According to The Daily Mail newspaper, citing lawmaker Sally Capp, local campaigners want to see "scantily clad women" banned from the tournament before the upcoming 6 October Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) night in the city of Melbourne.
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"It's 2019, do we really still need scantily clad women to wander around the middle of a fighting ring between rounds? [...] Grid girls are no longer part of Formula One, walk-on girls are no longer part of professional darts - surely it's time to move on", Capp said, cited by The Daily Mail.
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Last year, Melbourne's Formula One Grand Prix ended its 'grid girls' - who would stand beside each car on the starting grid with a sign showing the name and nationality of the competing driver.
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The issue with UFC 'girls' comes on the heels of the end of the 'ring girls', who who saw the practice shuttered at a boxing match between two Australian boxers Jeff Horn and Michael Zerafa last weekend.
Promoters of this boxing bout reportedly replaced the women with a man after coming under fire from local politicians and local women's rights lobby groups, The Daily Mail said.
