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Hey guys,
I know i havent been here very long, but i've gotta voice something.
Don't get me wrong, i love the fact that MMA is getting bigger in the UK, its great for the sport and for real fans like everyone here but MMA ISNT a fashion, which is what i have noticed it becoming over the last few months.

I now feel like a poser wearing my tap out t-shirt out or in the gym as so many silly little chavs or emos or any other form of mislead youth are now running round wearing 'our' clothes.

Please don't think im some idiot moaning for no reason, but cage fighting and mma is getting enough bad press about it being barbaric at the moment, without lil johnny no job running around wearing his tapout tee thinking it makes him hard and getting into silly street scrap giving 'our' beloved sport a bad name.

Someone tell me if im being stupid, but the hours i spend in the gym, training, sparring, staying up till 3am to watch fights, studying fights to learn etc.... is me earning the right to wear my venum shorts at the gym, or my tapout hat out in the street.

Anyways i hope i haven't ranted on overly, or made a point of something that isn't there. Let me know your thoughts

Haha, feel better now that's off your chest Kenny? lol

TapouT is a good example of a brand that has well and truly gone commercial. They are out to make as much money as possible and you can't really blame them! Unfortunately as a result of that though you end of with quite a few nob jockeys wearing the brand who know very little about the sport other than it has a bit of a "hard" and "cool" image.

I suppose it could give the sport a bad name but I doubt it will. Aside from the twats there are genuine people like you and me that wear the brand who love the sport either as a fighter or fan. I don't see why genuine fans can't wear the brand. But the issue is when you get people wearing it as a statement piece.

It's a tough one to call, but might be worth going for other less commercial brands like Punishment etc?

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I know what you mean mate but...,twas ever thus. Extreme sports have had there style nicked and used for the street. Skate, surf etc. Anything seen a bit 'out there' gets stolen, Punk Rock for instance it woud have been outragious to wear some of the tshirts and jewellery you can get in Primarks now a few years ago.

I saw a bloke in Chatham the other with a TapOut top stretched over the biggest beer gut of all time, he made Tank Abbott look like an anorexic.

But then clothes do not a fighter make.

I see footy fans all over the place wearing tops can they play? They couldn't run upstairs...

yea feel much now thanks.

I suppose your right about football fans, but look at image it conjures up in your mind when you talk about them!!! I don't want our fair sport degrading to that level.
Especially when you see people like Jordans new toy running around in tapout gear being linked with that stupid essex girl. Ok fair enough he 'used' to be a cage fighter, but now hes just a limelight hugger grabbing his 15mins of fame.

I don't know if anyone else heard on Vibe FM the debate about 'cage fighting' being barbaric?

No didn't hear that debate, but I can imagine I've heard others. The British Medical Association has tried to ban boxing for years. They wanted to bring in head gear, then they wanted (get this) to reduce fights to body shots only! They don't get it. If they want to stop concussive punches they should take away gloves altogether not make them bigger with head gear that just allows harder punches and spreads the concussive effects.
I used to write on boxing and I've had this argument a hundred times. It's middle class people commenting from the outside on a working class phenomenon that they don't understand. I could rant on but It'll get very boring very quickly.

And Mr. Jordan? Lost his b*ll*cks a while back and needs to find them a bit lively. But if they're where I think they are he'll never see them again...

here here Hammer!! seems ive hit a sore spot with at least one person!
...and yet if u reduce a boxing match to bodyshots then people start getting internal injurys and bleeding!!!

The thing people don't realise is that MMA isn't a street scrap, you listen to GSP's interviews he's one of the smartest blokes the fighting world has seen.

Regarding Alex Reid, he hasnt fought in ages and hasnt won a fight in over 9years so to run around saying hes fought the best in the world in interviews is laughable.

But getting off topic a bit, i was in tescos getting my lunch earlier and like hammers example, i got a nice image of a bloke in a GSP silver star tee, strechted over a massive gut looking at b+j ice cream! and then to go outside n see some little asbo wearing a tapout hoodie holding his moped made me laugh.

Spot on 88. (we sound like a pair of grumpy b*stards by the way). But I'm sick of over-educated pussies who have never had to fight for anything try to stop working class people fight their way to a better life, be it physically, mentally or financially.

As a man once said 'How much can you know about yourself, if you've never been in a fight?'.

ASBO, Moped, TapOut hoodie, fat bloke eating a b&j (sigh) its like looking out my window! Don't live in Chatham do you? haha. Now there's one fight we'll never win.

No i live in Bedford, but its good (and really bad) to hear the problems on other peoples doorstep too.
I predict the future: -
Lil asbos going to JJB buying there own blackbelts and 'rollin' around wearing them to proove the fighters!!! LOL

Btw wasnt that great man Brad Pitt in Fight Club???

To ad to the list of great sayings - "Its only in the depth of battle, when you reach you weakest moment, than you find you deepest strength"
I think this everytime im 3rounds in getting battered! Hammer, take pride in the fact only a true fighter will know this.

Hahahaa Funny Thought Abar The Lil Asbos P**sed Meself At The Thought

Joe Rogan's thoughts on this subject...

"Some folks will want to get their posters signed by their favorite fighters, but this the age of the internet, and when it comes to fan requests the digital photograph has far surpassed the autograph. These days everyone’s phone has a camera, and everyone wants a picture of them holding their fist up standing next to Randy Couture on their facebook page. That is easily one of the weirdest and goofiest things about MMA fans; the fist-up pose with the fighter. I can't think of another sport that has a pose that the fans take when they get pictures with the athletes where they mimic the activity they enjoy watching. It's not just a few guys striking this dopey pose, either. It's the majority. I can completely understand if you're a fighter yourself, and you want an image of camaraderie with one of your sporting idols, but if you're an overweight short order cook who's never even taken a tae bo class, do the world a favor and keep your fucking fist un-balled when you're standing next to Anderson Silva.

Another unintentionally hilarious aspect of the MMA culture is the abundance of retarded macho "fight wear" T-shirts. The enormous financial success of enterprising clothing companies like "Tapout" have given birth to a rise of ham-handed imitators where each one tries to out retard the next. Images of chained up pitbulls and skulls are the norm with shiny foil letters to make sure you can clearly read the "Break my dick off in your ass – fight wear" label. At the last UFC in New Jersey I actually saw a guy in the audience with a shirt that said, "Some guys are strikers, some guys are grapplers…I'M BOTH!"

Good lord. Someone please find that poor fuck and give him a hug.

The doucebaggery isn't limited to T-shirts, either. I had one guy email me that actually wanted to sell me an pendant that was an MMA glove smothered in diamonds. The name of his company? "Hard as diamond – for those who are."

No bullshit.

Could you even imagine the near fatal levels of meathead you would have to be infected with to walk out of your house with a diamond encrusted fighting glove around your neck? On paper it doesn't even seem possible.

You would think that if you were that retarded there’s no way you would be able to scrape together the kind of money you would need to purchase such an expensive monstrosity. The only way I could see it happen is if maybe the buyer in question won the lottery, or possibly won a huge settlement in some brain damage inducing accident at the local toilet factory or something. Talk about your small target markets."

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