The after TDF there was a show called Tapout. It’s about some guys that ride in a bus and look for up and coming mixed martial arts talent. I gt that concept. What I don’t get are the costumes. There is the GI joe guy with face paint. The afro guy dressed like Don King and the tatoo guy. Back when I was a kid, guys that dressed up funny were called Green Hornet and Kato, Skipper and Gilligan or Batman and Robin. But these clowns act like they are serious. Must be the newest fad reality show as I see the local teens riving around with tapout stickers on their windows. Splain this new culture to me.
Haven’t seen it, but is it really MMA? Sounds a lot more like WWE/pro wrestling. Never seen much clowning in MMA with the exception of Sakuraba and his crew, but he had the goods to back it up. Would be an unfortunate direction for MMA for sure.
I haven’t seen it either, but it sounds like legit mixed martial arts wearing a WWF costume in hopes of boosting ratings/gaining a broader appeal…
It is a new version of the A-Team?
Nothing to explain. It’s an attempt to capture the rising interest in MMA and couple it with the existing interest in WWE. Since MMA, while brutal, doesn’t generally do the outlandish theatrical crap you see in professional wrestling, these guys seem to be trying to fill that “hole” in the American viewing public. Yet another indicator of how intelligent and thoughtful the American viewing public really is.
As if we needed another indicator after Anna Nicole’s Show (and The View).
I’m a big MMA fan but only watched one or two episodes of this show…basically, it’s unwatchable IMO.
Last night’s episode cracked me up. The featured fighter was some nut named Mike from Miami who looked like leon Spinks. He is a real fancy martial arts guy but not that good. He is fighting some little joe frazier type guy with a gut. Fancy Mike does some fancy roundhouse kick that never connects and every time, smokin joe guy pops him in the chops with a counter. fancy eventually wins but smokin joe guy makes his mark.
Last night’s episode cracked me up. The featured fighter was some nut named Mike from Miami who looked like leon Spinks. He is a real fancy martial arts guy but not that good. He is fighting some little joe frazier type guy with a gut. Fancy Mike does some fancy roundhouse kick that never connects and every time, smokin joe guy pops him in the chops with a counter. fancy eventually wins but smokin joe guy makes his mark.
No, the dude was from San Jose!
The one dude looked like he was in the midst of trying to become Maori with the facial tats. Whole think looked like MMA for MTV.
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I am proud to say I like the show…must have simple tastes, thus my tag name.
You’re right. Mike Majors or something like that. Is that face paint or tats?
face paint…
That Mike guy is going to mess with the wrong person and get himself shot sooner or later if he doesnt learn to shut his trap.
I like ultimate fighting but that Tapout reality show crew looks like a bunch of morons with stupid costumes. Someone should remind them that Halloween is over.
Every strapon who thinks he’s tough buys a tapout shirt and watches pay per view bouts. The 3 guys on that show are asstards.
The Tapout guys have been around forever. They outdate the latest MMA craze by years.
Long before MMA got big and got money, these three guys drove around the country going to every crappy little MMA, No Holds Barred, and Vale Tudo fight they visited all the crappy little halls in small towns and on Indian reservations that played host to these shows, and they hooked up up-and coming fighters with shorts and bad tee-shirts, and sold their junk on the I-net and out of the back of their car. The facepaint, afro, and tattoos were all part of the shtick, and when you saw Mask across the hall, he sure as hell stood out from the crowd. Good marketing!
Fast froward to today, and these three guys are still doing the exact same thing they always have, only now instead of selling shirts out of the back of their car, and through a tiny little e-commerce site, they’re selling them by the thousands through the local fashion mall outlet to all the beer-swilling yahoos. But they still visit all the crappy little halls and Indian reservation shows, and they still hook up the up-and-coming fighters.
and, yeah… they have a TV show now.
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Marketing.
Every strapon who thinks he’s tough buys a tapout shirt and watches pay per view bouts.
Yep.
Here you go…a picture, uh video, is worth a 1,000 words!
Link
I couldn’t watch the whole video.
When I subed in a school in a rather trashy area, I noticed (as others pointed out) that all the kids talked about was sex and fighting. No joke! I went to a poor school for about 5 years when I was a kid and just never really got it. I was also in a band for a short period, but my brother stayed with them for 4 years. They got banned from almost every bar in the state because of the fighting that would break out. Usually it revolved around someone looking at someone the wrong way. Even my coworker (who grew up in the hood) was simply shocked that I didn’t throw rocks at other kids when I was young or shoot them with BB guns.
Nope…just don’t get it. But I think these are the types of people you are talking about with the Tapout stickers and T-shirts. Gotta be a tough guy.
(having said all that, MMA is a guilty pleasure of mine. ; ^ ).
I know it gets kind of old in the middle, but watch the whole thing…it’s got a surprise ending that makes it worthwhile!
Him screaming on the ground asking for a tap was pretty amusing. ; ^ )