All Entries Tagged With: "MMA Blogs"
EliteXC Saturday Night Fights to lose Rappers/Dancers
According to Mauro Ranallo on Fight Network Radio. After guest, and editor of Bloody Elbow, Luke Thomas said he didn’t like the rappers, dancers, and fireworks, Ranallo responded with this: Well I’ll give you a scoop right now…that is all going to be gone come July 26th. There definitely going to put more on the fights themselves for a variety of reasons. One is economical and the other the being the fact that the show went over its alloted time by 51 minutes Ranallo went on to say that… (Full Story)
Sam Caplan Silences the Critics
Since the blowup of MMA, the blogosphere of MMA news and opinion has grown significantly. This growth has exposed many of the hardcore MMA fans to an even larger influx of MMA newcomers (affectionally termed TUF Noobs on many forums) who seem to either request kicks to a downed opponent or a mass ban of “Ultimate Fighting” in the United States. So it’s nothing new to hear the so-called MMA elitist writers and commenters to go completely crazy over controversy or a difference of opinion. I… (Full Story)
Write What You Know
There have been a lot of comments made on this site, by myself and other writers here, about journalists in the new-media and in the mass media who write articles about the sport that are clearly ignorant and have no place being pushed as anything more than the spawn of egotistical, uninformed people who get too much attention. The most recent piece of crap I’ve run into was published by Lee Russakoff of the Comcast Coalition for Idiotic Blogging. Obviously, this piece was spewed out in… (Full Story)
The Forest from the Trees
Rampage vs. Griffin is going to draw a lot of buys on pay-per-view. The internet fan base of mixed martial arts that reads blogs and news sites on a daily basis is going to hate the UFC’s Ultimate Fighter show no matter what. These aren’t concrete facts, but they are most likely to be true if you read this article a year from now. I probably wouldn’t because it will fall under what most MMA posts end up being – dull highly opinionated talking points over matters that only a small… (Full Story)
MMA Opinion helps take VideosFight Down
Back on December 6th, I wrote an article detailing Videosfight.net and their theft of online MMA blog content. I had noticed that the site was receiving trackbacks (people clicking links from other sites that pull up MMA Opinion articles) from one site in particular nearly every day. After simply opening one of the links, I saw that the site was taking works from many other MMA sites in the midst of what seemed like 20 Google Adsense advertisements. Obviously someone wanted to make some money… (Full Story)
Throwing my Hand Up: Vol. 2
Recently I wrote the first installment of my pet peeves about the MMA online scene. It can be found here. Consider this exhibit B to my fighter-writer interview relationship rant. My newest example is the way many writers jump like fanboys to the defense of fighters whenever the legal system or state athletic commissions make any move where in they just don’t understand the fight game. I’ll preface this by saying that this particular legal situation is over and charges were dropped. Din… (Full Story)
In Defense of Dana
I’m really starting to feel a kinship to the Fightlinker. First of all, I like his gimmick name. That’s a name that kills a man in an alley, and though as an MMA enthusiast I abhor street fight behavior that isn’t done by Steven Segal on TBS, if Kimbo Slice can evolve, then Fightlinker can certainly devolve. I’ve also remembered that the linker is from the great white north, Canada. I have a soft spot for Ottawa. I even finished this week’s podcast, loved the humor this week, and… (Full Story)
The Internet Did What?: Dana and Randy Break Up
When a friend of mine called to tell me what Brian Knapp reported, I didn’t believe him. I found the link to the Fight Network and read it, just annoyed. I spent the rest of Thursday night annoyed, reading unhappy comments from other unhappy fans who were over-reacting, missing the story, or being equally as sad and dead on. I went over to Zach Arnold’s FightOpinion Friday morning to get a handle on the damage. The usually smug Arnold (my favorite cynic to pick on this week)… (Full Story)
Couture Quits MMA to Pursue Acting
Update: It seems that Dana White has offered his best to Couture and hopes to see him back in the UFC if he decided to return from retirement. Also, check out this audio show of Fight Network Radio where you can hear host Mauro Ranallo is joined by Lorretta Hunt and Sam Caplan to discuss the story they broke: Randy Couture quitting UFC. Brian Knapp at The Fight Network is reporting that Randy Couture has decided to leave the UFC. It seems that Couture wanted a crack at Fedor and since the… (Full Story)
Meltzer’s Move to Yahoo will change MMA Media
Often, during infamously long winded tirades, much like my unedited writing style, on Pro Wrestling message boards and personal phone calls, I’m accused by friends of caring more about the way Pro Wrestling is covered and encapsulated then I am about the product the average person watches on TV. The truth is, long ago I became much more interested in the behind the scenes human drama of promotions like (now defunct) WCW and WWE, and eventually, about how that information was dispersed by… (Full Story)
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