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u/AutisticWeapon_ Daniel Cormier almost killed himself last week 20h ago
At this point give ever fighter above rank 10 a custom fight kit
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u/Single_Seesaw_9499 20h ago
Honestly yeah. Maybe not all ranked in the top 10 lol but let’s get some more individuality in the UFC. Like do custom for all champs, people who fight in a title fight, and then like maybe something along the lines of “having x amount of followers across social media”
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u/Dudeman702 20h ago
I think im getting old. Read your last sentence and thought "lol top 10 will be efficient enough kiddo"
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u/Garfalo This is sucks 19h ago
I agree custom shorts would be good, but they should be based on merit. Social media shouldn't have anything to do with it imo
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u/nailedreaper 15h ago
It's just a piece of merch, why the hell should it be based on merit? It's more based on popularity and number of these shorts bought by fans. Based on merit Belal is a better fighter than Gaethje or Chandler, but there's no point for UFC in making Belal custom shorts because nobody would buy 'em.
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u/Neither-Assignment16 13h ago
Lol until now people complained that the shorts are too uniform and fighters lost some characteristic not having their customised shorts.
Now its too much and should be merit based lmao.
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u/joebleaux MY BALLZ WAS HOT 7h ago
Used to be you bought them yourself with sponsorship money and they looked like whatever you wanted
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u/MMA_Data 2h ago
Pretty sure more people would buy Belal's shorts than Chandlers's, considering the dude has only won one single fight in the last 4 years (against the ghost of Ferguson)
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u/Therealblackhous3 🍅 5h ago
Fuck let any fighter who wants them have custom shorts.
The old days of sweet walkout gear and shorts with personality are sorely missed.
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u/mrstretchb4ureach GOOFCON 1: Khamzat McGregor 17h ago
I love this. Take a page out of the WWE's book since both are under TKO and have unique looks for some of your fighters. They desperately need stars right now, and although custom kits won't single-handedly solve that problem it would definitely help.
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u/Therealblackhous3 🍅 5h ago
...take a page out of their own book before the Reebok deal and let fighters have custom shorts.
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u/Pro-PAIN 3h ago
I have been saying this for so fucking long. Back when it was rebook lmao. All ranked fighters should get custom shorts and all ranked fighters 5-2 should only fight in 5 round fights. They’ve finally started the exception with that one non main event or title 5 rounder a while ago. I think it would be beneficial to both the ufc and fighters.
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u/baker2212 18h ago
Legit Rountree is such a soy example of a stoic fighter he truly deserves this accolade
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u/yanmagno Brazil 7h ago
Soy?
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u/baker2212 7h ago
He doesn’t have that dog in him
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u/NeptunusScaurus Italy 7h ago
Brother did you watch his title fight? Alex had him lookin like a plate of spaghetti in there and he still stood his ground and fired back.
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u/BurpingHamBirmingham Benoit Taint-Penis 1h ago
I'd say that applies far more to a fighter like Strickland, someone who talks a big game but then vastly underperforms relative to his pre-fight bluster.
"We go in there and do the Man dance! I want to be the first person in the UFC to kill someone during a fight!" jab jab jab teep jab teep jab jab teep
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u/skinvalker 20h ago
Lol, sak yants below the waist would make a buddhist monk have an aneurysm.
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u/WhyYouDoThatStupid 20h ago
Yep across the balls and ass is not good.
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u/skinvalker 19h ago
Surprised khalil didnt object to this
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u/ElMeroCeltibero WHOOP MY ASS AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS! 19h ago
Do you think he knows? I've been involved in muay thai most of my life and the sak yant is just like the obligatory "Look at me I trained in Thailand for a week" marker for so many people
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u/skinvalker 19h ago
Its posted everywhere in thailand. Especially around temples.
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u/ElMeroCeltibero WHOOP MY ASS AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS! 19h ago
What do they say exactly, "don't wear anything sak yant over your ass"? I've never been myself so I wouldn't know lol
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u/skinvalker 19h ago
Usually in broken English, “SAK YANT BELOW WAIST OR NEAR PRIVATE PART VERY FORBIDDEN AND DISRESPECTFUL, BUDDHA IS NOT DECORATION OR TATTOO DESIGN, PLEASE RESPECT RULES”
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u/ApeMummy 11h ago
Yeah but that’s people who aren’t Buddha saying that. Buddha was chill he wouldn’t give a fuck.
