WAMMA is Back???
by AlwaysRelaxing on Aug 20, 2009 2:27 PM EDT
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NEW YORK (August 20th, 2009) –The World Alliance of Mixed Martial Arts (WAMMA) today announces a new strategic partnership with Brand Asset Digital, the distributed technologies company. The association between the two groups will help WAMMA incorporate new sponsorships into traditional and electronic platforms.
“We believe our combined efforts will help bring new sponsors into the MMA arena,” says WAMMA CEO Dave Szady. “I will also help advance WAMMA’s mission of promoting the integrity, legitimacy and prosperity of MMA.”
"Brand Asset Digital will provide WAMMA with unparalleled access to P2Plive streaming technology and our social networking platform providing them with the ultimate online experience," says Brand Asset Digital CEO Tim Hogan. "We are on the cutting edge of changing the LIVE experience on the internet and the future of online programming with P2PLive Streaming. We are looking forward to applying that technology to mixed martial arts."
WAMMA also congratulations Strikeforce on signing WAMMA Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko, and congratulates M-1 and Dream on their partnership with Strikeforce.
“All three of these organizations have been friends of WAMMA and these developments and plans to co-promote move the sport of MMA forward on a global scale,” said Szady. “The three of these organizations have a tremendous talent pool from which to draw and WAMMA looks forward to future Championship fights.”
Additionally, Szady addressed rumors of WAMMA’s demise, including blogosphere photos of vacant WAMMA offices.
“Clearly WAMMA is alive and well, and growing,” says Szady. “We are in the process of relocating to new office space in Pensacola and will resume our rankings this month. WAMMA has been actively seeking a new rankings committee chair. We plan to finalize a new Rankings Committee Chairperson and make that announcement shortly.”
About WAMMA
WAMMA is the only universally accepted global governing body in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).
WAMMA is dedicated to leading the sport of Mixed Martial Arts to unprecedented levels of integrity, legitimacy and prosperity. With the help of forward-looking MMA promotions, WAMMA has created an environment where fighters from all organizations have the opportunity to openly compete to be the one true, undisputed champion in their respective weight classes based on WAMMA’s objective MMA Rankings.
About Brand Asset Digital
Brand Asset Digital is a distributed technologies company with a core focus on P2P Search Marketing and Optimization, delivering efficient, high-quality, live streaming technology, and video centric social networking platforms. Our mission is to provide cutting edge products and services that enable and empower Advertisers and Content Owners to easily leverage these technologies within a robust, scalable architecture. We promote and build brands amid a vast, untapped audience. We are the P2P Solutions Company.
WAMMA is like a really bad horror movie franchise that will just never die. Of the 7 weight classes primarily used in the United States (excluded Fly & Super), the UFC has 52 of the 70 Top Ranked fighters. This is according to both Sherdog and BE's rankings. And with all of this top competition always fighting each other, it really makes these belts they hand out pointless.
Please go away WAMMA!!!!
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Time to shoot WAMMA with a silver bullet, put a stake through their heart, stuff a clove of garlic in it’s mouth, remove the head, destroy the brain, throw a crucifix at them, and bury them upside down in a steel casket encased in rebar concrete.
Keep firing Assholes!
Romans, be it your duty to rule the nations with imperial sway … to impose the rule of peace, to spare the humbled and crush the proud.
by Ubernoober on Aug 20, 2009 2:33 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
It's a trick.
Get an axe.
A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
by iiowyn on Aug 20, 2009 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions 6 recs
Touche...
Army of Darkness reference is always epic.
And Bruce Campbell is awesome.
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by Leland Roling on Aug 20, 2009 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions
WHere the hell is Van Helsing?
screw it grab kate becinsale to have her hop in the lether tights thing we got some imoortal beasts to slay
i cannot spell for shit
and thus i aplogize
umm
You slay the beasts,, I’ll be busy with Beckensale ;)
by mythbuster on Aug 20, 2009 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
I must admit…. she is gorgeous, and she’s an older woman. Gets me every time.
