Regarding the Brock Lesnar in WWE Posts

This is why I like working here.

Brock Lesnar was a beast in WWE and Brent is right. Lesnar had to build credibility in the WWE and worked his way to the top to become a marketable guy. It doesn’t work for everyone. Right, Bobby Lashley?

People who complain about the content of a website with tons of other options and pieces to read daily, simply because it involves a particular aspect of a person’s background they’re not fond of need to check themselves (before they wreck themselves).

Brock Lesnar was the face of the WWE, and it contributed greatly to his ability to draw well in MMA. I’m not sure why it’s so hard for some people to look at it like a “before they were famous” piece, discussing what Lesnar was up to before striking gold in MMA. Considering how wild his career was, it makes for a good read.

That is, if you’re not some whiny ass on the internet.

Who was saying this crap? Why does that set them off? It’s a damn post people, fucking deal with it.

And for the record, I actually like Roth’s articles.

I used to follow WWE and prowrestling when I was younger.

Roth’s Lesnar’s WWE posts have been for me a walk down memory lane.

I should point out, I personally don’t mind posts like that, or even Brent’s odd boxing related posts since both are combat sport related

(before anyone jumps on me, majority of pro-wrestlers come from a collegite wrestling background, so my point stands)

Yeah, I’m that guy.

I remember him in me early 30s being a monster in WWE, and saw a live show or two he did. When he decided to go to UFC, I decided to give it a try. I vaguely remembered seeing a VHS of UFC 1, and figured it was worth another shot.

I started with TUF 9, and watched as many UFC Unleashed episodes as I could.I discovered other guys who wrestled in college, and when Hendo put down Bisping with that mighty right hand, I screamed at my TV like I’ve never screamed during a NFL or MLB game. When Brock put the fists to Mir’s face using a variation of a half-nelson, I was hooked.

So, blame me. I’m that guy. WWE led me to UFC.

Like I said in the other thread, as long as it’s not overdone and relates to MMA I see no reason to spaz out about it.

I did have an issue with the “When can an MMA fighter get a pop like this?” article after CM Punk was at Wrestlemania or whatever. Like you said Lesnar’s time in the WWE is pretty much what made him who he is. It is also what gave the UFC A LOT of it’s current popularity.

there was that guy with the long name… but he commented very actively thats true :)

I agree with you and normally this should be the case, don’t read something you don’t want to ,but there are people who like to get angry on stuff and thats why they like to come to comment to do a riot or i dunno :)

and you too, Brookhouse!

…jk. you’re alright.

Get.Fucked.

…against pro wrestling from a segment of UFC/MMA fans was weird.

They are almost exactly the same, when it comes to sports entertainment.

The only real difference, and I acknowledge that it is a big difference, is that the matches in pro wrestling were scripted and in MMA they are real.

I was never a pro wrestling fan. My parents deprived me of television when I was a kid and by the time I could watch whatever I wanted (around 13), wrestling had been debunked and I could never get into it knowing it was fake.

My exposure to it through MMA has only led me to have great respect for pro wrestling, not disdain. I’m surprised more people don’t feel the same way.

I skipped the Zach Gowen article because there were other articles that appealed more to me (and because I was busy with Civil War stuff) and I really, really, really, really can’t understand why anyone else who isn’t interested in pro wrestling didn’t do the same.

Add to this the fact that Lesnar has next to no MMA fights and a huge part of his name was built from pro wrestling, it makes no sense to complain about the coverage.

As long as the pro wrassling stuff has something to do with PPV models, similar usage of hype or something along those lines, I’ll read it. As long as the writers on here write about what they feel like without neglecting important stories I’ll support them. Don’t see how anyone has the right to complain about a small set of articles, much less in this case where it’s actually completely relevant.

combined with the utter lack of creativity in WWE or TNA and how aweosome frequent the UFC ran it made getting into it easy. Never really was a sports fan prior to this.

Also sights like BE sherdog and others helped because if it weren’t for the online community i wouldn’t have been a mma fan

But I see no problem with these posts and I’m glad Matt is doing them. Frankly, it’s awesome for MMA fans to know these things.

Non-wrestling fans might not realize that Brock’s run in the WWE lasted less than two years. TWO YEARS. It’s not like he was some tenured wrestling star looking to make the jump to MMA. I have undigested meat that’s been in my stomach for longer than Brock’s WWE career was.

