{"id":340425,"date":"2020-02-07T06:47:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=340425"},"modified":"2020-02-07T06:47:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:47:38","slug":"ufc-to-air-kobe-bryant-tribute-during-ufc-247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-to-air-kobe-bryant-tribute-during-ufc-247\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC to air Kobe Bryant tribute during UFC 247"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC will pay tribute to the late, great Kobe Bryant during Saturday&#8217;s UFC 247 broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>UFC President Dana White divulged the company&#8217;s plans to honor the basketball legend during an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iqvzx-Otg18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kobe Bryant Was UFC Investor and Will Be Honored at UFC 247, Says Dana White | TMZ Sports\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iqvzx-Otg18?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first fight since it happened and, yes, we\u2019re going to do something for Kobe,\u201d White said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2020\/02\/kobe-bryant-tribute-planned-ufc-247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>White also revealed that Bryant was one of several recent celebrity investors in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at Kobe the basketball player, right? Then the guy won an Oscar, and all the other things that this guy has accomplished in his life \u2013 also he was one of the big investors in Body Armor, the company that\u2019s a sponsor of the UFC,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was also an investor in the UFC, and the UFC killed it last year. I mean 2019, when I say 2019 was our best year \u2013 others years, 2019\u2019s through the roof. It was massive. So the owners got a distribution, and Kobe got a distribution from the UFC, the Wednesday before the incident, and he was so pumped up and so excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and several others, in Calabasas, California late last month. This tragedy left the combat sports world reeling, and many still haven&#8217;t digested the news.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Bryant&#8217;s passing, many UFC fighters offered their own tributes to the legend, including former champions Conor McGregor and Daniel Cormier.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in to the UFC 247 broadcast this Saturday to see the UFC&#8217;s tribute to the legendary LA Laker Kobe Bryant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 2\/7\/2020.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC will pay tribute to the late, great Kobe Bryant during Saturday&#8217;s UFC 247 broadcast. UFC President Dana White divulged the company&#8217;s plans to honor the basketball legend during an interview with TMZ. \u201cThis is the first fight since it happened and, yes, we\u2019re going to do something for Kobe,\u201d White said (via MMA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":340428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10112,65614,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UFC to air Kobe Bryant tribute during UFC 247 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dana White reveals that the UFC will pay tribute to late, great NBA legend Kobe Bryant during Saturday&#039;s UFC 247 broadcast.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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