MMA Journalism

[Spam On Rye]

Used Sherdog and MMAfighting for my UFC news the past decade so after reading the post fight UFC articles on Sherdog I go and check MMAfighting and 12 of the 14 headlines are about Jake Paul and the BJJ guy boxing. WTF is this shit?
I get that the kids like it but the Barboza fight was one of the best comebacks of the year. Is MMA journalism broken? Seems like Sherdog is last man standing.

PS Ariel is a little snake. Just like to say that from time to time.

 

[podsox]

Apex cards don’t deserve medias time. Biggest mma organization fighting in a modern day bingo hall is embarrassing. Force them out

 

[Spam On Rye]

Apex cards don’t deserve medias time. Biggest mma organization fighting in a modern day bingo hall is embarrassing. Force them out

Apex is terrible but I don't read articles for a review of the venue.

 

[Bowel-forged Stool]

Journalism in general has become more about capturing clicks from shortened attention spans. His normal

 

[Spam On Rye]

Journalism in general has become more about capturing clicks from shortened attention spans. His normal

Yeah, everybody autistic now.

 

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Edson Barboza, 88k Twitter followers (I don't use the gram).

Sodiq Yusuff, 29.7k Twitter followers.

Ksi, 8.9M
Tommy Fury, 356k
Logan Paul, 6.8M
Dillon Danis, 1M

 

[Spam On Rye]

Edson Barboza, 88k Twitter followers (I don't use the gram).

Sodiq Yusuff, 29.7k Twitter followers.

Ksi, 8.9M
Tommy Fury, 356k
Logan Paul, 6.8M
Dillon Danis, 1M

This hurts my soul to look at. Fuck!

 

[Foghorn Leghorn]

This hurts my soul to look at. Fuck!

Yep, that's the sad reality of why it gets covered so extensively.

This BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/67113845 about it is funny, author seems like a genuine boxing fan who is confused about why the fight drew such attention VS better, real boxing.

Unfortunately, the UFC can only do so much for marketing. The fighters themselves have to be willing to put themselves out there, which I can understand why a lot of them don't want to do that. But at the same time, it potentially makes them more money and would probably please their bosses.

It is what it is, I guess.

 

[Reach4theSky]

PS Ariel is a little snake. Just like to say that from time to time.

 

[oscerthegrouch]

Edson Barboza, 88k Twitter followers (I don't use the gram).

Sodiq Yusuff, 29.7k Twitter followers.

Ksi, 8.9M
Tommy Fury, 356k
Logan Paul, 6.8M
Dillon Danis, 1M

i say i say those are some big numbers Son..!#

Spoiler

dam chicken hawks!

 

[leto1776]

Mma fighting.com is more into pro wrestling these days than mma, so following the misfits card makes sense. Helweenie is pissed at the world and mma in particular, and has been moving away from it for some time. The rest of the website is following suit, cause they’re pussies.

 

[Snake_bite]

PS Ariel is a little snake. Just like to say that from time to time.

careful now... that's a protected species

 

[Clark Rogers]

Journalism in general has become more about capturing clicks from shortened attention spans. His normal

Yeah, everybody autistic now.

This.

It is all about content and quantity, not quality. Gotta get dem clicks.

Plus far too many people care about the "influencers" than the real career athletes that are in it for more than e-clout.

 

[Gabe]

Ariel has been dickriding Danis for the last couple of months.

 

[SpiderCrawl]

MMA doesn't really have journalists, the very few we do have get ridiculed and hated on, what we have is UFC yes men/women

 

[BangBang]

Maybe chuck mindenhall and a handful of others but otherwise not really!!

 

[BangBang]

Off in a tangent but anyone ever seen the MMA Guru standing up? No, me neither.

 

[aunshi189]

The only "journalism" you need is forums.sherdog.com. Not Sherdog.com, they don't pay me nothing.

 

[podsox]

Apex is terrible but I don't read articles for a review of the venue.

If the company doesn’t take their product seriously nobody should

 

[Spam On Rye]

This.

It is all about content and quantity, not quality. Gotta get dem clicks.

Plus far too many people care about the "influencers" than the real career athletes that are in it for more than e-clout.

Dopamine is a hell of a drug and the fact that 'influencer' is even a thing means it's time for the flood.