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by Leland Roling on Aug 20, 2009 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Greg Jackson nipple tweak anyone?
A wise man told me don't argue with fools
Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who
by thetakeover on Aug 20, 2009 9:27 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
LOL!
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by Leland Roling on Aug 20, 2009 2:39 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Looking over Brand Asset Digital...
All that’s really happening is that WAMMA signed with an experienced company to promote their brand. Web and flash development (down my alley), SEO, SEM, web site design.
It still doesn’t take away from the fact that their business model is ridiculous.
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by Leland Roling on Aug 20, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
what’s the deal with “p2p” in the release if this is about websites and flash video? I don’t get how the two are connected.
They are on the cutting edge of advertising in that they will basically do the entire Google Adwords plan, but on P2P networks. They will find what you are searching for on P2P networks by similar means in which the feds track people downloading songs. In this case, they’ll target ads for what you’re downloading into the P2P software.
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by Leland Roling on Aug 20, 2009 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions
So what does this have to do with ranking fighters?
What does WAMMA have to do with live streaming? They don’t have anything to actually stream on the internet. How do you live stream fighter rankings? What in the hell would WAMMA need with a social networking platform for? Seriously has anyone ever thought “man you know what WAMMA has been missing? A social networking platform, that’s what they really are needing”?
“Brand Asset Digital will provide WAMMA with unparalleled access to P2Plive streaming technology and our social networking platform providing them with the ultimate online experience,” says Brand Asset Digital CEO Tim Hogan. “We are on the cutting edge of changing the LIVE experience on the internet and the future of online programming with P2PLive Streaming. We are looking forward to applying that technology to mixed martial arts.”
by who me on Aug 20, 2009 7:25 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I don’t know what they’ll do with the live streaming technology… I wonder if they are going to stream events or something as side income for promotions that can’t do it themselves.
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by Leland Roling on Aug 21, 2009 9:18 AM EDT up reply actions
Wouldn’t you still need a tv production crew if you were going to film for streaming video too? Are they expecting small time promotions to pay WAMMA to stream their shows or is WAMMA thinking it can get fans to pay them for streams of small time promotions? Perhaps members of their social networking platform would get to watch them?
Is it just me or does this sound like something even goofier than normal out of them?
WAMMA is the only universally accepted global governing body in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).
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by BJJDenver on Aug 20, 2009 3:03 PM EDT reply actions 6 recs
WAMMA Executives on Tremendous Drugs
WAMMA is the only universally accepted global governing body in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).
Who’s kidding whom with that nonsense? WAMMA is neither universal, accepted, nor a governing body within MMA.
Their thin shred of credibility died with Affliction. But hey, if they want to further prove the need for drug testing within MMA, by all means they should continue making statements along the lines of what I’ve quoted.
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by Brett Jones on Aug 20, 2009 3:22 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs
...*sigh*
….
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by Brent Brookhouse on Aug 20, 2009 3:24 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
Whatever...
Just replace WAMMA with your own name, and you’ve created your own competing governing body without having to re-write a press release.
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by Leland Roling on Aug 20, 2009 4:02 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs
LOL
They are back, stronger, bigger, and more organized now!
LOL
Notice how they mentioned DREAM, Strikeforce, M-1, and EA Sports.
=)
So we should take them seriously now?
Keep firing Assholes!
Romans, be it your duty to rule the nations with imperial sway … to impose the rule of peace, to spare the humbled and crush the proud.
Charlie Brown mentions those as well, do we take him seriously?
A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
by iiowyn on Aug 20, 2009 4:27 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
it just means that WAMMA wants to get in bed with strikeforce dream and EA...
i doubt that they will though..
by Anton Tabuena on Aug 21, 2009 3:15 AM EDT up reply actions
I think it means we should take DREAM, Strikeforce, M-1 and EA Sports less seriously.
