[Demoslasher]

just my observation here,

I think it has more to do with how up until recently it was very widly assumed that Pride had the top fighters in every weight class they used (WW not included of course). Well now that Pride was purchased and a large number of their top stars have been bought by the UFC...their track record well...sucks so far.

A number of people just cant admit that Pride just might not have been so good talent wise as people thought. The vast majority of the thread on Wanderlei are nothing short of excuse threads where they are blaming everything short of a second shooter on the grassy gnoll for why Wanderlei, Nog, and many others are suddenly doing badly after Pride.

Overall Ive personally been a fan of Wanderlei for many years now so I don't think its a fan base issue. The reason the threads picked up about the same time Wanderlei lost in the GP is because Sherdog's population shot up about that time.