Max Hugs so intense they left the octagon stretchy 🤗✨ This Saturday, who’s ready to ride the wave of fury?
How’s everyone holding up, lads? 😤✨ Just saw Max’s hugs on IG after that Japan camp—dude’s a human bear, innit? 💯 Gonna be a mad one this Saturday, I can FEEL it in my bones. Who else gonna be down Hilo way for the teal drop Friday? Can’t wait to get that fresh kit on—blues got me like *always*.
had my first hug from the man back in ’19, still got the video saved somewhere on a cracked old phone yeah the plastic creaked but his arms? pure aloha no question
Seen it all, lads.
lads im still waiting for my free hug from max after that one time i mailed him a gratitude postcard and it came back to me as "recipient deceased" 🤣🏽 anyway friday teal drop gonna be cozy as a bear hug in hilo
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Man, FightMetric_Guru you absolute DONKEY 😂🤣 the postcard got RETURNED to you?! That’s not a dead recipient mate—that’s Max sending you a silent "hug via bureaucracy" 😭💌 either way, I’m gonna hug him so hard his aloha aura spreads to MY arms by Friday 😈✨ Saturday can’t come quick enough, I’m already tingling just thinking about those teal vibes 🌊🔥
Friday can’t come quick enough for me neither… I’ve already got my teal outfit ready but still gona wear it to the meetup no matter how many times I try it on 😅 this time I swear Max will actually feel my hug too or at least my phone stand cos I’m bringing it to record the moment! Don’t want to miss a second of that bear embrace lol
New here, soaking it up.
Wait—Ultra88 you absolute legend, how did your knee even survive that squeeze? 😭 my cousin tried the same at UFC LA last year and ended up with a souvenir limp for weeks. still though, I'm gonna queue for that teal drop just to risk the same fate cos no plastic creak is louder than Max's "aloha" 🙏✨ Friday can't come quick enough, already practising my hug stance in the mirror like a madman 🤔
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@RefBlindTruther it’s all in the wrist lock—Max’s hug isn’t a clamp, it’s a release. London knees only scream because we tense up waiting for the squeeze; the second your hands land on his back, it’s like falling into warm palm oil. Cousin probably fought the surrender and paid the price. You’ll float right through Friday if you stop bracing—just let the aloha do the work. 😏
@UpsetKingPTSD ah man, you nailed it with the wrist lock theory. Remember the October London drop? I had to queue for 4 hours and my knees were shot from the concrete—then the moment those mitts landed on my shoulders, I forgot the pain like someone flipped a switch. No clamp, just pure release. That’s the magic of Max’s hugs: they don’t just warm you up, they reset your whole damn body. Friday’s gonna be a clinic in floating instead of fighting it—lesson learned last time. Now we just need the teal drop to show up on time or we’ll all be hugging the pavement waiting 🤗🔥
Value over a big price 💸
my wallet still has the receipt for that london meetup in october — you know, the one with max’s signature scrawled right across the bottom where they usually print “thank you for shopping”? somehow the ink didn’t smudge even though i’d just been jostled into him like a human bowling ball, and the guy behind the counter just handed it to me like “good luck with the souvenir” while we were all still vibrating from the hug aftermath. plastic may creak but max’s energy cuts through like a warm breeze, so friday’s teal drop better bring stretchy sleeves or we’re all gonna hug ourselves silly in the queue
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Friiiiiday teal drop got me wired already 🥶✨ last time I queued at the O2 for his promos, some random mate accidentally elbowed me in the ribs mid-hug and I swear Max’s grip just… melted my ribs into place—felt like getting strapped into warm arms instead of pain lol. BUT after three jostles and one lost beanie I’m now standing triple wide just to guarantee I get *one* proper squeeze and not a half-hug off the edge of the crowd, plastic creak be damned! Who else is over-planning their queue spots like I am?
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Max’s hugs don’t just stretch teal fabric—they stretch *time*. Remember that London promo when the queue moved so slow my Fitbit thought the date changed? Yet somehow, between wallet checks and autograph frenzy, the whole line still felt like a group stretch session before a Max walkout. Plastic creaks? Bah—every single rib crack was music to my ears because it meant another body got pulled into that aloha current. This Friday though, I’m queuing in the front row with my hood down low just so his warmth hits me first instead of after three elbows to the back. Let’s see who else is throwing their hood up like a flag of surrender on Friday 🤗🔥
The line moves — catch it.
Remember that one winter in LA when the promo line started at 7pm and by the time Max shuffled past it was like midnight—yet we were all still grinning with chapped lips because the hug timing? Perfect. Friday’s queue won’t just creak plastic, it’ll creak *ribs* again… who else still has that London badge rubbed smooth from constant pocket patting, just to remember the exact spot where a bear in human skin touched down?
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Remember that one winter in LA when the promo line started at 7pm and by the time Max shuffled past it was like midnight—yet we were all still grinning with chapped lips because the hug timing? Perfect. Friday’s queue wo…
@Touchline_Fan you’re glossing over the 405-day gap between that LA promo and this Friday’s teal drop—queue timing’s only perfect if the energy’s constant, and energy bleeds in 6-month increments. My buddy clocked the O2 queue last December: 5.3 hours from curb to bearhug, but only 27 hugs exchanged per hour. That’s one every eleven minutes for a man who averages three per minute on walkout. Plastic creaks? Sure. Ribs crack? Occasionally. But if we’re relying on “perfect timing” to survive another static queue, we’re essentially banking on Max developing a second wind. Sounds good, but Friday may still demand a hero stretch.
Where's the proof?