Bella Mir says she is under UFC contract and would fight Mya Lesnar 'if the money's there'

Frank Mir's daughter said she signed with the UFC before her Contender Series loss and hopes to fight again in Las Vegas at the end of January.

Bella Mir has said she is already under contract with the UFC, even though her first MMA loss came on Dana White's Contender Series.

Speaking to Ariel Helwani on The Ariel Helwani Show in Las Vegas ahead of RAF 14, Mir was told she was "technically a non-UFC fighter". She replied: "Oh, no. I'm under contract with them." She added: "My boss is famous."

Asked whether that deal came before or after the Contender Series, the daughter of former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir said she signed her fighting contract before it. She said she had always been part of the UFC "through the NIL stuff" and that the contract switched over to fighting once college ended, with fights on the regional scene counting towards the next Contender Series. Asked if she would be on it, she said: "Probably."

Mir said she was "hoping end of January" for her next MMA fight, in Las Vegas so the UFC can watch, and wants "four or five" fights before the next Contender Series. "I want to try to, like, fight, like, every six weeks, starting January," she said. After RAF 14, she is set to wrestle Kennedy Blades in Abu Dhabi.

Helwani also asked whether she had met Brock Lesnar's daughter, Mya. "No, but everyone is always trying to get me to fight her. I'm, like, if the money's there, I'll do it," Mir said, adding: "I will do any weight class, too." Mya Lesnar is a shot putter, and Mir said: "I don't think she wants anything to do with MMA."

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