Quote of the Day: Brock Lesnar Doesn't Rule out a Return to Wrestling

by Luke Thomas on Aug 5, 2008 2:21 PM EDT in News Comment 21 comments

"They would have to pay me big to come back...This (Ultimate Fighting) pays good, and I'm home every night. Pro wrestling was just brutally grinding on my body. No nights off, a different city every night, a different airplane. And if I got injured, I had to be on TV the next day."

-- Brock Lesnar, not sounding very enthusiastic about a return to professional wrestling, but not categorically eliminating a return to it either.

As a side note, there are now officially a million and one sites copying BloodyElbow.com's "Quote of the Day" format. Strangely, even as I change the format, other sites change right with us. The fact is "Quote of the Day" isn't the most original format ever, but no one in the MMA world was doing it before us. I was doing it before I was even writing for this site. So, the next time you see it, just know where it got started.

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What a flake he is. I knew he took the UFC gig because he was lazy.

by NoHo on Aug 5, 2008 2:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Amongst the MMA sites, yours was certainly the first I saw running that feature.

Respect.

by Brett Jones on Aug 5, 2008 2:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Hmm...

People have been quoting others and writing their own comments about it for a long time. Before blogging, before the internet, before television, and before the radio. Must be a slow news day.

In regards to Lesnar, I think he realizes that pro wrestling is not what he wants out of his life. Not to discredit the athletes who do that, as it can take a serious physical and social toll, but it is definitely second-rate nowadays compared to MMA. And as he said, the pay is decent for personalities like himself. In essence, he realizes that if he retires a pro wrestler, he won’t nearly reach the level of fame and fortune that an MMA career of a potentially top-ten heavyweight could garner him.

by KneeToTheFace on Aug 5, 2008 2:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Try running a site. And on that site, try creating some sort of unique features. Some will work, some you’ll drop over time. Now watch those features that are successful blatantly copied by other sites. Then try not getting mad about it.

by Luke Thomas on Aug 5, 2008 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, what he said!

by lovingmma25 on Aug 5, 2008 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m not trying to discredit you or the site, which I visit daily. I’m just saying, you shouldn’t get all possessive because other people are quoting things in a similar format. This is because, as I said, quotations are quite common. Of course, I’m just being “shallow and pedantic.” :)

by KneeToTheFace on Aug 5, 2008 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sorry Luke....

...but im with KTTF. It makes you sound like such an amateur when you acknowledge the fact that sites are “copying” you. Take it in stride, and continue to be innovative. Most proffesionals would look at it as a form of flattery (as long as its not blatant theft of intellectual property). Love the site though! I’ve come back to visit every day since the first day I stumbled upon it.

"I'm ready. It doesn't matter with who or where. On foot or on horseback. With maces or poleaxes. To fight. To first blood or to death. It doesn't matter, I'm ready to fight." -- Александр Емельяненко

by BlazinSkunk on Aug 5, 2008 9:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

:-)

Right on Luke!

Don't believe a word I say, I don't train BJJ. -- TangleBones

by jemaleddin on Aug 5, 2008 2:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Isn't quote of the day just the title of the post?

I love this site, I love these posts… but every day posts throughout this site quote people. Isn’t it quite random what is called the quote of the day? This quote was posted with a majority of the day left (couldn’t there be a better quote?), and the quote was from 4 days ago.

Sorry, I’m just being pedantic. :)

Luke, people can copy to try to keep up but the point is that they’re chasing you.

Don’t think people are fooled!

BloodyElbow represent.

by ghettoiam on Aug 5, 2008 2:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

“The fact is ‘Quote of the Day’ isn’t the most original format ever”

I agree 100 percent

by smoogy on Aug 5, 2008 3:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It means a lot to Luke guys, c’mon now.

by lovingmma25 on Aug 5, 2008 3:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You won’t really have an appreciation for the significance unless you run a site. The fact is the pressure to become a news site in sports blogging is tremendous. And in trying to do more than that, I’ve looked for features or ways that can communicate insight beyond straight reporting. As a MMA blog, BE has been using the QOTD feature to do just that. So when you see other sites just copying your efforts, you recognize the lack of originality and focus. I do, at any rate.

by Luke Thomas on Aug 5, 2008 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Luke don’t sweat it. Besides, how many people are coming back to the site just to catch the quote of the day??? It is a neat feature, but the reason I return is because of the range of information provided and how quickly it is posted. That and the level of member involvement and interaction. Truthfully, I probably wouldn’t even notice if the quote of the day was discontinued from the site.

I do know how you feel though. I am the Director of Layout and Design for a small publication company and it seems each time I come up with a unique feature that the readers respond well to; the competition mysteriously has the idea to run the same features. People do tend to remember where something catchy originated. The big difference is that we are a quality production with “catchy features” and they are a lesser quality production with the same features. Same could be said about your competitors.

With all that said – I’ve been known to incorporate ideas seen elsewhere (i.e. – others in my industry) as I am sure you have. Can’t hate on that…

- Alan Harmon

by Fight Genius on Aug 5, 2008 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

If you’re frustrated, just try creating the world’s first MMA blog. Every MMA blogger in world is just copying what I started. ;)

by whaledog on Aug 5, 2008 4:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Ha! Good one.

by Luke Thomas on Aug 5, 2008 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

lol….. i loved that blog back in the day….got turned on to it by zach’s site…..zach’s like the godfather of the mma blogosphere….

Mike Goldberg on robnashville:
"His analysis is so analytical"

by robnashville on Aug 5, 2008 4:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

More like the grumpy old father who nobody visits anymore because he never smiles

by smoogy on Aug 5, 2008 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And tags his articles with his own name

by asa on Aug 5, 2008 9:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Much about nothing.

The only thing I took out of that quote is how silly Randy Coture and Tito “The Huntington Beach Cry Baby” Ortiz must feel.

This dude made ass loads of cash over at the WWE and now says the pay in the UFC isnt that bad.

by HoustonRaven on Aug 5, 2008 7:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

couture and tito just dont like the fact that a lot of rookies, like the ultimate fighter winners(for example) are getting paid way more than they should since they have been put their bodies on the line for mma for many years

by theragecompelsme on Aug 5, 2008 9:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Out of all the original and interesting things Bloody Elbow does, Quote of the Day is not one of them. Taking a quote and basing a post around it is far from innovative – in fact, I’d say Quote of the Day posts are LAZY posts by bloggers who don’t have anything worthwhile to add. This isn’t a jibe against you guys, this is my personal opinion on everyone that does it. Since BloodyElbow sticks one quote amidst like 10+ posts a day, you get a pass. But a lot of other sites often rely heavily on just a quote of the day, and maybe a few extra posts that consist mainly of several paragraphs worth of someone else’s writing and a one line response of their own. That’s just crappy blogging, and it’s not worth giving two shits about because cream rises and crap sinks.

I love to hate

by fightlinker on Aug 6, 2008 2:17 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs