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Frank Shamrock chose WrestleMania 25, while we choose WEC in Chicago
By Zach Arnold | April 5, 2009
If you got as much air time as Frank Shamrock did tonight on the WrestleMania PPV next to Mickey Rourke, I’d say it was a good choice to make.
There were reports that Frank was at the WWE Hall of Fame show in Houston yesterday, as well.
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Nobody will know who he is. Won’t make much of a difference.
The Torres/Mizugaki fight was awesome. I had Torres winning 4 rounds. I could see it 3 rounds as well.
I did think Frank Mir road his jock the entire fight. I typically don’t get annoyed with commentators, but he was especially horrible tonight. Jeff Curran and Miguel Torres must have nude picks of his wife or something.
With Benavidez, I think he needs to cut down to Flyweight once they open up that division. Seems small compared to the other Bantamweights.
Some guys elevate themselves only for a night. If that’s the case with Mizugaki, it was a helluva night for the 8 fans watching at home. FOTY by far right now.
In a strange moment, 45 is pretty much right on the money with everything he said here. Torres needs to be weary in the future of the overhand right coming over his jab or body kicks. Someone with actual power might hurt him.
Mir was awful tonight. His commentary ruined the main event.
i am sick and tired of hearing about frank shamrock. he`s the most popular irrelevant fighter in mma. please, let`s not stroke his ego by continuing to talk about him.
Frank was probably interested in the Jeff vs Matt Hardy storyline, taking notes that if he fights Ken, not to try a leg drop off a 20 foot ladder.
It was a so-so Mania. But HBK vs Taker was absolutely phenomenal.
BM2— The video in your URL link is absolutely hilarious. That has to be one of the funniest MMA-related videos I’ve seen.
How many times did Frank Mir refer to Takeya Mizugaki as “Misaki”? How many other names did Mir get wrong tonight? Mir is usually a good color commentator, but I thought Jens Pulver was better on the previous WEC event.
Sorry for making this a separate post, but here’s a link that might prove useful for glorified PR agent Kevin Iole (who said that Loretta Hunt had no business writing her article without any named sources) and for any other people who don’t understand that unnamed sources are a vital part of journalism, and unnamed sources often play a key role in the reporting of news stories by actual journalists:
Protecting Sources — http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040501630_pf.html
Jens should be in the booth, even if that means having a 3 man booth.
Frank Mir was like Harry Caray last night
Ivan,
You are right that annonymous sources are vital to journalism and exposing scandals, et al.
The point remains that Sherdog’s “reporting” has more in common with The National Enquirer than real journalism. They come out the day of a UFC show with a horribly written, poorly sourced, one-sided article against the UFC. On an issue that whether it is true or not is a non-issue and you want to defend Sherdog by comparing them to real journalists doing whistleblower journalism. Come on.
[…] is the “Kevin Iole” portion of the Sporting News article. I am amazed at how much Loretta Hunt has gotten trashed here for her […]
Mr. Roadblock— Please don’t mistake “unnamed sources” for being “poorly sourced.” As for whether managers being allowed backstage is a non-issue, I think Zach put it better than I possibly could in the post that he just made.
Also to Mr. Roadblock— That was the point that I was trying to get across with Post #8: not to mistake “unnamed sources” for being “poorly sourced,” because unnamed sources are a vital part of any form of journalism.
I also wanted to point out the ignorance of Kevin Iole’s statement, “Clearly, she should never have written a story such as she did without having one source on the record.” Were he an actual journalist instead of a PR agent, he would know the aforementioned fact (ie, that unnamed sources are a vital part of any form of journalism).
To put the cherry on his irony cake, Iole then extensively quoted an unnamed source just a few paragraphs later in the very same article.
It was poorly sourced and one-sided in my opinion because she didn’t get the UFCs side. She didn’t go into how many people are typically backstage at a UFC event and how crowded the back rooms get, she didn’t compare UFC to boxing where managers often are not backstage and then the last paragraph is a Monte Cox quote out of nowhere. The article is clearly written as a paranoia piece for people to read and think Zuffa is screwing fighters at every turn. It was trash yellow journalism that wouldn’t get past the sports page editor at any reputable college or above publication. That’s my point. Dana shouldn’t make personal attacks and use the naughty language. But you should understand the man’s frustration after all he has done to get the sport we all love to where it is and every time he turns around there are hit piece articles like this coming out.
Mr. Roadblock is correct.
Now, I know Ivan will come back with: “Well, she asked them for a comment, and they declined.”
1. She knows this is her policy.
2. Ken Pavia, who she interviewed, gave the informatino freely to the Underground abotu the policy. She had to have known. If not, she is a bad reporter.
For the umpteenth time:
1. Meltzer subsequently confirmed the crux of Hunt’s article as being accurate.
2. Even if the article had been false (which it wasn’t), that would not justify the tirade. Mr. Roadblock and the vast majority of other people on FightOpinion seem to understand this; 45 Huddle does not.
Also, I’m pretty sure that 45 Huddle is exactly the kind of poster that Zach was referring to in his editorial on this subject when he wrote, “Surprise. The ‘free crack’ is now gone from YouTube. In the eyes of Dana White’s defenders, that’s the far bigger crime than what he said.”
(45 Huddle had previously written: “This is what happens when people try and make issues out of such small things. Now we have less access to backstage footage. I’m sure he will be at press conferences and those sort of things. But none of the real juicy behind the scenes stuff we have been getting.”)
Mr.Roadblock, why would Loretta Hunt need to ask the UFC anything about how the situation is backstage? We´ve all come to the pleasure of seeing what´s going on backstage through Dana´s vlogs. Doesn´t seem too crowded to me, except when Dana and his camera team start busting into everybodies locker room. Question: If the managers aren´t allowed back there (who usually handle everything a fighter needs, from water to whatever) what is Dana doing back there? Just him? ok.. but him and his videocrew and at least 5 other people from the UFC? Don´t think so. If he´s really so concerened about how many people are backstage, maybe he should stop contributing to it, or just zip it, since it´s not that bad.