Quote of the Day: Jared Shaw Surfaces
by Luke Thomas on Mar 3, 2009 11:47 AM EST
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"Unfortunately, while I would like to say that I am hurt, that’s just the unfortunate reality of life. There’s haters in life, there’s jealousy in life. There’s people who are misinformed. I am used to feeling the brunt of hate or gratification - however somebody wants to treat me. To hear my coworkers come out and basically throw stones, slander me, and insinuate things that are not true, it showed that they didn’t know what was going on. I think everybody wants to be in a position of power. Look, the one job that I think is kind of like fantasy football or fantasy baseball to everybody is being a matchmaker, and not everybody can hold that position in a company because not everybody has an eye for talent and because if you got too many chiefs in the kitchen, there’s no cook. So, in that essence, some people felt like they wanted that opportunity, and I am sorry that when they made a statement it wasn’t heard or that they didn’t have a say in the company’s future. I did my job, and I got nothing bad to say about anybody because, at the end of the day, I can hold my head up high and know that I am real human being and I don’t need to take pot shots at others to make myself feel better or to make myself look better to future endeavors. I know what I brought to the table, and I think people from the inside who really understand the sport, I think they know what I brought to the table."
-- Jared Shaw, former VP of EliteXC, talking to Ariel Helwani on Versus.com
If you are expecting any measure of a mea culpa out of Shaw, you're going to be a sad bear on Christmas morning.
Photo by Esther Lin.
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“If you got too many chiefs in the kitchen, there’s no cook.” Ok…does he mean if you have too many chiefs then there are no Indians? Or, too many chefs spoil the soup? I’m confused by this damn mixed metaphor!!!! Ok, I’ve got it! He means if you have too many chefs then there’s no one to cook the Indians.
i wonder if it’s a reporter’s mistake or his. I don’t see a [sic!]
by pumaman on Mar 3, 2009 1:25 PM EST up reply actions
"Rapper Whatever the F**k His Name Is" Shaw
Best thing to ever come from Dana.
If you're not submitting, you're just rolling around with another guy.
I think people from the inside who really understand the sport, I think they know what I brought to the table.
I couldn’t agree more.
Why the picture of K Fed? Somebody’s gotta put a picture of him pulling his hair out when Kimbo does his patented face slide.
Jesus. That brings back nightmares. I remember watching the replay of $kala freaking out and thinking, “WTF is that idiot doing?” Here’s to hoping ths Shaws stay out of MMA forever.
That was a flying illegal blow that could've killed him.
But I guess, at Skala’s level of expertise Seth’s beating could have looked illegal?
by asa on Mar 4, 2009 6:24 AM EST up reply actions
Am I the only one that thinks his response was somewhat classy? I’m not letting him off the hook for all his idiocy with XC, but a response like that, that doesn’t take anyone to task or get all defensive, isn’t the worst thing he could say, and it’s certainly not indicative of people’s opinion’s about the guy.
It is not the most classless thing he could say, but it is still bad. It is like say, the worst employee that works at a company gets fired and everyone expected it because it was not secret that they were awful, but they are blind sided by it and are totally unaware of what is going on to even know that they are not doing a good job. He is basiclly saying that he did a good job and everyone else didn’t know what was going on. He doesn’t even say why he did a good job, just that he did a good job. Then he screwed up a metaphor and blew his point out of the water before he even made it. I think he is saying that he was good at his job because he is good at fantasy baseball, which is offencive on every level. So classless? no, well maybe but not here. Clueless, totally and completely.
How is it classy at all to accuse everyone who ever said anything bad about you of just being “haters” jealous of how good a job you were doing? It was very indicitive of my opinion of the guy, he’s a cocky jerk who thinks he’s better than everyone else and immune to criticism. It reminds me of Gary Shaw saying that MMA fans are haters who dislike everyone when the actual truth is that a lot of people just don’t like Gary Shaw.
Uh, he’s not saying that. Did you read the whole interview, or just this snippet?
“Whether we were doing a good job or not, I don’t think that was in question. I think everybody in that company was doing a great job especially as a startup.”
He didn’t say “I did a better job than them and they didn’t like it, so they’re haters”. He’s just saying he’s not going to respond to what a lot of people have said about him. that’s his prerogative.
I can hold my head up high and know that I am real human being and I don’t need to take pot shots at others to make myself feel better or to make myself look better to future endeavors.
So all the things people from EliteXC are saying about him are just people taking pot shots to make themselves look better. It’s exactly what he is saying, people who are talking about his role in the company are just hating on him. Just because he isn’t naming names doesn’t mean that he isn’t passing the blame and responding to what people were saying about him, he seems to pass the buck for every bad thing that happens during the entire interview.
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I am not going to do an injustice to the sport by giving it a black eye if the fans just don’t want to embrace the Shaws. The one thing is that MMA is a very hateful circle; there isn’t a lot of journalism. I speak to you because I respect you. There’s a couple of other guys covering this sport that I respect a lot. But there’s too many bloggers in this sport. There’s too many people sitting in their cubicles, not doing their job, and when they are done with Facebook and Myspace, they are blogging on their own little Internet site or on some other forum. Unfortunately, because this sport is new, television executives have to go on the Internet and rely on the information they see, and a lot of times they see information that is inaccurate.
