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Chael Sonnen 'attacked' by Brazilian fan at TUF 17 Finale

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UFC Quick Quote: Chael Sonnen 'attacked' by Brazilian fan at TUF 17 Finale
By Thomas Myers on Apr 18 2013, 9:31p @TommyMyers 25


When Chael Sonnen was a little kid, he'd go outside with his friends and talk about the latest in technology, medicine, gaming and American ingenuity, while Anderson Silva and the Brazilian kids sat outside and played in the mud.


"[Chael's trash talk] exploded with the Anderson Silva fight, when he started ripping him and Brazil. Last weekend, I don't know if any of you guys saw or heard about this, but he was there, shaking hands with everybody and everything, and this guy says, 'Hey Chael! Chael! C'mon over here.' Chael goes over there and the guy starts swinging on him, tried to punch him. [Security] bundled the guy up and dragged him out and he's saying, '**** you! You are a piece of shit! I'm from Brazil' and all this other stuff. The guy attacked him at The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 17 Finale last Saturday. It was a bad move [for that guy] -- they didn't take him out of there politely. He got bundled and dragged over every stair on the way out [laughs]."
-- Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White, during his UFC on Fox 7 pre-event media scrum (watch it here), detailed an ugly off-camera incident at The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 17 Finale, which took place at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, this past Saturday night (April 13, 2013). White revealed that Chael Sonnen, who was on the scene as coach for TUF 17 finalists Kevin Gastelum and Uriah Hall, as well as doing some awkward promotional work to hype his upcoming 205-pound title fight with UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones at UFC 159, was involved in an altercation with an angry Brazilian mixed martial arts (MMA) fan. One who probably didn't care for Sonnen's disparaging comments about his homeland in the build up to his rematch with Anderson Silva at UFC 148, even if "The American Gangster" was trying to build beef and put butts in seats. Indeed, he often crossed the line, especially when he suggested that he'd "pat Silva's wife on the ass and have her make him a steak." Sonnen didn't stop at Silva, targeting Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Wanderlei Silva, among others, which prompted irate responses from both Brazilian legends here and here. In fact, "Big Nog" at one point suggested that Sonnen would never come to Brazil because "the people would kill him in the street." He wasn't lying, considering that Sonnen apparently isn't even safe in "Sin City."

http://www.mmamania.com/2013/4/18/4...en-attacked-brazilian-fan-crowd-tuf-17-finale
 
#3 ·
Hey don't let one bad apple spoil the bunch. Brazilian fans are cool, very passionate and one of the biggest supporters of MMA/UFC.

On the other hand in " like water" you can clearly see a bunch of Americans hating on Anderson because he's not American.
 
#5 ·
but they never attacked anderson and said IM AMERICAN DISRESPECTED ME,i would like to give this fan a black eye as well for being such a douche i hope the security roughed him up bad. Also that fight was over a year ago so the timing couldn't have been any worse
 
#8 ·
but they never attacked anderson and said IM AMERICAN DISRESPECTED ME,i would like to give this fan a black eye as well for being such a douche i hope the security roughed him up bad. Also that fight was over a year ago so the timing couldn't have been any worse
lol yes but you gotta be a fool to hit anderson,anderson would probably knock out a stupid fan before a sucker punch hits. Morale of the story there are stupid fans everywhere, this guy is just one of them. Even athletes themselves are guilty of being idiots sometimes in every sports such as attacking each other. There are always incidents

-Remember the fight in Detroit the Ron artest incident
-Rudy Franedez got attack recently in a european basketball league
- Tie Domi (hockey player) beating up a fan.
 
#6 ·
it's one dude, there are stupid people everywhere. He probably got hurt much worse than he did to Chael, knowing security guards they jump at the chance to impose their authority to the maximum extent. I'd be surprised if the dude got away without being slammed into something
 
#7 ·
Im aware that there are stupid people everywhere but that doesn't mean it should be excused for any reason, i bet there are fans probably defending the brazillian right now. I would be happy to learn that he did get roughed up for being a fool.
 
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Online i see people attacking Americans and the people living there all the time. For instance on facebook i am friends with some HUMOR facebook pages that post funny pics. One of the pictures was of a guy getting plastic surgery implants to get 6 pack abs. The VERY FIRST comment on the picture is "For fat lazy slob Americans who cant do it themselves" followed by 150+ likes and 50 something comments mostly insulting the U.S.A. The only people who defended the US were the people who lived there.

Iv seen this scenario a 1000x whether in Video Games, Forums, youtube, facebook, etc etc. Yet not a single person that isnt from the US ever steps up and says anything against it. Like its perfectly acceptable to insult people from the united states.

But when anything is said against any other country then you are harassed by half the internet community and made out to be some racist piece of sht.

I have always been curious why this is.
 
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There a big difference between some random internet dude insulting America and somebody like Anderson Silva or Chael Sonnen doing it. If Silva spoke about the US and Americans in general the way Sonnen spoke about Brazil, it would not be ignored or considered acceptable. Of that I have no doubt.
 
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