Randy Couture's new tattoo
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by thetakeover on Mar 16, 2010 11:49 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 3 recs
WTF?
Randy got a tattoo?
He’s about the last guy I was expecting to get inked.
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And the fighters with tattoos group gains another member.
It’s easier to ask in this sport which prominent fighters don’t have tattoos. I’m not 100% sure on these, but I think Penn, the Nogs, Fedor, Anderson, Cro Cop and Hendo don’t have ink.
Junior Dos Santos
also has no tattoos.
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Forrest Griffin doesn’t as well right ?
And I think these – Matt Hughes ,Sean Sherk , Josh Barnett(?),Kongo , Carwin
Kongo has tattoo of Africa on his shoulder
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by Spinning Fat Kick on Mar 17, 2010 7:31 AM EDT up reply actions
also Carwin has an arm band and a shoulder piece now
and I think Sean Sherk has a tarantula
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by Spinning Fat Kick on Mar 17, 2010 7:32 AM EDT up reply actions
But its got flames and stuff!
The man known simply as "Christmas Cheesesteak"
by Neil Manich on Mar 17, 2010 12:39 AM EDT up reply actions
I thought they were the names of his ex wives.
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by The Pope of Chilitown on Mar 17, 2010 12:03 AM EDT up reply actions 7 recs
Proverbs 27:17-27. Latin
Some people think I am a dumb, ugly human being, but really I am a beautiful ape, with exceptional verbal skills.
Ferrum ferro acuitur. "Iron is sharpened with iron."
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"May 8th, whoop a fraggle" - Paul Daley
Something along the lines of “Iron sharpens fear”, I’d bet. Ferrum = Iron, Terro = Fear, Acuitur = Sharpens.
Probably the next Affliction shirt atrocity….
Ribbit.
Tribal fleur-de-lis and unnecessary foreign language? The Affliction of tattoos.
Fittingly, though, considering.
by Simco on Mar 17, 2010 12:23 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs
Kim.
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by Scott C. Broussard on Mar 17, 2010 12:34 AM EDT up reply actions
I am offended by that bastardization of fleur-de-lis.
Seriously, it looks atrocious. GSP’s looks so much better (is is far more appropriate).
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by Scott C. Broussard on Mar 17, 2010 12:34 AM EDT reply actions
Wow, that thing is horrible. Makes Alan Belcher’s Johnnie Cash tattoo seem understated by comparison.
by Velcro on Mar 17, 2010 12:48 AM EDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs
The tattoo itself does not look bad
I mean the shading and the line work are fantastic. But it’s a super cliche tattoo and when you start piecing together a bunch of details (the Las Vegas affliction scene) you get a reaaally crappy tattoo.
I also thought Randy was clean cut and am surprised that he got a tattoo at 47.
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The fleur-de-lis is never cliché if you’re of Franch ancestry. If Randy is, he’s probably completely removed from any cultural aspect of it. It works for GSP or any other Québécois fighter. Randy, not so much…
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by Scott C. Broussard on Mar 17, 2010 12:55 AM EDT up reply actions
I mean that it's something you pick off a wall
much like the nautical star or sparrow. The work by the artist is great, the saying I’m okay with. It just seems forced with a design to tie it together.
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by Matthew Roth on Mar 17, 2010 12:58 AM EDT up reply actions
My mom's Anne, I was raised Catholic, and I'm learning to make a roux.
See, I’m Cajun. I was born and raised in New Iberia. My ancestors’ names are on the wall of the center documenting Le Grand Dérangement. I can even trace my roots back to Nantes, France. I’m fluent in French (Parisian, though, not full Cajun), and if drunk enough, have a damn good two-step. Being raised in the suburbs, I never got to go to a boucherie, but my parents have. I’ve been to many crawfish boils and am trying to find a way to go to a courir de mardi gras. Hell, my college has a small swamp in the middle. So for me, a fleur-de-lis isn’t just something to pick off a wall, but a matter of cultural pride. I can’t stand it when other people ape it because it “looks cool”, which is why I dislike Randy’s tattoo. It’s just a gaudy, overly-ornate piece of work.
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by Scott C. Broussard on Mar 17, 2010 1:26 AM EDT up reply actions
"gaudy, overly-ornate"
And there’s no possible chance that’s a matter of cultural pride for Captain America?
I understand the cultural significance
I’m just saying that the actual artwork that the artist drew up is really good. But it also is a very common tattoo because it’s been used on coat of arms. With a last name like Couture it is very possible that he can trace his family history to France or a French held colony.
Also looks like next year I will be in New Orleans mon ami, so lets eat some crawdads.
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by Matthew Roth on Mar 17, 2010 8:29 AM EDT up reply actions
New Orleans will be awesome - best food in the world.
Yeah, I suspected he has some French blood with a name like that, but I doubt he has any close ties to the culture. I do agree the tattoo is very well done, it’s just a bad, bad design.
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by Scott C. Broussard on Mar 17, 2010 10:18 AM EDT up reply actions
Unless my sister gets into Fordham law she’s going to Tulane which means I’ll be down a lot.
And it’s usually the Cajuns that maintain French culture so I can’t hate if he doesn’t.
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by Matthew Roth on Mar 17, 2010 10:45 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
if stuff like that gets you steemed
try being irish on St Patrick’s Day.
