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We Are Still Missing The Point (RE: Reebok)

I see people commenting about the look of the Reebok gear last night.

I agree, and I get it, it looked fine. Needs lot more variety but it looked fine.

However, that isn't and never was the point, in my eyes.

It may look good on the fighters, it may look good on TV, but does it look good on their paycheck and in their bank account? How much money does a cleaner uniform look cost the fighters, in general? We still don’t really know for sure, right? Are you gonna buy the gear? Is it worth having the fighters lose money to look cleaner during fight week?

I don’t mind the look in the ring and during events. I still think they need to market "non fight kit" Reebok gear with cool logos and designs for each fighter rather than just their name so people will buy them. Just take the shirt they would have made normally or whatever they like to use as their logo/design and slap a Reebok stamp on it and boom, everyone wins.

I have a very hard time believing that many people are lining up to wear a shirt that says "MCDONALD" in big letters on the back. That isn't cool. Get creative. Create a fun/crazy/cool shirt that has no words but a stencil art of Rory's menacing stare, or, design a shirt that says Canadian Psycho instead of just his name, people will buy that. I would buy that. Slap a Reebok sticker on it. Boom, everyone wins.

The fighters deserve to make money. I would much rather have them all paid more than for them to have uniforms.

We need to know for sure how much money is being lost and/or gained from this deal for the fighters.