MMA Fashion Apparel Poll
by _Felix_ on Feb 9, 2010 1:11 PM EST
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If any of you recall in my recent FanPost on the Strikeforce: Miami event that I attended, I made note about the large number of people that were wearing Affliction or TapOut. The day following the event, I was considering going to a GSP/Affliction signing in Miami where you had to have made a purchase of $50 or more within the month of January, day of signing included. Due to time constraints, I was not able to make it. However had I been able to, I no doubt would have dropped the $50 on a GSP t-shirt just to have him sign (not to wear).
I don't know if that would have made me a hypocrite, since I slammed a bunch of people that were wearing Affliction and/or TapOut shirts the night prior, but to me it seems ok to wear (or just collect) one as long as it has a fighters name on it, particularly one you are a fan of. Just wearing said name brands as fashion looks pretty toolish though IMO, much like when people wearing MMA camp shirts in public when they don't even train (a lot of guys down here who don't train wear ATT & Gracie shirts).
So, my question to all you opinionated BE readers is the following:
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I think its a real shame that, in my opinion, 99% of all MMA apparel looks horrific. It does my head in that so much mma clothing is centred around skulls, and chains etc. I wish I could express my love of mma in clothing without looking like a tool. Perhaps it is thats what sells, the current generation of apparel is designed to appeal to casual mma fans who like the macho aspect of mma.
I own 2 mma t shirts. One is a very nice Team Quest shirt and the other is the Andrei Arlovski Affliction shirt. I don’t see how it matters if you train to wear MMA shirts personally
If you are a GSP fan
Go to his site and look at the GSP rush shirt (UFC 100 walkout shirt i think)
Its simple and classy. Like the RVCA stuff. I would buy it if I lived in the states/canada
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by Well Read Idiot on Feb 11, 2010 9:15 AM EST up reply actions
this
i couldn’t agree with you more. if could find a cool, simple shirt with maybe an action pose from my favorite fighter or just the logo of their camp i’d love it. all this gothic death imagery shit is so very lame. airbrush that on the hood of an el camino or a custom motorcycle, don’t put it on my t-shirt.
those tapout flag board shorts are pretty cool though, just way too expensive to be worth it.
Other – to be worn during an MMA event, similar to the rules of wearing a football jersey
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by MicahW on Feb 9, 2010 2:23 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
It’s annoying that it’s all the same crap, skulls, chains, upside down fleur de lies, or a huge TapOut logo (do they have any shirts where their logo isn’t the main focal point?).
On a related note, I find it annoying that the MMA gear for women is all pink. News flash: NOT ALL GIRLS LIKE PINK! Or it’s something more so designed for the girlfriends to wear. Rhinestones and thin straps don’t make for good training gear ever.
Disclosure: I own/have worn the shirt for my trainer and have some t-shirts for one club where I train, and a funny BJJ shirt that says “I tap arms, not veins”.
"I love it when a guy is bleeding on top of me." -- Diego Sanchez, post fight interview about his fight with Clay Guida
rofl someone said that JWOW from Jersey Shore wants to start a clothing line she describes as “affliction for women”
god help us all
by IpullguardIRL on Feb 10, 2010 10:55 AM EST up reply actions
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This is going to come off like a complete dick statement, but how many people bash affliction because they can’t afford it? Alot of people say they think it is ugly but i think that is a cover-up. I get called a tool or d-bag all the time because 90% of the things I wear is affliction. I think those ppl tend to be jealous. Im not trying to rub it in people’s face, I just believe that is the case.
I also believe you should only wear tapout, warrior wear, etc if you train. I train my ass off in the gym and it pisses me off b/c I can’t tell you how many times I ask a guy if he trained wearing one of those shirts and he tried to make up a gym, called him on it and he got pissed. The one exception is if it is a fighter sig. t-shirt. That will slide.
P.S. Not trying to be a dick.
From what you’re saying there’s not much diff from Affliction gear and Abercrombie and Fitch or Hollister gear.
P.S. I agree there’s certain stuff that should be worn if you train. My faves are the guys who buy a shirt because “it looks cool”. Once it was a fighter sig shirt and they had no idea who that person is, and got pissed at me bc I tried to talk to them about that person (pretty certain it was GSP).
"I love it when a guy is bleeding on top of me." -- Diego Sanchez, post fight interview about his fight with Clay Guida
I'm not sure which is worse...
The fact that Affliction shirts are hideously ugly or ridiculously overpriced.
