Jim Rome: MMA Purist

by Michael Rome on Jun 3, 2008 1:02 AM EDT in News Comment 15 comments

Jim Rome echos the MMA blogosphere on ESPN:

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Awesome. I hadn’t seen Jim Rome today. Pretty funny analysis, and hopefully his viewers/listeners who don’t normally watch MMA take note.

by Popetastic on Jun 3, 2008 1:32 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

This man is the man.

by Gong on Jun 3, 2008 1:34 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I don’t normally care for Rome much as a personality, but I’ll still tune into his program semi-regularly. Today I tried to catch as much ESPN to get everyone’s take on MMA. Rome really went up a tick in my book. He sounded pretty informed and I’m fairly confident that he will give MMA more (and positive) coverage going forward. Mike Golic (of Mike & Mike in the morning) sounded considerably less educated about MMA, but still intimated how he enjoys watching it and had some commentary regarding the EXC show. I do wish that someone would have mentioned WEC throughout the day, seeing how the EXC program was widely considered something of a critical failure.

I also very much expected Skip Bayless to go on a tirade about “the brutality of MMA”, but he didn’t make any negative comments (though he admitted to watching women’s softball instead of EXC). I think that ESPN may have encouraged their journalists (if you can call some of them that) to be open about MMA going forward. All in all, a good day of sports media coverage for our sport (which may be the best thing to come of the EXC program).

by Blackout612 on Jun 3, 2008 1:42 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I wish I had elected to watch women’s softball instead.

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by Richard Wade on Jun 3, 2008 1:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well.. At least Young and Carrano played a little hardball.

by Blackout612 on Jun 3, 2008 2:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Skip said he forgot the CBS event was on, and he said earlier on the show that he’s a huge women’s softball fan. I’m interested to see this week’s MMA Live show.

by Popetastic on Jun 3, 2008 2:00 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I wonder if they’ll be critical or if they’ll try to pretend it wasn’t an embarrassment to the sport.

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by Richard Wade on Jun 3, 2008 2:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have a feeling that Kenny and … I can’t remember the other guy’s name…. will be honest about how bad CBS was.

by Popetastic on Jun 3, 2008 2:37 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wicked. He summed up the whole weekend.

by pud333 on Jun 3, 2008 3:39 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I only caught the tail end of it and Jemele Hill (sp?) seemed to be extremely uninformed about MMA. She said something like: In MMA they are just trying to knock each others heads off, in boxing there’s strategy….Rome jumped in and let her know that there was definitely significant strategy going on in MMA. To Jemele’s credit, if Sat. night was her first experience, i can see why she may have come up with that assumption.

by Kel on Jun 3, 2008 7:20 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs