Walking the thin line between tough and dumb in MMA

After he accepted a fight in a division that he hasn’t competed in for years, and against a champion who he’ll have less than a month to prepare for, Vitor Belfort took to Twitter to mention that he thought a lot of other fighters were acting like “div…

After he accepted a fight in a division that he hasn’t competed in for years, and against a champion who he’ll have less than a month to prepare for, Vitor Belfort took to Twitter to mention that he thought a lot of other fighters were acting like “divas.”

Whether he meant Lyoto Machida and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, who had turned down the same opportunity he embraced, or whether he meant Jon Jones, who had already declined one fight with far-reaching implications, seemed unclear.

What remained perfectly clear was that Belfort, the 35-year-old “Phenom,” was anything but a diva, since he had stepped up to take what oddsmakers regard as an almost unwinnable fight.