LOLZ of the Day: MMA Classics, Recreated in MS Paint
We’d like to direct your attention to a thread on the UG titled “You’re favorite MMA moments recreated in MS PAINT!”, in which amatuer scribblers have made crude drawings of iconic moments in the sport using the beloved Windows drawing program. It’s by far the greatest thing I’ve seen all week; props to everybody who contributed. Lots more gems after the jump. If you think you can do better, e-mail your submissions to [email protected].
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The Underground Forum and MMA Fan Culture
The Underground (the UG) on mixedmartialarts.com was the centre of online MMA fandom in the 2000s, where fans, fighters and even promoters argued about fights, broke news and invented in-jokes that spread across the sport. Threads like this one, recreating famous moments in crude MS Paint drawings, were part of that culture.
The joke worked because the moments themselves were already burned into fans’ memories: a few crude lines in MS Paint were enough for anyone who had been watching to recognise the knockout, slam or submission being recreated.