How does the common person define the word douchey?
Urban Dictionary defines douche as a word to describe an individual who has shown themselves to be very brainless in one way or another, thus comparing them to the cleansing product for vaginas. Of course douchey is defined as simply having characteristics that would qualify someone as a douche.
While douchiness may be in the eye of the beholder, there will always be cases upon which most people can agree are douchey.
Although martial artists historically have shown more sportsmanship and respect for their opponents than that which has been shown by athletes competing in stick and ball sports, tempers and emotions often run hot in combat sports. This can often result in douchiness.
Douchiness filled legendary Japanese submission wizard Shinya Aoki in his 2009 bout against Mizuto Hirota at K-1 Dynamite when he literally added insult to injury by sticking his middle finger up at his opponent moments after defeating him by breaking his arm.
Sometimes douchiness is even displayed by old school fighters who’ve seen and done it all, like the time Renzo Gracie stepped on judo bronze medalist Ben Spijkers’ head after defeating him in 1995.
In 2003, Renzo Gracie student Ricardo Almeida followed his master’s douchey lead by holding a guillotine choke on Nate The Great Marquardt long after he had tapped and the referee tried separating them. To add a supportive douche exclamation mark to Almeida’s deed, Renzo jumped in the ring and kicked a just defeated and visibly frustrated Marquardt in the head.
Sometimes douchey MMA moments occur outside the ring or cage, as with Paige VanZant’s reneging on her promise to shave her head on behalf of children’s cancer charity, St. Baldrick’s foundation if she were ever to make it to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Lying about helping kids with cancer is pretty undeniably douchey.
Several other of MMA’s douchiest moments are also featured in the video below.
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Jeff Warsaw is the former executive editor of Long Island MMA Magazine, professional combat sports public address announcer for several NY/NJ MMA and kickboxing promotions, and a proud one-stripe white belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under the famed Joe D’Arce. He is currently a musician, coffee enthusiast and host of the Stranger In A Strange Land podcast on YouTube.
