mo was booed when he fought both kerr and whitehead and they booed him before the mousasi fight even began… mma fans hate mo.

So.. he’s a younger Randleman?

Can you point me toward his backstory please?

This deserves a rec, so many sites had Gegard winning when we have NEVER SEEN HIM FIGHT A WRESTLER.

I don’t care how many UFC cast offs you beat, until you actually snuff a top notch American wrestler in a fight I will be picking against you.

I saw this being a repeat of Cerrone/Henderson and Marquardt/Sonnen, today’s wrestlers are learning how to neutralize the dangerous kickboxer/bjj fighters out there.

Its an old and tired saying but most mma fight fans seem to forget, regardless of hype: Styles make fights.

No one who gasses in the second of five rounds should be proud.

People been hating long before that happened.

name one other fighter thats been able to GNP Mousasi with more success?

…but they also gassed really early, particularly Mo, which made the fight sloppier and pretty one-dimensional. I think if both guys had been in better shape, the fight would have been a lot more dynamic.

There’s always a difference between the way that athletes who play a game see the sport and the way the fans view it. It comes across every time an ESPN talking head ex-player gets grouchy about something and declares “If you haven’t played, then you don’t know and can’t comment!” The usual (reasoned) response is “Well, just because I haven’t played doesn’t mean I don’t understand the game; look at coaches – most of them never played or weren’t good enough to play at the highest level.” And that’s correct. Anyone can observe and make intelligent comments on a sport or fight. I think that often, though, this response misses the motivating factor behind the original “If you haven’t played…” comment: what the athlete ISN’T saying is that they have been in that situation and it doesn’t feel good and doesn’t seem “fair”.

I make that point to talk about the distinction between booing in MMA and in other sports. In football, if you are a Miami Dolphin, you expect to be booed loudly and repeatedly when your team visits the Jets or Bills. But fighters aren’t usually playing “home” or “away” so the booing always feels (and often is intended to be) personal, if only as a personal critique or statement of dissatisfaction. Sure, I get pissed off like anyone else by the drunken fans who boo as soon as a fight is anything other than an exchange of overhand rights; but by the same token, I understand that some fights, while technically proficient, are not what the fans expected and can be downright disappointing.

I get the sense that what Askren is trying to say-without-saying-it is the “I’ve been there and I know how hard Mo was working, and being booed when you’re giving your all AND winning doesn’t feel good”, kinda like the talk-head ex-athletes often say. But at the same time, if I COULD wrestle like those guys, I’d probably be fighting; then my perspective would be different. I’m not much of an athlete though – in fact, I regularly lose fights to my furniture while walking about the house – so I HAVE to be a spectator. And as a spectator, I watch to be entertained. Sure, my standard of entertainment includes being impressed by GSP’s dominance of Hardy; not everyone’s does because we all have different aesthetic standards. But there’s no point in Askren wishing I or anyone else could see anything from his perspective. We can’t. We can only be fans, and sometimes when fans are upset or unentertained, they will make their feelings known.

Lots of athletes put a lot of work into what they do yet still have to deal with the fans, it’s just part of sports. Boo’d or not they are getting paid for their effort. Besides it could always be worse, they could be throwing batteries at them instead of just booing.

Philadelphia’s list of embarrassing moments is getting lengthy.

On Nov. 10, 1997, a fan shot a flare gun across the field into the stands during a nationally televised Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers. Fans pelted national TV broadcasters with snowballs during a Cowboys-Eagles game in 1989. Santa Claus was booed and pelted with snowballs during a game between the Eagles and Minnesota in 1968.

This year, fans threw batteries at St. Louis Cardinals outfielder J.D. Drew, expressing their anger that he didn’t sign with the Phillies after they drafted him in 1997.

No one is safe. Mike Schmidt, one of the best third basemen in baseball history, was booed for much of his career with the Phillies.

“Ron Jaworski told me one time that he had completed like 14 passes in a row, and on the 15th one he had an incompletion and they booed him,” said Randall Cunningham, the Eagles’ star quarterback from 1985-95.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/news/1999/10/11/philly_fans_ap/