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You have my sympathies.
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by Scott C. Broussard on Mar 17, 2010 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions
This just in
You’ll most likely get banned for fighter bashing.
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by Matthew Roth on Mar 17, 2010 1:00 AM EDT up reply actions
eh, you’re probably right.
depends on how strict the mods want to be.
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by Matthew Roth on Mar 17, 2010 1:04 AM EDT up reply actions
Holy shit, tattoos are officially a simulacrum.
His tattoo is Affliction-y! Guess where Affliction got their artistic influence from… christ.
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Sick!
I love it! Amazing artist…whoever did it.
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by cauliflower_ears on Mar 17, 2010 1:25 AM EDT reply actions
in your opinion
the quality of the work looks good, and i like the saying behind it, and the meaning.
The affliction-esqu look to the fleur de lis, im not a big fan of.
But who made you the judge of tattoos. Art is subjective
True, art is subjective.
My subjective opinion is that that tattoo is hideous.
I do agree that the saying is pretty cool though.
If art is truly subjective, then someone shitting on your doorstep is as artistic as the works of Shakespeare or The Godfather – there’s no inherent value, making them inherently equal. Is that really a claim you’re prepared to defend?
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by Scott C. Broussard on Mar 17, 2010 2:07 AM EDT up reply actions
lmao
no, i dont want to defend that, but someone defecating on my doorstep isnt art just cause the guy shitting says it is. I think you could get deeper and say maybe once you’ve decided something is art, it could be subjective.
But then again a 5 year olds drawing of someone with no body and sticks for arms and legs is obviously not better than a Michaelangelo.
There has to be SOME line though! it cant be all just briliiant or garbage, cause someone says so.
Once you draw a line separating “art” from “non-art”, then you’ve introduced a standard of objectivity. To maintain the position that it’s all subjective, art then becomes whatever you want it to be, and ideas of “good art” and “bad art” become meaningless.
Mind you, this has nothing to do with whether you like it – that’s a personal decision. If you like watching campy horror films or reading trashy romance novels, so be it. Personal preference is completely subjective, absolutely. If Randy likes his tattoo, then he likes it, and no amount to aesthetic bickering will change that.
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by Scott C. Broussard on Mar 17, 2010 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions
Then I hope you never leave any “art” on my front yard.
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by Scott C. Broussard on Mar 17, 2010 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions
just drop the scarf
Just drop the scarf. That’s all I care about Randy’s appearance.
Man. Randy must really be in a midlife crisis, When I’m 50 I don’t want to be chasing tail I want to be settled down or at least start settling down.
Wait till 50 to get a tatoo? What the hell?
I don’t know man if Randy can’t find a woman he stands being such a sweethart he is I think I’m definitley screwed. Randy is like a saint and he can’t even deal with just one woman. What the hell are us savages going to do?
Randy is the captain america... he does whatever the fuck he wants.
taking people down including females and starring movies
Randy went through all that man… some men can’t never settle down and they claim to be a free spirit.
Personally i dont mind macking at 50, but that tattoo is instant fail.
sorry captain america.
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by chopstickthugz on Mar 17, 2010 4:09 AM EDT up reply actions
This goes back to around UFC 105
I heard a conversation with Randy about him being in the film “”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expendables_(2010_film)" target="new">The Expendables"; during filming, Randy had a fake tattoo on one of his arms and had grown used to seeing it. Once filming had wrapped, he felt a little strange not seeing it there – and this was the genesis of him thinking about getting inked.
So: no mid-life crisis going on here – merely the culmination of a thought process that began about a year ago. If you want to blame anyone, blame Stallone for having Randy’s character sport some ink in the film ;)
by VikingPhotography on Mar 17, 2010 5:38 AM EDT reply actions
Something weird with the embedded link - any mod fix, plz?
by VikingPhotography on Mar 17, 2010 5:38 AM EDT up reply actions
It’s the quotation marks around the embed code – they screw around with my links, too, if I put them.
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by Scott C. Broussard on Mar 17, 2010 10:19 AM EDT up reply actions
As some have said, the work itself is well done. While i personally dont like the image itself, i dont see what the fuss is about. Its his arm, it must mean something to him. That should be enough.
by sadface on Mar 17, 2010 5:52 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Wow, kind of surprised by the amount of people that are irked just about the fact that he got a tattoo. Would expect that kind of reaction 10-20 years ago still but not today. I don’t have any of my own but I could care less if someone has a few. Getting one on the face is still considered even by tattoo enthusiasts as being extreme. Yeah I can understand people being put off when someone has full sleeves down to their wrists and more. I still think Kat Von D is hot but would be more attractive to me with less tattoos. I guess I appreciate the use of negative space in artwork. When the whole canvas is covered in color it gets distracting.
Joe Rogan's full sleeve is sweeeeet....
I’ve never heard anyone complain about it…
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I’m not complaining about the tattoo…just that I think a fleur de lis is super cliche and picked off a wall. the artist was great though. As someone who is working on two different sleeves (left arm and left leg) I have no aversion to tattoos except that they shouldn’t be picked off walls.
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by Matthew Roth on Mar 17, 2010 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Amazing line work and shading
Great job by the artist. Don’t care for the subject of the tattoo but if you think the work itself is bad you’re insane, that is an extremely well done tattoo.
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