Comments on: The ridiculous media criticism Sarah Kaufman is facing is largely manufactured outrage

By: Blogs brawl over how to critique female MMA « Jimkirk194's Blog

Blogs brawl over how to critique female MMA « Jimkirk194's Blog — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:03:33 +0000

[...] Fight Opinion wasn’t happy with the prefight criticism Kaufman got for complaining about exposure: She stated her demand to fight on Strikeforce main cards. Who came blame her? The fans didn’t. [...]

By: Alan Conceicao

Alan Conceicao — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:14:10 +0000

Its a chicken or egg situation for a lot of people, but the problem is that historically, there have never been chickens (popular women’s sports with crossover fanbases from male competition). Not every women’s fighter is going to be Gina Carano.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:37:33 +0000

One issue is how is the sport of womens MMA suposed to grow if it is burried in the undercard. Obviously you do not like womens MMA and there are a lot of people out there that don’t like/understand it. They want to see women carying the round number vs fighting.

If you want womens MMA to grow and get better you have to promote it. Other wise it will just fail or remain as it is.

By: Alexander Shaw

Alexander Shaw — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:56:16 +0000

LOL Can Huddle go one minute without mentioning or making comparisons to UFC. This is why some people dont like talking MMA with these types of fans.

By: edub

edub — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:20:27 +0000

Just one thing:

“and (as is usually a factor in women’s MMA) is a pretty face that they can put on posters.”

Now that is funny.

None of the women on top right now are getting promoted because they simply are not that hot. That fight did so well because Gina was in it. Cyborg’s fights have done pretty crumy in the ratings since then. The only female fighters that will become stars in MMA are ones that can be marketed on their looks: IE.. Gina carano, Kerry Vera, Michelle Waterson, Erin Toughill, Marloes Coenen(kinda), Miesha Tate, Zoila Frausto. That might be a ridiculous he-man woman hater statement, but the numbers speak for themselves…

By: Demtor

Demtor — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:39:05 +0000

It’s women’s MMA… it should be buried on the undercard, for at least 5 years. Maybe then we’ll see some real talent develop as they attempt to catch up to the men. One cyborg Brazilian woman, does not make up for the rest of the sloppy, weak, half-pints.

By: sammy

sammy — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:31:20 +0000

The complaints about Kaufman represent a lack of respect for women in our culture???

If she wants to be “respected” (ie, be treated equally to a man), then her protestations become even more absurd.

If we put male and female fighters on the same scale, guess what? Sarah Kaufman is down pretty damn low on that scale. Its only by treating her unequally that she is even getting on any televised card at all!!

By: Alan Conceicao

Alan Conceicao — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:52:02 +0000

There’s just one problem: 135 lb fighters don’t matter to the public. Not the even the men. No one cares about them. Kaufman has zero leverage here because there isn’t a game in town other than Strikeforce. Where is she going to go? Bellator? Shark Fights? Don’t make me laugh.

By: Fightlinker

Fightlinker — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:04:54 +0000

I love how people say “This is a business” to defend Strikeforce when it’s their terrible business decisions that have us all here mocking them. It’s GOOD BUSINESS to run divisions in a sane manner to move prospects and contenders up towards a belt that FUCKING MATTERS.

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:24:26 +0000

No they didn’t. He had fights left on his contract. The championship clause wasn’t even in play at the time of the issue because he wasn’t done with the remainder of his fights.