Is Charles Oliveira P4P the most likeable fighter?

[PulsingJones]

lovely guy

Wow... What a scumbag... Look at all those back of the head shots.

If this was Khabib or Islam it would be a huge scandal with news articles and millions of tweets

 

[FreedomCricket]

Charles, Whittaker, Gaethje, Jerome, Alex and Tai all seem like chill people.

Charles would be a superstar if he learned English.

 

[rorschach51]

Holloway and Lawler for me.

 

[rjmbrd]

the dagestani bathtub army.

Its hilarious how this is such a lucid reference.

 

[generalyum]

The Korean Zombie and Carlos Condit

 

[Joinho10]

I don't think you can beat Whittaker but Charles Oliveira is up there for sure. Just a damn shame his fanbase is full of losers spewing hate but that's nothing he can control.

 

[FriskyRandy]

are you okay?

He is not. He is an internet nerd. Annoying as fuck.

 

[FriskyRandy]

Max for me.

 

[HHJ]

I like olivera but his "fans" scurried like rats off a sinking ship when Islam beat him ever so profuciously.

 

[Conan the K-9]

Its hilarious how this is such a lucid reference.

True, and they are easy to spot in this thread too.

 

[Yutyrannus Huali]

I like Francis but he doesn't come across like he's overly likable, he has a pretty noticeable mean streak if you ask me.

How do? He always comes off as pretty humble and respectful to me. Maybe in the build up to the first Stipe fight, but he was a young and brash fighter still right before he got humbled by the more experienced Stipe. Francis never came into a fight that cocky again though.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

When I report to you all that the most likable fighter is Sakuraba, a bunch of you are gonna be like, "Oh yeah! Duh!"

 

[JakePaulMMA]

Alexa Grasso > AllView attachment 1077155

Charles could kick the shit out of her, it isn't even close...

 

[tequilaboy]

With this hair??

 

[Sensee]

I've always thought Rich Franklin is pretty cool. I may be biased since he's local and spoke with him through twitter/x.

 

[Daniel Henry]

For me it's Jon Jones. Every time he loses he becomes more likeable

 

[RichardHarrow]

Not Jones?

 

[joy2day]

He's definitely one of a small handful of the most likable fighters. Always goes balls-out in every fight. He's a great personality in the fight game.

 

[Conor Strickland]

Does BoxerMaurits count?

 

[joy2day]

Fuck no lol. Back when he fought Islam, you should've seen how many people were saying Khabib ran from him (lol) and that he was going to finish Islam. Well then, they fight, and Islam wins and makes it look easy and then it was all Oliveira's always been a front runner or that he wilts when he faces adversity, and this was all done to bring Islam down. You can expect a good fight when Do Bronx is involved but he's never been the most liked or likeable fighter and certainly not on Sherdog.

OK, but what I hear is that you didn't like the fan/media narrative around his fight with Islam; this is a pretty common narrative around contenders that really isn't about how likable Chuck is. Just about everyone was invincible until they got beat, then they were never that good. Hardly unique to Chuck.

There are lots of complaints about boring fighters (probably the biggest complaint about MMA competitors), and if everyone fought like Chuck, there would be no such complaints.