Time to close up the MMA forum?

[Liquidrob]

The forum is pretty much dead lately, can't get any good debates going, guys come and go

I think we should roll the MMA forum over into the 'Other Sports' section, what you you think?

[Goober]

MLB>

[Liquidrob]

we had a good run, might be time to just roll back to the "MMA Thread" and work from there

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Damn, MMA Crew goes from having all the stroke at VSN to getting blown out in the March Madness Tourney to closing up the damn shop?

Rob...do not talk like such a blasphemer.

[Kuzzy Powers]

The sport is losing its luster lately, its not just a VSN thing.

[Warner2BruceTD]

UFC domination of the sport makes things less interesting, and the numbers prove it. There are less eyeballs watching MMA and paying for PPV's since Zuffa bought SF. Why people thought that was a good thing is beyond me. An awesome B/R writer predicted this, but they chose to edit me and run me off, and push UFC shills like Jeremy Botter instead. So instead of unbiased insight now they get shill filled fluff, but thats what the Tapout shirt geeks want.

[Liquidrob]

Ah, that's why you have turned more anti zuffa lately, BR tried to put a muzzle on you, fight the good fight Joe Rams!

[Warner2BruceTD]

Ah, that's why you have turned more anti zuffa lately, BR tried to put a muzzle on you, fight the good fight Joe Rams!

Yeah, I detailed how things work over there in a three paragraph rant in another thead, I guess you missed it.

[calgaryballer]

Link?

[CrimsonGhost56]

mma has been boring as of late. ufc took a month and a half off, the sports biggest stars like GSP and Silva have been gone forever, the Reem is a god damn idiot, there really are no new BIG stars coming through, and bellator just cant seem to break through yet. mma goes through little dead periods every once in a while and i cant remember a more dead stretch then this.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Link?

To my rant? Here...

Yahoo is now in the Bleacher Report business of publishing "fan" articles (which is what this trash in the OP is).

Bleacher Report has actually hired a bunch of pro bloggers and promoted some "fan" writers to paying positions in recent months. I gave up writing for them because it's nearly impossible to get on the front page, and even harder to stay on the front page, because the list writers (UFC: TOP TEN SICKEST KO'S OF ALL TIME!!) and people who mark for themselves who write total trash with google keywords chasing hits, which keeps them on the front page (its based on total reads, if you dont get reads, you fall of the page).

I wouldn't play that game with the editors. They constantly wanted to change my titles to include google keywords, and always tried to edit me down from 2000 words to like 800. "People won't read long articles". Really? Better let Bill Simmons know, he's a gazillionaire and has his own site now and writes like 15,000 word articles on a bad day.

That's why I stopped submitting to them. It's frustrating. I find writing about UFC boring. There is enough UFC analysis out there, im not interested. But why should I waste my time writing a well thought out Bellator or Pro Elite or Strikeforce or Around The Cage piece, when they wont feature it, and it will be off the front page in a few hours (if it makes it on at all), while shitty TOP 10 garbage and copy & pasted NEWS!!1!! gets all the attention from the editors? I'm not a fucking reporter, I refuse to pretend to break scoopz so I can mark out for my reads and see my name on the front page. No thanks.

I was very proud, I never buckled and wrote trash or gave in to the editors, and most of my stuff got 1,000+ reads, some over 2,000, while sitting dead on the bottom of the page or completely off of it. I already have a career, I don't need that shit, I write for fun. If somebody wants to pay me, great, but it will be for shit that I want to write, not shit dictated to me by editors who want google hits. I only submitted to B/R in the first place because a local paper by some miracle picked up a freelance article I submitted, so I figured if I was good enough for that, maybe I should open myself up to the masses.

That's also why I never bothered with the pro wrestling section. I'm not going to put effort into a well thought out piece, only to get buried because some 19 year old mark with a gimmick name like "The Krusher' bumps me off the front page with "WWE RAW: TOP TEN OPPONENTS BROCK MUST FACE RIGHT NOW".

I've been looking for a place to submit some stuff, but the model is LISTS and SLIDESHOWS and copy/paste news. I don't need to see my name on Yahoo badly enough to write something as bread dead as the shit in the OP.

[FirstTimer]

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Blech.

MMA is really starting to become like baseball for me. Where I absolutely love the sport but refuse to follow it.
UFCs awful watered down cards , Brocks embarrasing 4th grade performance , Monumental Retard handling of FOX premier , Diaz/GSP card shenanigans ,Diaz decision , OverRoid failing (again imo) , all related shows on some channel I still cant seem to ever locate have really added up to me not giving a hoot.

Theres enough heavyweights on that card to keep me interested but my FanOmeter is as low as its been since 2000 when my video store stopped getting new tapes.

My thoughts on the all HW card.

Ill add that I hate watching mosquitos fight. Mighty Mouse and Torres would kick my shit in real life but I just dont like the tiny guys fighting. The influx of these guys on already shitty watered down cards makes me annoyed.

Too many PPV events , not enough big stars , card quality sucks.

I dont think SF being bought was bad. It never had to be. I am guilty of drastically underestimating Zuffas greed/stupidity combo.


As for MMA forum.....
When the sport gives us something to talk about...we do.

Tito Griffin III !!!!!!!!!! God help us all.

[EmpireWF]

I love watching the lighter weight classes. Most action out of any division. Fuck your Vince McMahon psyche.

[FedEx227]

Warner is pretty much spot on with how Bleacher Report operates. It's not some big news, it's fairly obvious but you'd like occasionally they'd want a diversion or some higher level articles, but nope they are completely fine with 500 word articles, "breaking news" and lists/slideshows.