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Defending the concept of WAMMA
By Zach Arnold | August 17, 2008
“Big” John McCarthy does his best to support WAMMA here, but misses one point when he claims that all promotions outside of UFC want to support WAMMA champions. That point? The promotions aren’t supporting the true spirit of the concept, given that every promotion has their own title belts and the two major promotions in MMA, UFC and DREAM (K-1), will never go along with the sanctioning body.
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I don’t understand at all why he even bothered to go that far in depth for that. If you know UFC you know they are isolationist in nature. Everybody knows that Dana White isn’t going to say, “You know WAMMA is a great concept, let’s toss our hat into the ring.” They won’t even let HBO handle production for them and give them a ton more exposure and legitimacy.
The WAMMA concept is silly and will never work. This might as well be defending the concept of the YAMMA.
The WAMMA concept drives me nuts. Was there a meeting one day where a bunch of people sat down and said, “How can bring exactly what is wrong with boxing into MMA?”
The sport has the perfect amount of weight classes and sanctioning bodies don’t work. As bad as the UFC may or may not treat its fighters, you cannot argue that the UFC’s matchmaking is what has helped drive MMA’s popularity. UFC constantly makes its stars fight.
If MMA were like boxing, Monte Cox would have signed up Joe Riggs, Matt Serra, Drew Fickett and a couple guys like that, built them and fed them 2 per year to Matt Hughes after the first St. Pierre fight. St. Pierre would have been frozen out of the division and Hughes would still be Welterweight Champ.
Mr Roadblock, I agree completely. I was thinking the same thing yesterday.
Dave, I don’t think that production control was the main stumbling block. Dana White’s interview with Playboy got me thinking it may have been more about PPV revenue, or allowing HBO to buy a stake in UFC.
Luke is correct in that the HBO wanted to buy a stake in UFC.
BTW…WAMMA sucks.