Affliction folds

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by TYEster

It's just for as much as people talk shit about it, I have yet to ever have anyone say it to my face aka in person, while I'm wearing a shirt.

On a local rock station, they have a guy from the morning show go around to Atlanta's "hippist" clubs and interview people about the clothes they are wearing and how much they cost while they are standing in line. They then have 2 callers call in and guess how much their outfit costs. They call it "Buy-Curious".

Anyways they'll go on to say "Affliction/Ed Hardy shirt, True Religion jeans, k-swiss, etc, etc." Then they add up the total cost. At the end the radio announcer says to them to "repeat after me, for $500 you too, can dress like a douchebag". People usually just say "Fuck you" or turn the phrase to say they are dressed like a pimp.

[TYEster]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

On a local rock station, they have a guy from the morning show go around to Atlanta's "hippist" clubs and interview people about the clothes they are wearing and how much they cost while they are standing in line. They then have 2 callers call in and guess how much their outfit costs. They call it "Buy-Curious".

Anyways they'll go on to say "Affliction/Ed Hardy shirt, True Religion jeans, k-swiss, etc, etc." Then they add up the total cost. At the end the radio announcer says to them to "repeat after me, for $500 you too, can dress like a douchebag". People usually just say "Fuck you" or turn the phrase to say they are dressed like a pimp.

Ya sadly, I don't buy my clothes because its the "in" or hip thing. Nor do I go to clubs. I buy because I'm slightly muscular and I find their cut/fit fits me better than your standard cotton Haynes T.

Plus as I said before, I support a few of their fighters. How much they see from it, I'm not sure, but I know some of it goes to Randy Couture for creating the company, and I support him too.

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by TYEster

Ya sadly, I don't buy my clothes because its the "in" or hip thing. Nor do I go to clubs. I buy because I'm slightly muscular and I find their cut/fit fits me better than your standard cotton Haynes T.

That's understandable. One time I almost bought an Ed Hardy T-shirt from Marshalls before I even knew what Ed Hardy was. I thought it was a Motley Crue concert T-shirt at first.

But I'm similar to you in a muscular build and it does suck trying to find clothes. I think Hollister considers a "Man Build" to be a bird chest and 26" waist.

Oh yeah, on that show thing they started asking these people what they do for a living. Half are car washers, oil changers or work at Pep Boys.

[TYEster]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

That's understandable.

But I'm similar to you in a muscular build and it does suck trying to find clothes. I think Hollister considers a "Man Build" to be a bird chest and 26" waist.

This!

I think it's more leading to the pussification of America. They think the "men" are smaller too.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

But I'm similar to you in a muscular build and it does suck trying to find clothes. I think Hollister considers a "Man Build" to be a bird chest and 26" waist.

IMO, the real problem with clothes these days is that it's made for fat people. The waist/stomach area of shirts is way too big. If you have a muscular or even just an athletic build, you need special tapered shirts, otherwise there's too much material tucked into your pants and it looks fucking stupid.

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

IMO, the real problem with clothes these days is that it's made for fat people. The waist/stomach area of shirts is way too big. If you have a muscular or even just an athletic build, you need special tapered shirts, otherwise there's too much material tucked into your pants and it looks fucking stupid.

I think it's one end of the spectrum to the other.

If you buy clothes geared towards older people from stores where adults shop such as Walmart, Target, Kohls, etc they assume they are fat. But if the clothing is geared towards younger people such as SoCal, Hollister, A&F, Ed Hardy, etc they assume they weigh about 150lbs.

Best fitting shirts/clothes I ever had were $7 clothes from Steve and Berrys. Well the jeans weren't the greatest but for $7 you couldn't complain. Their shirts fit damn good. Too bad they closed down. Guess the Chinese kids making them went on strike or something.

[Corey]

So Fedor ends up signing with Strikeforce. What a complete fucking waste. He'll never face stiff competition, continue with an unbeaten streak that will become more and more meaningless, and probably end up bankrupting Strikeforce. So fucking dumb.

[Corey]

Fedor and M-1 Global wanted their Co-Promotion shit, and they got it. In doing so, they sacrificed any hope of name recognition or competition. You can make the argument that there are decent fighters in Strikeforce, but they're just decent. This doesn't seem to be anything more than going for the easy money. To be considered the best, you need to continually fight the best. Fedor was the best, but he's been fighting washed up has-beens or never-will-bes since Pride went under. StrikeForce has a heavyweight title fight coming up soon. Is it the main card being used to pull in potential fans and to be the face of the event? No. That honor falls to Carano vs Cyborg. And now he's in another small runner up production with little recognition. I'll bet, among the general populace (not MMA followers), Gina Carano has more name recognition and pull than Fedor. Maybe I'm wrong, and the world is clamoring for a Fedor/Sobral rematch, or the power card of Fedor/Overeem, but I doubt it. I think it's much more likely that StrikeForce will bankrupt themselves trying to get Fedor to live up to the hype that Affliction failed to produce. Fedor in the US MMA will continue to be a name that less and less people give a shit about because he'll never fight anyone more than the B-leaguers.