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by Richard Wade on Aug 20, 2009 6:19 PM EDT up reply actions 7 recs
Yea I noticed that, it sounds like they have finally decided to stop even pretending that they are an unbiased organization with an obvious agenda.
by who me on Aug 20, 2009 7:28 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
Thank god!! I was afraid MMA was going to fall into utter chaos without their guidance.
by thekiltedwonder on Aug 20, 2009 4:34 PM EDT reply actions
Oh I'm so glad!
I felt like my MMA was completely lacking legitimacy the past month or two.
by MauiPimpin on Aug 20, 2009 7:05 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs
wamma is irrelvant
they will never be for real
I will take them seriously when they have a non-silly belt.
A wise man told me don't argue with fools
Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who
Expect an incoming post with updated WAMMA rankings with Gegard Mousasi at #2 in the “Heavyweight Exhibition” category.
by Stanlee on Aug 21, 2009 8:54 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I don't really care about WAMMA
Either way, but I wonder if people reporting its demise are going to retract and apologize. I won’t be holding my breath.
LOL you
are funny….wait a second. You are being serious. LMAO
by Riney on Aug 21, 2009 11:32 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
What I am wondering is when will WAMMA apologize for still being alive?
by who me on Aug 21, 2009 5:22 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Also
Can anyone explain why WAMMA is so hated around here? If they fail to accomplish what they are setting out to accomplish (which certainly looks likely), nothing happens at all. If they succeed, it’s good for the sport.
They are bald faced lying parasites who had their CFO Lawyer threaten the writer of a satiric fanpost on here.
A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
by iiowyn on Aug 21, 2009 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Because they claim they want to do all these great things for the sport but they are only around when there is a chance to get their hand in on leeching some money from someone.
WAMMA CEO Dave Szady is a well respected man with a great resume(outside of MMA) for disputing guys like Assemblyman Bob Reilly from New York who is trying to keep MMA from being legalized in New York. If WAMMA and their CEO Dave Szady was serious about their claims of wanting to support and promote the sport of MMA he would have been front and center debating Bob Reilly with all his ridiculous claims. WAMMA CEO Dave Szady should have WAMMA all over the legalization process in New York and other places but that isn’t the case. That tells me all I need to know about how valid WAMMA’s claims of wanting to support and promote the sport of MMA are.
Just BE.
well…if they succeed it is absolutely NOT good for the sport is part one. I’d say read through the links on THIS article to see our history with WAMMA.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Aug 21, 2009 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions
They want to do to MMA what the WBO, IBF, WBA, and WBC have done to boxing.
And fuck them, that’s why.
Keep firing Assholes!
Romans, be it your duty to rule the nations with imperial sway … to impose the rule of peace, to spare the humbled and crush the proud.
Sanctioning bodies have done a lot of good for boxing. The problem is that there are too damned many of them. Letting the promoters decide who the champions and contenders are is a recipe for illegitimacy.
Sanctioning bodies on the whole do more harm than good to boxing. WAMMA already established that they don’t exist to name the best fighters as champions…When you disregard the company with the top fighters from being “champions” for your sanctioning body, you are agreeing that you’re not around for any reason other than to find a way to make money…not for the good of the sport.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Aug 21, 2009 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions
Well, most people hate them because their basic business plan is to simply attach some sort of major sponsor to the belts, to make a bunch of money. They really have no aspirations to bring any good to the sport.
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by Leland Roling on Aug 21, 2009 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions
WAMMA can’t even keep their own staff believing in their crap.
by who me on Aug 21, 2009 5:40 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ah
OK, that makes sense. I mean, the part about them being overly litigious.
I am the president, chairman, CEO, treasurer of the newly created Bubba’s Association of Mixed Martial Arts Crappers or BAMMAC. The only universally recognized, overseeing, sanctioning body of MMA crappers. Our mission, to objectively rank and crown the one, true, champion of MMA crappers in their respective crap weight classes. To uphold the integrity, legitimacy, prosperity and stench of the MMA crappers. So if you are a stanky MMA practitioner, show us your shit and have it weighed. If you take this seriously, you are already a BAMMAC Champion. Donations can be made to BE.
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