Happy Fifth Birthday Bloody Elbow
by Nate Wilcox on Feb 15, 2012 3:28 PM EST
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Welcome to Bloody Elbow -- Let's Get it On
My friends at SB Nation are justifiably proud of their network of sports blogs, but I've been harping on the glaring, gaping bloody hole in their coverage -- the fastest growing sport in the land, Mixed Martial Arts.
Well it's put up or shut up time because they have given me a blog.
It's an awesome responsibility to cover MMA for SB Nation and I'll do my best to not let down the sport or the warriors who participate in it.
I've been a rabid fan of mixed martial arts since I saw UFC 6 live on pay per view way back in the day.
I lost track a little bit around 2000-2001 -- the "dark ages" of the sport -- when you couldn't even see the events on PPV.
But I've been as obsessed as ever the last couple of years and want to invite everyone to join in the conversation.
The scoop blogging platform is the most powerful community blogging software in the world, I think fight fans will like it.
War MMA!
I brought Luke Thomas on later that month. I never could have imagined the course of history from there. Thanks everybody!
The FanPosts are solely the subjective opinions of Bloody Elbow readers and do not necessarily reflect the views of Bloody Elbow editors or staff.
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Man, I wish I could remember exactly when I came on board but it wasn’t too late into 2007. Fuck…it’s been a long time.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 15, 2012 3:30 PM EST reply actions
My first interaction was a fanpost in 2010 correcting Kid Nate on half-nelsons
Pretty sure it was 2010
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Ha! Beat you to it...
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2012/2/15/2799418/happy-bloody-birthday :)
Best wishes for your site Nate
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by wonderfulspam on Feb 16, 2012 12:08 AM EST up reply actions 6 recs
Does it make you happy
that someone beat you to making this post?
yeah it does
was what I dreamt of when I started the site and had to make up fake user names and comment on my own posts.
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by Nate Wilcox on Feb 15, 2012 5:30 PM EST up reply actions 17 recs
Nid Kate: “Your site is totally awesome and I agree with almost all your points here, love kate.”
It's just a world, it's just a life.
Any mistakes?
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My picks, much like Anderson, absolutely suck.
by BROCKLESNAR!!!!! on Feb 16, 2012 3:22 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Thanks Nate
The UFC should be thanking you too.
Police have mounted a Phuket-wide hunt
by warren305 on Feb 15, 2012 3:38 PM EST reply actions 4 recs
You've put together a great resource here
I spent 5 years putting up with Sherdog’s hit and miss content before I found BE.
The Judo Chops alone inspired me to become a writer, the sheer range of fan content is brilliant.
Happy Birthday BE from a noobie.
Yeah, they do a great job of rounding up pertinent news, and doing good analysis & editorials here.
The discussion is also so, so much better than Sherdog (I started there as well)
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 15, 2012 5:36 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, they're pretty damn bad.
The best discussion you can ever get is on the niche sub- forums, like the grappling forum. And conversations are so hard to track on SD compared to SBN.
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 15, 2012 7:41 PM EST up reply actions
Hm? Best discussion you can get anywhere on grappling is over on InStrength.
Or the old MMA.tv forums if you can get the black belts roused enough to pay attention. Silverback (Karel Pravec) is one of those.
Twitter: @DefGrappler
InStrength dot com.
I do like InStrength.
I meant the best discussion you could get on Sherdog was in the sub- forums like Grappling.
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 16, 2012 1:20 AM EST up reply actions
great job nate
this site and the community has really helped me get into the sport. you sure aren’t going to get it from the more mainstream sports outlets.
I wouldn't be half the fan I am today
Without the news, editorials, other articles, and general community that BE provides. I’m sure a lot of us can say the same. Thanks.
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by BROCKLESNAR!!!!! on Feb 15, 2012 5:15 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
This^
I’ve become much more informed as a fan, and Kid Nate and Luke Thomas are to blame.
thanks!
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Thanks again Nate!
I love this place and the great community of commentators you’ve built.
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by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 15, 2012 5:34 PM EST reply actions
Fifth anniversary - wood or silverware
let’s go with wood
This is an oule.
by some schmuck in texas on Feb 15, 2012 5:37 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Sick flying V
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Sounds good to me.
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Wow, has it been that long already?
My join date says May 16 2008, but I think that was when BE switched over to the current sports blog format. I checked my email, and it turns out I joined April 20, 2008. WTF. I have wasted my life. Haha. So which of you old bastards are still around?
"You've got Floyd Mayweather making $25 million. He can't stop a double-leg..." Nick Diaz.
Yeah most of us got switched over in May 08. I think I was around in late 07, but I don’t know when exactly.
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You know, I don’t even remember how I found BE. My guess is I came across it in one of my many searches for MMA content.
"You've got Floyd Mayweather making $25 million. He can't stop a double-leg..." Nick Diaz.
I'm here by way of Cage Potato.
They linked to an article on here and it was like a breath of fresh air. No trolls, intelligent conversation, and all the gif and pic posting ability that I could abuse.
aimed at the crotch...
Yeah, the comment section was always really good. I remember back when an article would go up and you would be one of the first few people to post. Now, you come here and the comment sections has usually exploded before you even get to finish the article, haha. Still very good here though, beyond the occasional runaway thread.
