Good news to some, bad news to others - Gus Johnson is likely staying in the MMA game. MMAFighting is reporting that Johnson has signed a deal with Fox Sports, but his Showtime combat sports deal was completely separate from his CBS deal:
"Last week it was revealed that Gus Johnson's contract with CBS had expired, and on Tuesday morning it was reported that Johnson has accepted a job at Fox. But that doesn't mean he's done as the voice of mixed martial arts on Showtime, the sister network of CBS.
Sources told MMAFighting.com that Johnson's contract with CBS was for basketball and football, and that his deal to call fights (both MMA and boxing) for Showtime was a separate contract. That contract is still in effect, and Johnson will call Saturday night's Andre Ward-Arthur Abraham boxing match for Showtime. Although Showtime hasn't yet announced who will broadcast its next MMA show (a June 18 Strikeforce card), Johnson is expected to call that event as well."
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by milk72 on May 10, 2011 8:35 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs
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So why did you think it was “unlikely” he would continue working for Showtime Sports when it was pretty clear that the gig is separate from his former duties on CBS? Just wishful thinking?
What gave anyone any indication that the deal was separate? No one reported that until today.
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CBS Sports and Showtime Sports are different shops with their own original programming for different sports. And Gus was employed for CBS for years before he ever signed with Showtime. But getting back to my question… why’d you think it was unlikely he would continue with his Showtime duties?
He crossed back and forth doing MMA. What made me think it was unlikely was other people reporting that they believed it was unlikely. My bad. I was wrong.
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It’s cool, I’m not trying to make you feel guilty about a small mistake or anything. I was genuinely curious where this idea started is all.
Looks like Michael David Smith is the culprit, who also made the ridiculous claim that “Petruzelli-Kimbo was just one mediocre fighter beating another, and a broadcaster with more experience in MMA would have known that.”
I’m pretty sure if Mike Goldberg or any other experienced MMA commentator was calling that fight, they would have done their best to sell the moment and flip the fuck out as well.
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Good news to some….
some named Johnson?! Who is this good for? I demand a recount
Me watching a Gus Johnson broadcast:
And then after….
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by RolloTomasi on May 10, 2011 11:56 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs
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by James Brady on May 11, 2011 1:50 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
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by James Brady on May 11, 2011 1:51 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs
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by Yxas on May 11, 2011 3:50 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
hate to hear this news over the radio while driving
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by vivero on May 11, 2011 4:36 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs
Discrepency.
It’s funny most consider him a decent to pretty good (if excitable) basketball/football announcer. However consensus is that he is a terrible MMA announcer. What do you guys think the difference is. Lack of knowledge about MMA?
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by Grappo on May 11, 2011 6:16 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs
Damn, gotta get on my droid to see half the hate in here...
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![Gus Johnson calls Cage Potato editor Mike Russell, in response an email Russell sent to Scott Coker, in which he questioned Johnson's MMA commentating abilities:
"Scott Coker forwarded me your email. Where do you get off saying that to my boss? Writing it on your website is one thing, but you contacted my boss to ask him about it," a growingly more aggressive version of the man pictured above asserted. "Now it's personal and you need to be accountable."
"Do you even train? If you’re as credible of a journalist as you say you are, you can’t take the opinions of people on the Internet to heart, without talking to somebody who knows what they’re talking about — me included. I take jiu-jitsu three times a week. I know the difference between a kimura, an armbar, a reverse armbar and an Americana from side control, because I study it," he asserted. "As far as people saying that I damaged the image of the sport because of what I said about the shit that went down Saturday night, if anything, it was me trying to make an excuse for these idiots going out on national television and pulling what they did after the card was over. It’s obvious that it happens. People don't need to hear it from me to know that it happens. We've all seen it. I state the obvious, and that’s obvious."
I take a lot of criticism, but I try my best to try to help promote this fucking sport, when nobody else, including television executives could give two shits because they think it’s barbaric and it’s filled with a bunch of hoodlums, which is exactly how it looked to everyone watching the show Saturday night. I don’t really care about the 'growing opinion', because there’s another side that isn’t going to feel that way [about me]," Johnson explained. "There are certain messageboards and websites where people don’t feel that way at all. The problem with MMA is that these Internet guys ruin the sport because they’re negative 90 percent of the time. I’ve looked at them. if we give everyone a voice, we wouldn’t get anything accomplished. I try to say as many good things about these athletes in this sport on a network level — not on an underground level or a Spike TV cable level or a pay-per-view level. This is actual television and nobody knows if they’re going to pull the plug on this thing. If that happens, then everyone will lose money."
"My job isn't to promote the sport. I’m paid to give my opinion and to describe what I see and it’s my opinion that the guys they had Jake fight were supposed to beat him. That's how I see it. I said it, so I believe it. That’s disrespect. Do you mean to tell me that Strikeforce didn’t bring a former Pride champion [like] Dan Henderson in to beat Jake Shields? Come on, man. I'm also not blaming Miller for what happened," he said. "Mayhem didn’t do anything that Shane Mosely hasn’t done, or other fighters who aren’t a part of the main event of the card who get in the cage or the ring to hype a future fight haven't done hundreds of times before. Floyd Mayweather wins a fight and Shane Mosley comes into the ring as soon as it’s over and asks when you gonna give me a fight, man? It always happens. That’s not a big deal. The reaction from Gilbert and Jake and all these guys was what was the big deal. It was improper, and to be honest, it was shameful."
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