Brent is spot on saying that Brock’s WWE status made him and instant MMA star and these pieces illustrate that greatly.

After all, we clearly don’t know what we’re doing when community participation is at an all time high and we’ve set records for traffic this month.

Really nice to see BE setting traffic records. Couldn’t happen to a better group of writers!

That said, having fun with it with peole who do watch it and are game to also have fun is awesome, and I dig the Lesnar WWE retrospectives.

Some folk just have to grow the fuck up.

I keep missing out on the fun.

Honestly I’m probably in the vast minority here, but I’ve always considered pro-wrestling a combat sport. Sure it is scripted and has a predetermined winner, but it is no less athletic or dangerous.

Obviously it is bottom tier compared to any other combat sport, but I just really don’t see why some MMA fans get so bent out of shape when it is brought into topics.

Which is why I skipped over the articles. Its not like they are tricks or bad journalism or has mistakes. To go in and complain about it just seems needlessly antagonistic to me.

NOW you have a real reason to hate him & his WWE past

that the banhammer farted on a few individuals who were getting far too whiny and personal to people. Tempbans are a healthy thing for some people it seems cough

I’ve loved the posts. they amuse me because I look back and think “I used to devote week nights to THIS?”. I do think its funny that none of the “haterz” have posted on this thread. Ban them all!

Being an MMA fan can be a source of insecurity. Friends of mine who are happy to watch Marvin Harrison attempt to decapitate Colt McCoy in super slo-mo to catch the moment he loses consciousness think that I’m into brutal human cockfighting.

I think a lot of MMA fans spend an awful lot of time arguing to strangers and acquaintances for the legitimacy in the sport, and I think that why some folks are touchy about the (indisputable) links between MMA and pro wrestling.

I personally don’t care all that much. I think I last paid attention to pro wrestling before much of the BE commentariat was even born, when Jimmy Superfly Snooka and Hacksaw Jim Duggan were doing their thing. I hadn’t realized they had skinny one-legged guys wrestling now, so I guess that was educational.

I’m not really defending the “slow news day” crowd, but I do sort of get the source of the agitation.

I watched some of the Brock videos and reflected on how I haven’t followed pro-wrestling in over ten years, then I felt really old and by virtue of that unsuccessful so I sort of regretted it.

I’ve gotta be in the vast minority of people who love Brock Lesnar but dislike Pro Wrestling. Hell, even at UFC 100 I wanted Frank Mir to tear his leg off. But then Brock sorta became the real person he is and not the actor he was so used to being. The tides turned. Long story short, Pro Wrestling is the reason Brock is as popular as he is today. Hypothetical situation: if Brock Lesnar never enters MMA, is the UFC as successful as they are today? Answer: fuck no. Do they even have a deal with Fox? I’d say almost definitely not.

Can’t there be a thread that has the Ban Hammer Hall of Fame® with a list of former members’ names and the post that got each 86’d? It would be a tremendous learning opportunity for new members as well as kind of funny (in some cases).

I dont understand the problem. Brent and Matt are smart enough to know that there will always be some “why the fuk is this on my mma site?” comments when they post an article about boxing or pro wrassling,yet they always reply with their quit crying gifs. Whats the point? Let it go,just cuz it got rec’d 3 times doesnt mean that everyone agrees. That guy Alpha was able to troll the shit out of that article because Roth and Burke kept up with him.

Mayweather getting 90 days was relevant news to me, and i enjoyed reading about Overeems k1 run. I might not be interested in pro wrestling, but it is certainly reasonable to post a couple pre-Ufc brock articles. While I wasnt surprised when i read the complaints about the Mayweather article in the comments (since they always complain), the WWE one-legged guy getting beat up article I 100 percent expected to get shitted on in the thread. I mean seriously… wtf was the point of that one anyway? I honestly dont see how that article was informative regarding brocks star power or athletic ability.

This site is built on its community, people have long-ass debates in the comment threads and others either get involved or keep scrolling down to read more. The writers also get involved and that motivates people to comment even more. But every now and then, yall get too damn sensitive

would totaly smash cyborg

because all fighters would love to earn so much money as him, amyn many of them have expressed their desire on doing that :) Mayweather may be a Billionaire now so it may suck to be in prison for the charge of domestic violence which is simply disgusting.

Just like pro wrestling itself I find posts about it as an interesting “social experiment”, so to say.
Generally, watching you people pop your blood vessels over some stupid shit is interesting.

Fuck everyone.