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From the moment Bruce Buffer announced that Sean Sherk had won a split decision over Evan Dunham at UFC 119 last Saturday night, the experienced MMA observer could have written the script for what was about to happen next.
Sherk, exhausted after three exciting rounds of fighting, walked over to where Joe Rogan was waiting to interview him. Only before he could even hear the end of the first question, in came the flood of boos, drowning everything else out even as Rogan tried in vain to talk some sense into an angry and probably mostly drunk mob.
This is where, if an alien were watching his first UFC event in a misguided attempt to learn something about Earth culture, he’d be forced to conclude that sometimes we just hate stuff for no reason. Here’s Sherk, a former UFC champion and veteran of the sport, who just gave us three hard rounds, and now fans are booing him simply because he won.
Only they’re not booing him. Not really. We know this, in the same way we know that fans aren’t really cheering the sight of Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore so much as they are cheering the idea that a guy like Ashton Kutcher, which is to say a guy with no discernible talent, could get a woman like Demi Moore.