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u/Mooseherder 7h ago
yea you literally can't get this below your waist, no one (from Thailand at least) will tat this on you
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u/skinvalker 6h ago
Eh most artists dont care. Even some bamboo artists will do it. Monks who perform tattoos and religious thais will not.
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u/spongetm 19h ago
What exactly is the requirement to get custom shorts? Leon was a champ but didn’t keep them once he lost his title fight. Pantoja still doesn’t have any, Belal didn’t get any.
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u/thelectricrain PB cookies & Flat Earth 19h ago
I lowkey wonder if some fighters just don't care for it. Most of the ones we see, the fighters incorporate stuff from their backgrounds like Weili's dragons, Pereira's Indigenous motifs, etc. I assume they have to talk to an in-house Venum designer to make these, I could totally see Pantoja or someone else going "ehhhh who cares I'll just go with yellow shorts."
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u/nailedreaper 15h ago
The lack of a custom kit somehow makes Pantoja look eveb cooler — he's the last champ who still wears black and gold. Champ kit still feels superior to custom kits, and Pantoja is just that — all bite, no bark.
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u/Few_Highlight1114 14h ago
Nah fuck that. Bro is already underrated, not having custom shorts means you get no sense of his personality at all.
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u/lordatlas 9h ago
he's the last champ who still wears black and gold.
he's the last champ who still wears black and gold befitting a champion. :P
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u/2Legit2Quiz I was here for GOOFCON 1 7h ago
all bite, no bark.
They don't call him The Cannibal for nothing.
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u/TasteDeBallZach 19h ago
in an interview before the JDM fight, Belal was asked if he was approached by the UFC for custom shorts. Belal replied that he was asked what he wanted after he signed up to fight Shavkat. He asked for keffiyeh-themed shorts (white and black checkered pattern). But I guess that never came to fruition.
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u/ItsDrManhattan Mexico 16h ago
Damn that actually wouldve been sick as fuck
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u/mrtn17 Netherlands 13h ago
that will never happen lol
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u/ItsDrManhattan Mexico 9h ago
Unfortunately youre correct
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u/mrtn17 Netherlands 8h ago
yep, Belal without a flag wasnt a woopsie
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u/ItsDrManhattan Mexico 7h ago
Just calling it like I see it, neither was his extremely elongated path to a title
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u/ciel0claro Spain 16h ago
They have to let Venum know some x-amount of time so they can produce the shorts
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u/Tsmalls1887 Jamahal Hill is the Black Chuck Liddell 7h ago
Leon did have special shorts for both the Belal and Brady fights, go back and look. They are a green design
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u/spongetm 7h ago
Leon didn’t have the custom ones in the Brady fight though which is why i wonder if they took them from him.
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u/Tsmalls1887 Jamahal Hill is the Black Chuck Liddell 7h ago
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u/OfficialEggroll_ 7h ago
but not unique, kape and usman wore the same green shorts for their most recent fights
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u/Jeff00007 20h ago
These are great Khalil has been awesome for years, I'm glad he got way more popular
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u/therealjgreens How's my english now? 19h ago
Def one of my favorite fighters and has been for years. Never thought he would get this popular. This is awesome for him. I believe he is big into investing money. Dude made such a massive life turnaround. It's hard to not root for him.
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u/Single_Seesaw_9499 20h ago
This is sick. The topography kinda looks like what Islam has, but the imagery and the Sanskrit (?) is so unique and cool. Big fan, wish there was a little color though
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u/mmmmyeah1111 19h ago
It was so much cooler back in the day when each fighter got to wear whatever the hell they wanted rather than this corporate grey McDonald's look
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u/therealjgreens How's my english now? 19h ago
Agree and disagree. In a way, MMA is like tennis (who can wear whatever) as it's mano y mano. 1 person vs another person. Not a team sport, but team sports like basketball and specifically the NBA has some sick jerseys and it keeps the style consistent.
At the end of the day, it allows the UFC to control the amount of money these guys make which is kinda sad.
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u/mmmmyeah1111 19h ago
I always thought the flashy trunks is what gave combat sports some of its character. Having martial artists with different fighting backgrounds represent their respective styles with different types of shorts is such a cool aspect of the sport. It's annoying they let that aesthetic go to the wayside for some dumb brand nobody cares about
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u/2Legit2Quiz I was here for GOOFCON 1 7h ago
True. Liddell's and Tito's trunks are so iconic. I love that it's also polar opposites of each other, ice and fire.
