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Originally Posted by ChuckBooty
TTT. Added the classification "Die-Hard Fan". I'm a little surprised to see a lot of people get emotional and even angry at what was meant to be a light-hearted and goofy thread.
And for the record...just because you wear MMA shirts does NOT mean that your a Douchebag-Groupie. It's more about your actions than your T-Shirt. It's funny to see the people who know exactly what I'm talking about because they'll tell you that I'm dead on with my description.
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There's definitely people out there that fit the mold though. There's a guy that works the bar where I watch a lot of UFC PPVs that fits the bill. Tapout or Team Punishment shirt, obscenely large TAPOUT logo in the back window of his truck, etc. When the Rampage/Liddell fight was announced, he laughed when I said Rampage might beat Chuck and that Chuck was unstoppable. Needless to say, he was crushed (and poorer by $50) when Jackson cracked his ass.
I've also had friends that were fairly new to MMA (started watching post-TUF1) and were completely blown away when I loaned them a couple DVDs I have of older PRIDE fights (CroCop/Fedor, Silva/Rampage fights, Shogun/Rampage, etc) and ended up getting the PRIDE PPVs up until the takeover.
I think there's a difference between people who generally enjoy watching MMA and UFC fanboys who are just trying to be trendy. The latter happens in anything that is new in the mainstream. Just something all of us older fans have to accept.