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Cabo Verde (CPV) gave Argentina a hell of a time in their football match

This is a humorous sports meme that uses the classic two-panel "ok ima fight / damn got hands" boxing meme template. The top panel shows the Cabo Verde national flag paired with the text "ok ima fight", facing a standing boxer with the Argentina national flag as its head, posed as if ready to compete. The bottom panel shows the boxer representing Argentina sitting exhausted on a stool drinking water, next to the text "damn got hands" placed next to the Cabo Verde flag. A match scorecard at the bottom confirms Argentina beat Cabo Verde 3-2 only after extra time, illustrating that Cabo Verde put up a far tougher, more competitive fight against the higher-ranked Argentina than anticipated, making Argentina's win very hard earned.
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ok ima fight
damn got hands

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Argentina 3, Cabo Verde 2, after extra time

Overview

This is a humorous sports meme that uses the classic two-panel "ok ima fight / damn got hands" boxing meme template. The top panel shows the Cabo Verde national flag paired with the text "ok ima fight", facing a standing boxer with the Argentina national flag as its head, posed as if ready to compete. The bottom panel shows the boxer representing Argentina sitting exhausted on a stool drinking water, next to the text "damn got hands" placed next to the Cabo Verde flag. A match scorecard at the bottom confirms Argentina beat Cabo Verde 3-2 only after extra time, illustrating that Cabo Verde put up a far tougher, more competitive fight against the higher-ranked Argentina than anticipated, making Argentina's win very hard earned.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme community. It is a remix of the widely circulated "ok ima fight" boxing reaction meme, created to react to the 2024 international football match between Argentina and Cabo Verde where Argentina only narrowly won after extra time. The original submission title notes that CPV (Cape Verde) also performed strongly against Spain and Uruguay in addition to Argentina.

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