That being said, why does it matter if you train or not? It’s a t-shirt. Who cares? I don’t skateboard anymore, but I still wear skate shoes.
Good point
I was solidly on the “Don’t wear if you don’t train” camp but the skate shoes comment has me re-thinking my position. I love skate shoes, the look nice and are crazy comfy so I almost only own them even though I haven’t skated in forever… besides, I’m a fan of a lot of the guys and like sporting the brand.
That said, if some of the shoes looked crazy douchey (some do) I won’t wear them even if I dig the skater (Like some of the Koston stuff from Lakai…. wtf)
I guess it depends on the circumstances. Don’t sport the shirt so you can feel justified in acting tough. Don’t wear it and try to flex because you thinking buying an expensive shirt makes you cool. I have a friend that wears “Salvation” gear from Walmart and I give him shit but I can at least respect it. He likes that stupid “Skull and Death” style but doesn’t feel the need to spend money on shirts for status (even though he could).
by Chris Barton on Feb 10, 2010 1:40 PM EST up reply actions
clothes don’t define you. just because you wear fighter shirts or skater shoes doesn’t mean you want to be one of those, it means you’re a fan or you just liked that particular article of clothing. people wear jerseys all the time, i’ve never felt like they were trying to make me believe they were professional athletes.
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by slapjaw ackrite on Feb 9, 2010 7:34 PM EST up reply actions
This is going to come off like a complete dick statement, but how many people bash affliction because they can’t afford it?
I did a quick survey and found the number who bash Affliction because they can’t afford it to be less than 1% with a margin of error of .5%.
by thekiltedwonder on Feb 10, 2010 5:08 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
i live in new york city and have one of those friends that just randomly comes up with say, a box of leather purses or jerseys or whatnot to sell. he came in to work with a stack of affliction t-shirts, we’re all mma fanatics and he couldn’t unload a single shirt for 10 bucks. i felt bad for him, but they were very very ugly.
i can’t afford those tapout flag board shorts which i love, but i couldn’t tell you if i could afford a brand new affliction shirt, cause i’ve never cared how much they cost.
You can't wear a football jersey
if you don’t play. ’Nuff said.
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by pdl on Feb 9, 2010 3:19 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
/face in hands
//tosses out 10 or so items in his closet
///weeps
This is the best argument against people who say, “Don’t train?? Don’t wear it!”.
I don’t own any MMA clothing, but only because I find the skull/chains/flames look pretty lame. However, if some fighters started coming out with some normal signature tees, I’d be all about it, and I don’t train. Just because you don’t train doesn’t mean you can’t support the sport or fighter you love. Anybody who says otherwise I’m guessing is a guy who trains and has an overinflated sense of entitlement.
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GSP, BJ and Fedor
Have some pretty decent normal looking stuff
Get on it!
'He built his whole reputation as a waffle house chef. They’ve been serving him up ham and eggs with a side of canned tomatoes' - Don Frye on Fedor Emelianenko
by Well Read Idiot on Feb 11, 2010 9:25 AM EST up reply actions
So does Shogun.
"Someone is WRONG on the internet. What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!"
-Randall Munroe
Well...
In the end, most of these companies supports fighters, either by sponsorship, or by being owned by a fighter. Now, the vast majority of these clothes ARE lame, but if it’s money in a fighters pocket, I say whoever wants to look tacky as hell can do so, and it won’t bother me none.
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I dropped $30 for a GSP shirt, and $15 for a regular tapout shirt. I train with my friend for BJJ, and kick boxing, and yet I can’t actually do a full fledged MMA career. Does that make me a tool? F*ck no
I got a free Warrior t-shirt so I guess I ue MMA-related clothing
I hate the skulls and sparkles and chains though. But not all MMA apparel looks like that. By that I mean I want that goddamn Fedor RVCA shirt
Yeah the RVCA shirts are pretty good, so are a few of the Bad Boy walkout shirts (like Demian’s at 109).
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I been wearing RVCA stuff for a while
even before they sponsored Penn. In California they have warehouse clearance sales and you can score on shorts and shirts for a good price.
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I don’t really care either way. Who the fuck am I to tell you what you should/shouldn’t wear and why? I have a shirt given to me by Huerta (pretty plain but has sentimental value) and a UFC shirt I bought when I attended my first event. I might be persuaded to buy another if they weren’t really ugly and/or seriously overpriced where I live.
In the end I just hope some of the shirt profits go to the fighters. Outside that I don’t really care what people think or what people wear.
I refuse to ever spend more than $10 for a t-shirt.
Keep firing Assholes!
