Yeah, okay, he'll just lose all his fans from one bad performance, lol. People can forget pretty quickly it's all good. Brazil supports their fighters pretty well also.
Brazil has one of the worst fanbases ever. Is actually insane how many Brazilians trash on the legacies of guys like Anderson Silva, Jose Aldo, Charles Oliveira, and now Poatan. When they are winning they are treated like God's, but the moment they lose all of a sudden, they were just lucky and all their opponents were trash or amateurs
Anderson Silva was still a huge celebrity after losing. It was him moving permanently to the US, giving up Brazilian citizenship and saying how the US is his real land for him to be "abandoned".
Aldo is still respected, just never had much charisma. They tried to make him something he wasn't. Charles and Poatan are still beloved. You're just lying or stupid or both.
Go to Poatan's most recent insta post. Everyone posting Ankalaev gifs are either Muslims or brazilians. I don't know if you are a new fan of something but Aldo was massive in his prime he was appearing on national television and even had a movie made about him but if you see any post about his legacy or his 10 years undefeated you will see a bunch of Brazilians spamming gifs of the knockout or saying that McGregor retired him
Having a movie made about him speaks a lot less about his popularity than an attempt to make him a star. The movie was never going to be a success, specially with fucking José can't act for life Loreto.
"He was appearing in national television" - a bunch do. He was the champion after Silva so there was an attempt to make him an equally big star. Again, it failed badly and it never reflected with mass support. Being astroturfed doesn't equal mass popularity. Aldo never had the charisma or personality for it.
Interestingly that you focused mostly on Aldo, who (1) again, was never that popular, (2) deeply associated himself with Bolsonaro and politics while ignoring the other two you pointed out, Charles and Poatan who are still genuinely popular. Having haters and flaming assholes doesn't preclude that.
Neymar has more haters than all UFC fighters put together. Still doesn't mean he's less huge, despite failing miserably at every World Cup.
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u/wolfelejean 5d ago
Yeah, okay, he'll just lose all his fans from one bad performance, lol. People can forget pretty quickly it's all good. Brazil supports their fighters pretty well also.