So it’s all the fan’s fault and the bloggers fault and it’s us talking on the internet that ruined his reputation with tv executives just because we don’t want to embrace the Shaws. Pretty darn arrogant right there. So we only hate him because he’s a Shaw? So the whole problem was all ignorant bloggers making up stories about him that weren’t true? Way to pass the buck.
So, that said, do you think you have been black-balled by the MMA community thus making it hard for you to ever work in this sport again?
Yeah, I believe in some way I have been singled out as the bad guy. Some people want to blame me for the demise of the company, but those that were close know the truth. I haven’t gone on the record with anybody because I don’t really have anything to say. I know what I brought to the table, and I believe in karma. I believe in what goes around comes around, and those that were responsible for the demise – and it’s not one person in general – they all know it and they’ve all felt it. I don’t need to point my finger at anyone.
First of all it’s pretty arrogant to think people are blaming him for EliteXC failing, most people think of him more as a symptom of the sickness as opposed to the guy who killed the company. Also pretty arrogant to think that he is being singled out here, there is plenty of blame to go around, people don’t seem to care for the guy because he comes off like a bad joke who got his spot through nepotism as opposed to blaming him for killing the company(like he had the power to singlehandedly kill the company). The bloggers have black balled him from the sport with their ignorant blogging and it was the “other guys” who were completly responsible for the collapse of the company.
In your opinion, was there any correlation between the demise of the promotion and the Seth Petruzelli "standgate" story following his shocking win over Kimbo Slice on October 4th?
No, absolutely not. And people want to link the demise of the company to the demise of the promotion. EliteXC was a healthy operating company. EliteXC was Pro Elite’s one golden nugget. The chest was big, and we were just one piece of it. And because EliteXC was in the public eye people think EliteXC lost 55 million dollars. EliteXC never had 55 million dollars to play with. The parent company may have.
So ELiteXC was a financially sound “gold nugget” and it was the other guys who ruined everything. Was ProElite secretly involved in some other business and that’s where all that money went? Was EliteXC ever actually making money?
Looking back, is there anything you would have done differently during your time with EliteXC?
Yeah, get control of the 55 million dollars! (laughs). Obviously, I wish I wasn’t standing up when Kimbo got hit (by Seth Petruzelli on October 4th), and I wish that I didn’t have such a close, personal relationship with Kevin Ferguson (aka Kimbo Slice) that it looked like an injustice because it was never that. I am a straight shooter, I am very kosher.
So his one mistake that he wishes he could change was that he wishes he was standing up during the Kimbo vs Petrucelli fight. I guess everything else he did was great. Of course he goes on to say that it had nothing to do with the knockdown it was all a big misunderstanding. Perhaps him doing the same thing during the Thompson fight completly slipped his mind.
At the end of the day, my only regret is in that in that one instance that I know I did have control over, that I would have reacted differently
So that was the only thing that went wrong that he actually had control over, how amazing is that.
by who me on Mar 3, 2009 3:20 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
You spent way too much time on that rebuttal. So he’s immature and arrogant. Your interpretation of what he’s saying is not what I get out of all that at all.
Actually, he just got out of the recording studio, where he was working on his hot new single, “I’m incompetenT.” He says that the ‘T’ is ‘capitalized and backwards’ for artistic reasons.
"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito on Belfort at Affliction:DOR
by Rundownloser on Mar 3, 2009 1:05 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
The guy took on a job that he was ill-suited for, to put it mildly. He embarrassed himself and his employer at every turn, and now he seems hell bent on blaming these faceless “haters.” Shaw would be better suited to keep a low profile. His statement here is just a whole lot of nothing; maybe, him keeping his name alive on the internet is the objective.
i would be more that happy to act as his ‘second.’
by pumaman on Mar 3, 2009 6:04 PM EST up reply actions
I just want to say:
Jared Shaw + Kimbo + MILF Hunter t-shirt = pure class
That is all.
Although detractors decry (MMA) as a brutal, bloody form of human cockfighting, aficionados know it is a brutal, bloody, totally fucking awesome form of human cockfighting. -The Onion
by The Kittitas Kid on Mar 3, 2009 1:41 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Look closely at the picture attached to the article.
by Cannon Jacques on Mar 3, 2009 10:28 PM EST up reply actions
“Look, the one job that I think is kind of like fantasy football or fantasy baseball to everybody is being a matchmaker, and not everybody can hold that position in a company because not everybody has an eye for talent” This statement alone just got under my skin. I’ve heard rumors of employees in Elite XC trying to set up Mousasi vs. Lawler, there were all kinds of matchups that he could have set up that could have brought some legitimacy to his promotion he was handed something great and could have made something special with it instead Elite XC is just a dark spot in MMA history and to even try and shift the blame on anyone else is just wrong it’s official Jared Shaw is the Paris Hilton of MMA.
I do agree that that not everyone has an eye for talent like Skala has, heck only Skala’s eye picked up on his own talent :D
by who me on Mar 3, 2009 1:49 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
His nickname should be changed to "Ipecac"
Because every time I’m exposed to his photos, quotes, audio bytes, or video, I lose my lunch. Perennial Douche Bag of the Year..
"I hit [Evensen], and you could just see it in his head. He went, 'Oh, man. We don't have to do this anymore. I'm good. Thanks for having me. I'm going to go home now." -Pat "The Real Techno Viking" Berry
kimbo should consider a career change to full time professional milf hunting
by pumaman on Mar 3, 2009 6:01 PM EST reply actions
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