I don't know what I'm talking aboot.
Yep, I’m a cheap fuck. I did manage to graduate college with $1000 in the bank and no loans with this approach though.
Keep firing Assholes!
I don't know what I'm talking aboot.
Keep that approach.
I have 4 kids in private schools and wrote a check for my daughters college because I am a cheap fuck.
The Great Recession of 09 is happening because there were not enough cheap fucks in the world.
Keep firing Assholes!
I don't know what I'm talking aboot.
Yep,
hope I didn’t sound obtuse. I was just attempting to say that when you are a cheap fuck, you can afford the things important to you.
Maybe it’s just because I’ve been out of high school for nine years, but the idea of caring a lot about when it’s ok or not ok to wear a tshirt seems ridiculous to me.
It could be argued that being embarrassed and needing validation on the internet for a hypothetical purchase is just as “toolish” as if you were to wear it in public.
hold on
if everyone tries to look like a totally badass ufc fighter, then how can everyone know that i REALLY AM a totally badass ufc fighter? i totally train ufc like, all the time. at home… with some instructional videos… that i bit torrented…
My Jersey
I have a Fedor shirt that I wear for live events and pay-per-views and I have a tan UFC shirt thats in my rotation. Its the same as my hockey jersey. Besides wearing a shirt does’nt make you a douche bag its how you act in it that might make you a douche bag.
The only MMA shirt I'll wear is from AllElbows.com
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What about a Bloodyelbow Night Crew shirt?
Keep firing Assholes!
I don't know what I'm talking aboot.
by Ubernoober on Feb 9, 2010 9:54 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
That, I would LOVE to own..
Now everyone convince Luke to have them.
by Anton Tabuena on Feb 9, 2010 10:11 PM EST up reply actions
I'd rock the hell out of one of those if they existed.
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@deowade
absolutely!!
the SBN Vikings blog, Daily Norseman, has started looking into this and if they aren’t totally cheesy I’m all about getting one. Same goes for Bloody Elbow, but even moreso. A BE t-shirt would be pretty sweet.
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@deowade
Me too. Me hates flaming-deathskulls-of-doom... I'm going to order one soon.
but I do have a fedor shirt that I hardly wear.
Scramble stuff, by Martial Farts are good looking shirts too. Here’s Esther wearing one:
Megumi Shirt:
Barnett Shirt:
by Anton Tabuena on Feb 9, 2010 10:10 PM EST up reply actions
The only thing keeping me from buying the Scramble Stuff Shirts are the prices.
The “Catch Wrestling” shirt is £27.00 which is about $42.00, and that’s not including shipping.
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@deowade
I like that Fedor shirt
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by xFenixKnightx on Feb 10, 2010 9:41 AM EST up reply actions
i’m getting that Fedor shirt; it’s so badass
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Maybe I’m in the minority here, but I wear clothing that conceals my hobbies and preferences, not clothing that announces them to the world. I don’t own any MMA fashion for the same reason I don’t put bumper stickers on my car or wear shirts with pictures of drugs I like doing, political symbols, artists and musicians I like, or my favorite porn stars on them.
I have a Tapout Shirt my wife gave me for Christmas. Its very basic. Black with a caged Tapout logo. Not too bad. Then I have GSPs walkout shirt from the Penn pwnage and an extreme Couture shirt. No dragons or anything just cool designs I liked.
Mauricio Shogun Rua #1 LHW in the World. The TRUE Champion.
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
Almost forgot, I have a UFC shirt my wife got me as well. Basic as well. Just a UFC logo and cage behind it.
Mauricio Shogun Rua #1 LHW in the World. The TRUE Champion.
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
by xFenixKnightx on Feb 10, 2010 9:51 AM EST up reply actions
"I don't wear any of that whack stuff. I sport Bugle Boy,"
LOL
I remember that. =]
Mauricio Shogun Rua #1 LHW in the World. The TRUE Champion.
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
I personally don’t own any of these shirts because i think they look stupid, and because 50 dollars is a ridiculous price for a t-shirt.
I personally don’t care what people wear. It’s the person that makes the douche, not the shirt, but I reserve the right to make fun of your shirt if you are wearing it and acting like a tool.
I don’t get the, “you need to train to wear a shirt” stuff either, it’s a t-shirt. It’s not a cycling team jersey, it’s a t-shirt. If you’re wearing gloves, you should probably be training, if you’re wearing a cycling jersey, you should be on a bike, but if you feel like paying 50 bucks to wear a billboard that other people get paid to wear, that’s your choice.
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