I always see the biggest turds wearing tapout shirts and they dont know anything about the sport at all. I have stopped buying tapout shirts because of this and am quite annoyed by mma becoming mainstream, because along with it becoming mainstream not many people are becoming educated. They are just buying tapout shirts.
I was at a party(more of a social gathering) and some guy saw my ToeZup shirt and said he loved it and where I got it and everything. The he goes, I really want to get a TapouT shirt. I couldn't help but to say "You would".
Haha, I didn't notice there was a tapout discussion in the page before this, good stuff.
I live in western Pennsylvania so I'm basically surrounded by hicks. It's always the guys with the white tanktops, blue jeans, with a blonde goatee and the barbwire tattoo that shop at Spencers along with their skank girlfriend that wear Tapout hats. Spencers and Hott Topic is where they get their Tapout/UFC gear around here.
i had no idea this thread would be so popular lol. i love when people say it's fixed like wrestling. and people that think any fighter that was on tuf is automatically going to be a god in the big show.
"when guys come up to me at a concert (while wearing an affliction shirt) and ask me if I fight" to which I reply it says Black Sabbath on it not Chuck Liddell.
-Hence I have given up wearing Afflcition since everyone and their mother wears it........used to be cool before it became mainstream.
on the flipside of the coin I wear a St. Louis Cardinals shirt and nobody asks me if I play for the Cardinals:confused03:
I also rarely tell people I'm in to MMA because they don't understand it. If I have to talk to them about MMA, which I usually try to avoid, I refer to it as "fighting" because I think that's a little better than "UFC".
-Whenever they ask me "what's so great about that Shogun guy" and I have to teach them a damn lesson about the man
-When I asked my friend about MMA and he said "uhhh yeah I like Chuck" and I said "he's fighting Wanderlei from Pride in a little while." He gave me a confused look and said "who from where?!"
-About the Tapout ordeal I saw a guy in a train station wearing a Tapout shirt....and he was fat. Nuff' said.
-Whenever I ask my friends to face me in a submission wrestling match and all they damn do is a headlock
-Not really about being a casual fan, but I was gonna get into a fight with a black kid and I hit him with a Muay Thai roundhouse kick and he said the following lines "kicking...that's so white" and "there's no kicking in fistfighting!"
this thread made me laugh soooo hard because they now sell tapout stuff at Champs and Pac Sun and a ton of skater dudes buy them and think they look cool and shit and i hate when fat people wear them or affliction shirts. its so dumb. and the casual fan jokes are funny too, but there really are too many silvas haha but the true mma fan can easily distinguish btw. them:thumb02:
Yeah, thats great for Tapout as a clothing company but it sucks because you have ***** skater kids walking around with tapout shirts on. Funny and sad at the same time.
How about how Jet Li could beat any mma fighter at his weight class(actual conversation i had with a guy at basic training) also apparently there are guys who like train in the mountains their whole lives and have punches and karate chops and stuff that can KO you or kill you instantly and could beat mma fighters. ridiculous. The fact that non-combat style martial arts still have this kind of stigma is ridiculous to me.
Well, we don't have those kinds of problems here in Spain, because very few people know what MMA is, and I'm making sure that my friends are getting educated in the sport (well, to the extent of my own knowledge which isn't much), so I usually can have an intelligent cnversation about MMA with the people I know .
one thing that really gets me mad is when I say I do bjj and I ask do you know what that is?
To which people always respond to "yea its like karate right"
-they look at you like your an alien when you talk about anderson silva vs roy jones
-when i showed some pride footage with stomps they say "thats dirty fighting" or "thats not real fighting let him up!"
-they still think chuck liddell is world champion
when you are watching fights at b-dubs or wherever and the main event is over and all the freaking retards leave even though they show pre-lims afterward, because they dont care about mma, just seeing Brock Lesnar or whatever side show they came to watch fight.
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