Reebok Messes Up New Anderson Silva Shirt, Calls 'The Spider' Anderson Aldo
Reebok has created the greatest fighter that does not exist in their latest mishap on an official UFC apparel. They combined the names of Anderson "The Spider" Silva and current featherweight champion Jose Aldo.
On the official Reebok description that has now been removed from their website, the Anderson Silva T-Shirt has an all caps Silva written above a black-and-white Brazilian flag. They got "The Spider" nickname and his weight class right but messed up his name, calling him Anderson Aldo, per Bloody Elbow.
UFC heavyweight Matt Mitrione quickly noticed the gaffe by Reebok and posted it on Twitter.
The official apparel partner of the UFC released a statement regarding the mistake, saying it was just made at a solitary Reebok manufacturing site.
"Unfortunately, an error was made at one of our printing facilities. We are currently working to rectify the issue," a Reebok public relations representative said via MMA Fighting.
Back in October, Reebok was met with a lot of backlash from Irish fans by excluding Northern Ireland from the map of Ireland in a released T-Shirt. Ireland refers to the original independent democratic country and Northern Ireland is one of four countries in the U.K.
Reebok also messed up names of UFC fighters in their own official apparel. Before the official launch of the partnership in June, a handful of errors were noticed by fans and posted it on Twitter. One is on lightweight contender Gilbert Melendez, where his first name was misspelled as Giblert.
Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza's name was confused by Reebok as Jacare "Ronaldo" Souza, implying that his real name is Jacare while his nickname is Ronaldo. Even former lightweight champion Lyoto "The Dragon" Machida's name got mixed up with welterweight prospect Marcio Alexandre. Machida's T-Shirt was labelled Marcio Lyoto Machida.
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