?

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by Brent Brookhouse on Jul 5, 2008 8:54 AM EDT reply actions

LOL@ one belt one king.

by Loot on Jul 5, 2008 9:16 AM EDT reply actions

and one ring to rule them all

by mythbuster on Jul 5, 2008 9:53 AM EDT up reply actions

WOMMA

How many more people will try to get into the MMA business, without really paying their dues.

by btsmith on Jul 5, 2008 9:35 AM EDT reply actions

God, that's ugly

It looks like the cheap replica WWE belts you’d buy for your kid.

by thetakeover on Jul 5, 2008 10:36 AM EDT reply actions

That belt looks garbage.

Kelvin Hunt

I'm like those boyz on the sidelines...cause I ain't playing...

by Tha Realness on Jul 5, 2008 11:12 AM EDT reply actions

AND SOON

that’s where it will be… after they realize no one recognizes it as a real belt!

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by imapimp08 on Jul 5, 2008 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions

WAMMA: Silly belt to match the silly name.

by pud333 on Jul 5, 2008 11:14 AM EDT reply actions

Kenny G?

The guy standing next to Donald Trump looks like a cross between Kenny G. and Sideshow bob..

by asmiley420 on Jul 5, 2008 12:40 PM EDT reply actions

LOL.

by Loot on Jul 5, 2008 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions

I’m already tired of looking at Donald Trump anywhere near MMA.

by Popetastic on Jul 5, 2008 2:10 PM EDT reply actions

or just anywhere.

It’s time for him, his hair, and his goofy kids to go back into the shadows.

by mythbuster on Jul 5, 2008 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions

I read that 150 hours of work was put in making this thing…and they slap some velcro on it? What?

by Mike Fagan on Jul 5, 2008 3:47 PM EDT reply actions

Breakdown of 150 hours work

149 hours wrangling with Keds sneaker company’s lawyers for the license to use velcro.

2 minutes designing and crafting belt

58 minutes posing with Kenny G trying to look tough.

by thetakeover on Jul 5, 2008 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions

So friggin' awful

it gets worse every time I look at it.

1) Why does it have the exact same logo both in the center and the immediate left and right of the center? Did they only buy one piece of clip art?

2) What is the red/blue picture on the far right and left? It looks like Donald Duck puffing out his chest.

3) The “one belt, one king” logo will be a tramp stamp for anyone who wears this thing.

4) The “W” looks like it was stolen from the old WWF. And the sillouettes of the knee to the head is there way of saying, “Hey, this isn’t boxing. It’s MMA!”

5) Overall, it looks like someone took five of my mother’s commemorative plates and glued them to an old weight-lifting belt.

6) You guys mock the velcro, but how many times have you seen Dana White struggle to snap the belt on a new champion before the Joe Rogan interview. This is truly WAMMA’s greatest contribution to the world of Mixed Martial Arts.