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2 months till Sports Talk becomes relevant again
- Thread starter Leebo65
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onairb said:
Doesn't MMA stand for "Mixed Martial Arts?" Where are the martial arts? All I see are half-naked guys grabbing and kicking the **** out of each other inside a chain-link-fence ring. Looks more like a fight between two drunks in the parking lot of a dive-bar, only without guns, beer bottles, and clothing. ;D
No reason to talk about it. At least boxing requires skill and there are rules to the game.
While it's not meant as a dis on MMA, it's pretty much a niche sport. Sure, you have your dedicated fans, but it doesn't generate nearly the interest of sports radio fans like the four major sports. Hell, NASCAR gets more time on sports talk and I don't even consider auto racing a sport. I'm willing to bet that revenue during this time of year drops off too. You're not gonna hear gambling ads from oddsmakers like Jonathan Stone or Jeff Allen now like you will in a couple of months.
From a listener standpoint, that's a good thing.
If not for the sake of the station's credibility.
Actually, in reading this thread, I am reminded of Red Smith- who stated "baseball is boring only to boring people."
Of course, he never saw a game with a DH . . .
If not for the sake of the station's credibility.
Actually, in reading this thread, I am reminded of Red Smith- who stated "baseball is boring only to boring people."
Of course, he never saw a game with a DH . . .
I suppose if you don't like baseball, then sports talk wouldn't be relevant to you at the moment. I like it though, and with as many games there are every day, there's plenty to talk about on a daily basis.
Having said that, there sure is a lot of NFL talk on the radio right now in spite of the fact that the season doesn't start for 3 more months. Bret Favre radio...all day, every day. You see- sports radio IS relevant.
Having said that, there sure is a lot of NFL talk on the radio right now in spite of the fact that the season doesn't start for 3 more months. Bret Favre radio...all day, every day. You see- sports radio IS relevant.
I grew up with Baseball, used to be my favorite sport but I've lost interest. Now its gotten really iriatating with the Yankees outspending everyone and the non-stop steroid talk... MMA is a perfect go between until Football starts up again... NFL talk all day, everyday.... Gotta Luv it...
I don't think karate centers were in danger of putting baseball out of business back in the day and I don't think the MMA Training Centers will do it today.
Sports talk radio has never been "relevant" unless you work for a sports team.
It's not going to change anything in anyone's life, it's always just been about the pursuit of a lifestyle that few of us ever are actually involved in [except for through sports talk radio]. And about being easier to sell male demos to bars, dating sites, poker sites, gyms, fancy car places.
So the topics change from season to season [except lately there has been A LOT of out-of-season NFL talk about Favre and whatnot that doesn't seem to end], but don't expect sports talk to be "relevant" to anything but itself.
It's not going to change anything in anyone's life, it's always just been about the pursuit of a lifestyle that few of us ever are actually involved in [except for through sports talk radio]. And about being easier to sell male demos to bars, dating sites, poker sites, gyms, fancy car places.
So the topics change from season to season [except lately there has been A LOT of out-of-season NFL talk about Favre and whatnot that doesn't seem to end], but don't expect sports talk to be "relevant" to anything but itself.
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MMA is less entertaining Pro wrestling. For some reason, the general public hasn't caught on that it's just as pre-arranged and "booked" as Pro wrestling, with Dana White playing the Vince McMahon role to perfection, and various other guys like Cuban playing eric bischoff and Paul E.
I believe it. I've always thought it was fake, though the fighters are actually really good fighters in the real world. Perhaps it's not choreographed like WWE, but the outcomes are pre-determined, in my opinion. So they made it as real as possible, but yea, its still just entertainment. The powers that be in that industry want to ensure that they have complete control of what happens, its just how the entertainment industry works (trust me).
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I've heard some MMA talk, usually from those few hosts who actually follow it somewhat. We are in the dead zone, nothing worse than bad hosts talking about really nothing in late June and July. Time for a vacation until pre season football.
Seen MMA a couple of times at the local Native American casino on a split card with boxing. MMA reminds me of what wrestling was back in the 60s and 70s, before it got choreographed. Definitely niche programming on the big sportstalkers, like the fishing, golf and dirt-track racing shows.
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larnov
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MMA will be as much a novelty and niche as Wrestling by Thanksgiving
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CBSBoardOp
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Early estimates are that UFC 100 did 1.5 million buys on PPV, blowing away the record set for "legit" fighting sports on PPV (boxing and MMA, not pro wrestling).
Yesterday (Monday) was hilarious for my local sports talk hosts (Kenny Roda, Rizzo and Munch) as all three guys wanted to talk about the "inhuman brutality" of UFC or ignore it alltogether but all the callers wanted to talk about how awesome the Dan Henderson and Lesner-Mir fights were so the hosts were forced to humor them and go on wikipedia and educate themselves about Seth Petruzelli, Tom Lawlor, Bisping, Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic, etc.
I wasn't able to listen myself, obviously, but word is that Petros & Money and WEEI were both inundated with pro-UFC callers all day, which especially drove Glen Ordway nuts.
Another example of "old" sports talk hosts (Tim Brando, Dan Moriarty, John Seibal, Ryan Rusillo, etc.) refusing to adapt and adjust to changing fads and interests and thus being surpassed by more adaptable hosts.
As much as I personally hate Colin Cowherd and wish him nothing but failure in life, I at least applaud him for recognizing that UFC is "hot" and educating himself about it and embracing it.
Yesterday (Monday) was hilarious for my local sports talk hosts (Kenny Roda, Rizzo and Munch) as all three guys wanted to talk about the "inhuman brutality" of UFC or ignore it alltogether but all the callers wanted to talk about how awesome the Dan Henderson and Lesner-Mir fights were so the hosts were forced to humor them and go on wikipedia and educate themselves about Seth Petruzelli, Tom Lawlor, Bisping, Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic, etc.
I wasn't able to listen myself, obviously, but word is that Petros & Money and WEEI were both inundated with pro-UFC callers all day, which especially drove Glen Ordway nuts.
Another example of "old" sports talk hosts (Tim Brando, Dan Moriarty, John Seibal, Ryan Rusillo, etc.) refusing to adapt and adjust to changing fads and interests and thus being surpassed by more adaptable hosts.
As much as I personally hate Colin Cowherd and wish him nothing but failure in life, I at least applaud him for recognizing that UFC is "hot" and educating himself about it and embracing it.
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larnov said:
Actually, we'll have a better idea of UFC's new baseline fanbase with UFC 103 on September 19 in Dallas. This will be the first show since UFC 100 designed to appeal to the "hardcores" with a main event of Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. Junior dos Santos, which has little appeal to casual fans.
Dave Meltzer of Yahoo! Sports, on his Monday night podcast, estimated that UFC 103 will probably do in the 700,000 to 850,000 buy range, which is a signifigant increase from the pre-UFC 100 estimates where it would do 400,000 to 650,000 buys.
If Mark Couture can beat Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera thsi summer, than that'll lead to a re-match with Lesnar which will probably do north of 1.3 million buys when they run it in December or January.
Hardly a "niche" by Thanksgiving.
CBSBoardOp said:
Glen Ordway didn't wanna talk about UFC but he'll talk about Manny Ramirez to infinity Ad Nauseam...LOL
Baseball is going to become the Niche sport... I grew up loving Baseball but I can read the Tea Leaves. It will hang on in Boston and New York, St Louis... but the curtain is slowly closing...
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