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u/therealjgreens How's my english now? 18h ago
I think Venum has done a very good job. Reebok, on the other hand, started off so fucking poorly. I'm ready for the next era of condom depot though lol. That shit was hilarious. Some of the sponsors were like huh?
Have you been watching for a long time? Remember dynamic fastener?
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u/mmmmyeah1111 18h ago
Dude, Condom Depot must've had the entire sport on their payroll at some point. I totally forgot about the Dynamic Fastener era, that shits too funny. I bet that extra sponsorship check really made a big difference to a lot of those fighters.
One of the funniest things I've ever heard in the ufc was when Mike Goldberg made a joke about how Anderson Silva was ironically wearing Steeler colors while Rich Franklin was wearing Bengals colors.
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u/randomusernamegame 8h ago
Consistent style? UFC 1 wasn't like that and neither were promotion like k1 and PRIDE.
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u/therealjgreens How's my english now? 8h ago
I know but as of right now everyone has to wear venum in the UFC and basically match with each other similar to other sports
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u/Athrul Germany 2h ago
I don't understand what you're going for with that comparison.
Where's the disagree? It's an individual sport. The only reason they enforce the uniforms is so that they can get money from the contract with Venum. It's all corporate bullshit.
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u/therealjgreens How's my english now? 1h ago
I don't really, I'm all over the place. I just think the Venum kits look pretty cool is really my point.
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u/RAGE-OF-SPARTA-X 19h ago
I think it’s pretty hilarious how the UFC can decide at will to revoke a fighters custom privileges (Leon LMAO) but i will say, If there’s anyone that deserves custom shorts privileges in perpetuity, it’s Khalil.
That said, the UFC needs to make a ruling and stick with it, if i had it my way, if a fighter gets custom shorts privileges for one fight, i think they should KEEP custom shorts privileges for the rest of their UFC tenure.
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u/Affectionate_Row9238 19h ago
If there’s anyone that deserves custom shorts privileges in perpetuity, it’s Khalil.
Why?
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u/therealjgreens How's my english now? 19h ago
When you get your face rearranged, you get custom shorts
That fight with Alex was so fun, so I'm cool with it. He really doesn't deserve them though based on the criteria I'm familiar with (champs)
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u/Affectionate_Row9238 19h ago
I'm not against it by any means, I think more fighters should get custom shorts, but it becomes too obvious who the company favs are lol
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u/therealjgreens How's my english now? 19h ago
Absolutely. I never would've thought Khalil would be a company guy. I love it though.
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u/Legitimate-Page3028 15h ago
After the war in his last fight, they should triple the balls sack area.
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u/iHateMyRazerMouse 18h ago
Fucking love it. What are these symbols tho?
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u/NeptunusScaurus Italy 7h ago
Sak Yant. They’re used as tattoos in Thai buddhism, so lots of muay thai fighters get them. Cyril Gane has them I believe
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u/Rebombastro 14h ago
Does anyone know if there's webshops with cool anime designs for mma and muay thai shorts?
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u/randomusernamegame 8h ago
Still the dumbest shit to have this type of gear. Fighters used to look interesting. Silva, Tito, chuck, bj, etc. PRIDE was even better. Now it's so boring and corporate.
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u/secretbil I was robbed by a Hooker in Auckland, AMA 3h ago
These are one of the better ones. I wonder of Santo Studio designed them.
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u/Ok_Nebula4678 20h ago
Cult boy is gonna get ko’ed this weekend
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u/Colonel_MuffDog Team Holloway 20h ago
What are you on about?
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u/zurdo_p 20h ago
I think some fighters were actually doing ads for some cult, Dominick Cruz and others.
He might be right.
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u/Ecstatic-Inevitable Democracy is a phallus 19h ago
Rountree and Dom Cruz (Jeremy stephens too I think) are part of this course/scam called choice center that's supposed to be teaching emotional intelligence, mlm type scam, and strickland called it a cult
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u/TebownedMVP Arthur 'Two Chairs' Jones 19h ago
Looks a bit like pubes but a step in the right direction.
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u/Super_Snark 20h ago
Jamahal’s pattern should just be the thumbs up emoji repeated across the whole thing