The UFC president revealed on Tuesday that Mitchell will compete against Andre Fili in the co-main event of this Saturday’s UFC Vegas 12 event in Las Vegas and will have his brand new camo shorts on in the octagon.
.@ThugnastyMMA FINALLY got his camo shorts. He’ll be fighting in them this Saturday on @espn+ pic.twitter.com/8AlMqYVdsk
— danawhite (@danawhite) October 27, 2020
In an April 2019 interview with MMA Fighting, Mitchell discussed Reebok sending him some mock ups following his unanimous decision win over Bobby Moffett in a month prior. At the end of the day, “Thug Nasty” didn’t necessarily need to have camo shorts to compete, but it was still something that was very important to him. — danawhite (@danawhite) October 27, 2020
“I don’t care, I’ll fight in anything,” Mitchell said. “I’ll fight bare-ass if I got to fight bare-ass, but I mean I really do want to fight in camo shorts so I feel I at least have the right to say I want to fight in ‘em. So if I didn’t get ‘em, I’d still fight, but it is a big deal to me. It means a lot to me.”
Mitchell has won all four of his UFC bouts, but it was his recent pair of victories that really opened people’s eyes to earn him a spot in the top-15 in a loaded UFC featherweight division. In December 2019, the 26-year-old defeated Matt Sayles with only the second twister submission in UFC history. The Arkansas native kicked off his 2020 campaign with a one-sided unanimous decision win over Charles Rosa at UFC 249.
He’ll face a 15-fight UFC veteran in Fili, who will be looking to take his place in the rankings on Saturday night. “Touchy” enters the bout victorious in three of four, which includes a very close decision loss to Sodiq Yusuff at UFC 246. In his most recent bout, Fili defeated Charles Jourdain in a highly entertaining bout at June’s UFC on ESPN 10 event.
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