**Also to those who think I don’t know the prober use of they’re/their/there I realize I didn’t you the right one above – blame spell check.

Let me go through a few things here. We both cover the same stories basically. There are a lot of stories you cover that I do not but we both discuss the UFC and as such a lot of the meat of our stories will be the same. Here is the process I use and if there is something “wrong” with it then please let me know.

I find a link to the original source of a story from wherever be it a website, contact, forum, etc. I read the article and pull the “news” or headline from it. I write this down and then fill in the story with background on the fighters from Sherdog, Wikipedia, or other fighter databases. I form my opinions based on their statistics and video research.

I have never had an issue with you and still don’t. I think there are a lot of sites that could have examples of nothing more than covering the same news. If you would like to talk about this over email and explain what the issue is and what you think should be changed I would be more than happy to talk over email. My address is kris AT ufcdaily.com.

It’s as clear as day.

I have zero problem with “competition” — I have no other beef with anyone else in this “industry” other than you. And we both know it’s for damn good reason.

Spare me your sympathy.

I wasn’t cutting down the online news sites. I am one. I was just injecting some realism into the picture. I have had many conversations with people in and out of the industry and it’s pretty much the same consensus.

There’s no impetus to give us access to their event. They are the featured MMA promotion in this country and people are buying their product regardless of our absence. We continue to cover their shows because they are the biggest in town regardless of how they treat us.

I still feel strongly that the grass root news org’s should be catered to because we do provide a positive chorus out there on the echo chamber, otherwise known as the Internet. This can be leveraged later to spread more information on your org to the niche groups we cater to. I am not saying they should overboard, there should still be guidelines and proof that you provide valuable content before allowing us access to their playland.

However, trying to convince a quarter billion dollar promotion that our 100,000 per month viewership actually means something is the challenge we all face.

@UFCmania – Apparently because I deliver much the same news as you I am a sham? Everything I express on my site with regards to opinion is my own. Last I checked just because 2 sites cover the same topic they are a rip off. Maybe CNN should tell Fox News and MSNBC to stop ripping their idea off? The point is there is enough UFC to go around and if that has you irked then leave the genre. We cover the same news, we have our own opinions. If my site is a “sham” according to you then so be it. I have a good audience and you have your own.

I expressed my sympathy to your site for not getting this sponsorship just put the past behind and lets both move on and deliver UFC news and opinion in our own way. If you want to talk about this over email I would be glad to but putting issues into public view and calling my site a sham is not the way to discuss issues. As far as I am concerned you had you site first, then Junkie came, then I launched earlier this year, then further sites have come along since. It is part of the cycle and part of the business of new media.

No one needs to be publicly ousted whether the claim has basis or not. What you say is libel because it is defamatory without backing. Will I do anything about it? No because I just brush it off because you are one of many people I have dealt with who have done very similar things. You are mad because we cover the same news. That is just a fact of life and part of a free society. Competition comes along and you have to keep doing what you’ve been doing and hope for the best, adapt to the new situation, or get out of the niche.

Again if you want to talk about it in private over email I would be glad to but otherwise stuff like this doesn’t deserve my time or attention.

It hurts because UFC Daily is a sham. Be original, stop ripping off from me, Junkie, and whoever else.

As for Adam Morgan, no, I do not think that has anything to do with it. It was not a fight, he escorted an overzealous patron out the door who took a swing at the bartender.

Having said that, I don’t know the real reason. Maybe someone was just having a bad day for all I know.

There is no soft quantification of numbers. If you aren’t reaching 1+ million and/or recognized as mainstream, and/or know somebody way up top, then you aren’t worth their time and will not get press qualifications.

The cold hard truth is that it’s not about you. It’s all about them. Even if you are painting them golden, they don’t care.

Short sighted IMHO because they will need grass roots once the competition heats up to continue to push traffic to them instead of their competitors.

Maybe then we will be “worth” something to the UFC. Until then we must be satisfied with the breadcrumbs.

Given the recent backlash over Sims/Thomas and their “street fight,” do you think this has anything at all to do with the very, very, very insignificant incident with Fitch and the rear naked choke at the Cardiff Lounge a couple weeks back?