MMA in the MSM Watch: Britain's Most Respected Paper Covers UFC 100, Makes Huge Glaring Factual Error

by Kid Nate on Jul 16, 2009 8:13 PM EDT in News Comment 24 comments

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I was pretty excited to see that the prestigious Financial Times had a feature article on UFC 100. The text itself is fine enough:

Last Saturday’s event is expected to have generated more than 1.3m pay-per-view sales, with each buyer paying $44.95 to watch three tightly contested bouts. It was broadcast live or nearly live in 70 countries.

UFC’s success and the willingness of the public to pay for televised fights is in no small part due to Mr White, the company’s president. Stocky, shaven-headed and prone to expletive-laden outbursts, the former amateur boxer owns 10 per cent of the company and is in charge of day-to-day operations.

Mr White is also UFC’s public face, signing fighters to exclusive contracts, negotiating deals with an array of heavyweight sponsors that include brewer Anheuser-Busch, the US army and Harley-Davidson, and fronting The Ultimate Fighter, a weekly UFC reality television show on Spike, a Viacom-owned cable channel.

But then I clicked through the photo gallery they had with the article and just had to shake my head. They had three different photos from the Jim Miller vs Mac Danzig fight and as you can see in the caption above, in each case they identified Miller and Danzig as Dan Henderson and Michael Bisbing -- not only misidentifying Mac Danzig as Bisping, but also spelling Bisping's name wrong.

Just pathetic.

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I guess those brits think all us white people look the same, clearly racists!

by DirtyML on Jul 16, 2009 8:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

by Deo Wade on Jul 16, 2009 8:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Showzen?

by asa on Jul 18, 2009 4:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

haha, what dumb-asses!!!! or as they would say, how foolish!!!!

by mma is #1 on Jul 16, 2009 8:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

How does Britain not know who Michael Bisping is when he’s their best-known fighter?

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by themachiavellian on Jul 16, 2009 8:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Because Britain doesnt care about MMA?

by -Sam on Jul 17, 2009 4:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Apparently

the financial times doesn’t deem it respectful to spell people’s names correctly either.

by GetItOn on Jul 16, 2009 8:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Bisbing

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by Anton Tabuena on Jul 16, 2009 8:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Even "High Times" magazine would spell the names correctly.

by GetItOn on Jul 16, 2009 8:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

oh damn, i didn't even notice that

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by Kid Nate on Jul 16, 2009 8:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

oh that's just sad..

and people have been saying michael bisping is more popular than Ricky Hatton..

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by Anton Tabuena on Jul 16, 2009 8:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Who said that? Because they are either an idiot or on a wind up.

by -Sam on Jul 17, 2009 4:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

There's only one Ricky Hatton....

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by ufc4 on Jul 19, 2009 12:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bet someone feels like a right royal crumpet over at the Financial Times

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by Benicio on Jul 16, 2009 8:36 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

I don't know.

I mean Miller’s kind of got a Hendo thing going on with his hair. If you outfitted Danzig and Bisping with a couple of powdered wigs, they’d practically be twins.

by Cannon Jacques on Jul 16, 2009 8:46 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I think mazagatti's non-mustachio look threw them off..

thus committing the typos.. a fairly excusable situation right there..

plus, there’s also the sexyama pics before that they had to caption too.. so a lapse in concentration isn’t really surprising..

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by Anton Tabuena on Jul 16, 2009 8:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

3 bouts

I guess henderson/bisping and lesnar/mir weren’t that tightly contested.

I dislike Matt Hughes and Twidder.

by MonkeyCHops on Jul 16, 2009 8:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Hum?

Jim Henderson, Mac Bisbing (sounds right), and referee "Big John McCarthy (no?) are all in the pic, seems right to me :).

by JustinWF on Jul 16, 2009 9:28 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

Michael Bisping can’t spell his name anymore.

Keep firing Assholes!

Thanks to Bisping's reenactment of the Battle of Cowpens, walla walla walla I'm an idiot.

by Ubernoober on Jul 16, 2009 10:33 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

He must have written this whole thing.

I dislike Matt Hughes and Twidder.

by MonkeyCHops on Jul 16, 2009 10:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And I’m unemployed.

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by subo on Jul 16, 2009 11:11 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Also, Mandalay Bay only holds about 11,000 and the place might have been half full during the Danzig-Miller fight.

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by ufc4 on Jul 16, 2009 11:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Epic Fail

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Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who

by thetakeover on Jul 17, 2009 2:11 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

To be honest, although irritating, this doesnt really matter I suppose. The FT dont, and shouldn’t, care for the sport aspect of it, the fact that they are even paying lip service to the UFC is nice (they rarely do football articles, and if they do, specifics of the sport or players are even rarer). Its a fluff piece, nothing more (although that doesnt absolve them of basic journalistic integrity).

Also, considering this is an online only article for paid members (I dont remember seeing it in yesterdays actual paper), the vast, vast majority who even read this wont care – they are entirely the wrong audience.

If nothing else, it shows how far MMA still has to go here.

by -Sam on Jul 17, 2009 4:45 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs