Jake Shields is a veteran in the sport of mixed martial arts. Fans have not seen the former UFC title challenger in the cage for a while now. However, Shields is active on social media and regularly interacts with fans. The former UFC superstar spoke about a “smart” move by a fan to ban his girlfriend from wearing a Stephen Curry jersey.

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This exchange started on Twitter as Shields wrote, “I can’t believe there’s so many guys out there who will let their girl wear a sports jersey with another man’s name on it

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A Twitter user replied to Shields, saying, “Say my girl is a huge steph curry fan before we met and I can’t let her wear his jersey?! S**t jake” 

Jake Shields was quick to notice this comment by the fan. He replied, “Smart because as a professional athlete when I saw a girl with my shirt I knew exactly what that meant

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Varun Anand Bhat is an MMA writer at EssentiallySports. Not only does he train in MMA but he is also a certified judge, which gives him valuable insight while writing content. The fight between Conor Mcgregor & Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205 was responsible for making him interested in the sport of MMA. Since then he has been following and studying the sport fanatically. He has completed his graduation in sociology. His goal remains to compete and grow in the sport of MMA while writing comes to him because of his parents who inculcated the habit of reading and writing from a young age. Apart from MMA, Varun loves to read non-fiction books along with writing about different topics on his blog. You can also find him grooving to music and listening to podcasts during his leisure.

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