Comments on: Monday media notes: MMA media’s changing landscape

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:08:17 +0000

I just think no one wants to have “the world leading organization for mma” have every division with a champion and interim champion and really start to devalue the belts in the fans eyes.

Same argument as for boxing, when you’ve got two guys holding belts in the same weight class and the interim guy possibly making title defences – it just makes for a real clusterfuck.

Why not have the other fighters continue fighting, have #1 contenders and when the champ is back have him defend the belt. I don’t see the necessity for having the belt in play when I think the major complaint is that they spend so much time dicking around and not having the belt in play to begin with…Sherk should have been immediately stripped, they should have scheduled the PPV’s better so that Hughes/Serra happened in NJ and really they’ve just mismanaged their title fight scheduling and now they’re getting trigger happy and putting out interim belts without batting an eye.

By: Brandt

Brandt — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:18:59 +0000

ch: Well, unfortunately very few of those writers in this saturated market have any interest in writing about MMA for free.

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:44:25 +0000

I thought Fight Opinion Radio was very good…. except for the rant about GSP/Hughes.

It seems like the MMA Media just can’t be happy with the UFC sometimes, even when they do good. It seems like the general feeling is: “Oh, it is great that Zuffa put together Hughes/GSP…. But here is my laundry list of complaints about it.” And each person is complaining about something different. Just makes the collective bunch look like a complaining bunch.

By: Zack

Zack — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:28:16 +0000

I listened to the latest FO radio show. Great content/insight. The editing was a little weird but no biggie.

By: ch

ch — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:27:21 +0000

actually, brandt, the market for mma writers is oversaturated. the supply very much exceeds the demand. the larger websites can only support so many writers (consider that yahoo! sports, which i’m sure offers the best pay, only has 3 mma writers.) the chances of moving up in the industry publications is slim to none. the best bet for writers is to reach out to local publications looking to add mma-related content. if you write for fun then that is the benefit of writing for these sites. if you write for money, the benefits are almost nil.

By: Zack

Zack — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:33:25 +0000

IFL stock down to 17 cents.

By: Brandt

Brandt — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:53:31 +0000

GB: You answered your own question. If the sites make no revenue, how will the writers get paid? If you check out my site, MMA Opinion, you’ll see the Google Ads, but they only generate a few dollars a week, if that. The writing is done for fun and it allows serious writers to get their name out to the bigger sites. Consider it a mutual benefit.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:02:33 +0000

Preach, it puts a smile on my face each time I encounter a Donnie Yen fan. You wouldn’t believe how many times I’ve watched my VHS copies of Wing Chun and Iron Monkey.

By: GB

GB — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:03:31 +0000

Just a question regarding MMA sites. Do any of these sites pay their writers? I assume that at first it’s sort of difficult to generate a reliable revenue stream, but if these sites insist on getting all their writers for free their quality is never going to improve. I mention this because you still catch glaring grammatical in some of these writers’ texts, including those that contribute to Sherdog.

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:10:41 +0000

More importantly don’t tell Marco Ruas about WFA and WEF misusing his name….