Comments on: Sunday media review: All UFC, all the time

By: Tomer Chen

Tomer Chen — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:08:31 +0000

Tomer, frankly I am amazed that ABC maintained any association with boxing after the US Boxing Championships debacle of 1977. IMHO, if it wasn’t for Alex Wallau’s presence in the executive boardroom, ABC would have pulled out of the sport many years before they did.

Personally, I’m shocked that The Ring had any fans at all after it was exposed that Johnny Orr was Don King’s bitch-boy bribe taker. I guess people were used to the fact that Tex Rickard, Mike Jacobs, Chris Dundee, etc. bribed writers for years in order to get favorable reports for their fighters…?

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:34:27 +0000

I am going to say it now, from what I saw of WEC, I think I like it better than UFC. Now, I must check out stuff like Shooto, DEEP, go back to Pancrase, etc.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:38:49 +0000

Wow. I am hearing really good stuff about the WEC 27 event. Might this be my long awaited replacement for Bushido? I like the idea of having smaller weight. smaller shows because they really showcase talent and not just a simple one two take down and gNp. I liked Bushido, and if I can get my hands on the WEC event, I think that I will like it as well.

BTW, I am going to recommend that if any guys here like what the WEC is offering, to check out some Shooto Back To Our Roots 1,2, or 3, or some DEEP Impact 21,23,28, or 29. They insane stuff in Japan with the smaller weight fighters.

I call it feeding my Pride fix.

By: chairibofjustice

chairibofjustice — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:52:21 +0000

They just need to have smart people period, I could careless whether or not they are American or Japanese. I mean when they said they would be holding it at the Memorial Coliseum, that was a major red flag.

I wrote a long ass post about that already but simply put there’s nothing common about common sense.

They could have really turned it into something special but it was just a half-assed effort from the start. The problem isn’t the Japanese side of the company, it’s whoever is allowed to run the show over here. And whoever those English speaking idiots are, I’ll guarantee you that they had little or no fear of any consequences from K-1.

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:34:43 +0000

And K-1 and PRIDE have shown that the Japanese in the fight game have NO CLUE how to run shows in the US. They could draw in Japan on name alone and just announcing guys who were going to be on the card, but they can’t seem to realize how embedded UFC is and that maybe they AREN’T household names in the US b/c they haven’t run shows here before.

The commission and not announcing fights until 5 days before really hurt them too. Maybe they need to get smart about having experienced American promoters to run shows overseas (re: here)??

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:31:26 +0000

Exactly what I was thinking. Get some ads during WWE or pro wrestling related programs or on channels they run on…maybe run some “pro wrestling-esque” promos for him and viola! They’re dying for an American HW face in MMA…and if handled right and brought along smartly he’s got some great tools.

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:20:28 +0000

I think the very first step is actually running commercials during Smackdown, RAW, & ECW. The fact that K-1 did not do this, was a horrible idea (or lack of).

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:13:47 +0000

“The thing about Lesnar is that in order to draw the pro-wrestling fan-interest, he has to be acknowledged as being a former pro-wrestler by the promoter. No way in hell Dana White will do that. Gary Shaw will. Calvin Ayre will. K-1 did.”

You really think that’s necessary? I mean people will clearly know who the guy is…all you have to do is just market him in the right places and people are going to recognize him (he’s got a pretty unique look). Even if you just make some kind of veiled references, I don’t think you’d have to go to the extent of actually tossing out “WWF Champion” and hurt your image as a “legit org/event”.

Play up his amateur athletic background and “All American” image. Hell, Dana White wanted to bring in Kurt Angle – he can’t be THAT concerned.

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:09:51 +0000

“But Hominick reminds me of Sam Stout and Duane Ludwig. So solid on their feet, but just can’t compete once they make it to the ground.”

Seeing as Hominick and Stout are both Team Tompkin guys out of London, Ont. – there might be a bit more to that…maybe they need a bit more sub-D training in their camps. Though Hominick did pull out a nice triangle on Edwards a bit back. I realize that Rani is a sick sub guy – but its not like he was even pulling out any crazy Saku/Aoki style stuff to get that sub on him…pretty standard stuff.

And for the love of God I hope Mir stops trying to get over his whole “the Lion Kill” phrase. It sounds so dumb and he only says it every 5 seconds if someone has any semblance of back control.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:35:42 +0000

I wacthed the WEC event. Damn good show. I was impressed. I didn’t watch Dynamite!! on Saturday because I went to an amatuer kickboxing show in Plymouth, Pa. Some damn good fights. The craziest thing was that the best fight of the night (atleast in the top three. there were thirteen fights. Two of them exhibitions) was a fight between two I think twelve year old girls. It was a crazy good fight, I swear. And it wasn’t one of the exhibition fights either. it was a sanctioned full contact rules fight. All the fights were full contact rules (eight kick minimum per round). Besides the one fight, all the other fights were male fights, most being adults, including a fifty year old that had no business being in a ring, and got knocked out in the first round. And the event had the worst music ever. Almost all of it was a cover band doing older WWF/WWE theme musics, and the legit version of “Whoomps, there it is!!”. Almost made me commit suicide.