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as am I
I quite enjoy it here
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by esquilinho on Feb 15, 2012 8:26 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
I heard about it from a Jordan Breen podcast where Luke Thomas was a guest
And my MMA life has never been the same since. The only other websites I check now are Fightmetric and Sherdog exclusively for the Fight Finder. Everything else is dead to me.
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by Forbidden Psychological Technology on Feb 15, 2012 6:08 PM EST up reply actions
It was the Alistair Overeem growth timeline that brought me to BE
and I never left. When was that originally posted anyway? That was the beginning of my lurkings.
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I always used to see BE pop up whenever I did MMA related searches.
Kid Nate & the team are SEO wizards, they dominate google
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 15, 2012 7:43 PM EST up reply actions
SEO steals the round!
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by wonderfulspam on Feb 16, 2012 12:10 AM EST up reply actions
I found this site from the now-defunct MMA Fever, who would link to "MMA Squabbles", a blog by some upstart names Luke Thomas.
First post I remember was Jeremy Williams’s suicide, back in May ’07.
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by Scott C. Broussard on Feb 15, 2012 7:52 PM EST up reply actions
EASILY
the best MMA site around. Thanks for everything.
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Happy Birthday to the #1 mma site on the fuking internetz!
I went back once to read the very first post. It’s amazing how much this site has grown since then.
Nick Denis is me.
Huge mutherfuking fan of Jon Fitch and Jon Jones.
I’ve been around here for little more than a year, exactly since Dec 03, 2010, and can say that coming to this place has been very amusing, educational, angering, confusing, insulting, and downright incomprehensible, which is why I’m still here.
I still remember having started in Junkie, and then roaming around a lil’ bit the UG and Five Ounces of Pain, and pretty much swearing Sherdog off forever at first sight. I’ve been a fan of MMA for almost 5 years, and I spent 4 of them having to wear an e-hazard suit just so I could find decent conversation.
Thanks for opening this place Nate.
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I lurked for a couple years before joining.
Glad I did.
Happy birthday BE
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by AwkwardwithwordmakingisGoldberg,huhJoe on Feb 15, 2012 6:41 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Still the best meme on BE.
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by Richard Wade on Feb 15, 2012 7:36 PM EST up reply actions
Happy Birthday!
I don’t remember how I found BE at first, but one of the first articles I read was some sort of bet and the loser had to drink a bottle of maple syrup.
I don’t remember who it was, but I do remember thinking “I’m not staying here if this is the sort of content that they put up”.
Glad I stuck with it. BE helped turn me from a casual into a hardcore ufc fan, and now an all round mma fanatic.
I’m still a super lurker but I read BE at least 3 or 4 times a day now.
Thanks to all the writers who have put in the time and effort to make BE what it is today.
My brother told me about BE
I joined August 14th, 2010
A year to the day after District 9 was released in theaters.
I know that because I’m as much of a movie fan as I am an MMA fan.
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Long time without loggin
But I had to congratulate you for this achievement. Happy birthday to my favorite MMA site. Here I learn, laugh and lurk like nowhere else. Thank you.
In the tradition of Kid Nate, in the tradition of Luke Thomas of the D.C. nubs, of Canon Jacques., of Brent Brookhouse, the man who will never die. As the real Nature Boy Richard Wade, upstairs tonight. From the Chris Nelsons, to the Mike Romes, to the…Mike Fagans, I accept this heavyweight title.… Wait a second, I’m Jonathan Snowden. I’m the fat man himself, Tim Burke. This is it tonight, Dad. God, that’s beautiful. And Anton Tabuena, and they can all kiss my ass. Because I am not the man who accepts a torch to be handed down to me from an organization that died…RIP…seven years ago. Cabbage, Matt Roth, is the man who ignites the new flame of the sport of professional wrestling. Tonight, before God and my father is witness, I declare myself, The Roth, as the new Bloody Elbow lead writer! We have set out to change the face of MMA blogging. So tonight, let the new era begin: the era of the sport of professional wrestling, the era of Cabbage, the era of the BElitest.
by Matthew Roth on Feb 15, 2012 7:27 PM EST reply actions 8 recs
Why cabbage?
Where did this come from?
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by Unabomberman on Feb 15, 2012 9:38 PM EST up reply actions
Yours truly.
"I don't know where this term "training camp" in MMA came from. There's no campground. There's no tents." - Nick Diaz
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I still don't understand why cabbage?
Is his face shaped funny? What is it?
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by Unabomberman on Feb 16, 2012 12:51 AM EST up reply actions
From a live thread a while back (first ProElite thread I believe)
Someone brought up that we needed more Cabbage. Burke called Roth “Cabbage”. It stuck.
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Pro wrestling diatribe?
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 16, 2012 1:22 AM EST up reply actions
5 years old eh?
Time to get out of the house and get a job, school supplies aint free punk.
Learn JiuJitsu.
Semper Fi'
Winter is coming.
It's still nice not having to go to Sherdog (or TCM) to discuss MMA.
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by Richard Wade on Feb 15, 2012 7:46 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
That is way too philosophical for me to reply to.
"I want to tell me what you see, let's go ahead and see by the fight, what you saw, in the ring."
by Horselover Fat on Feb 15, 2012 11:14 PM EST up reply actions
happy birthday BE! I’m glad to be part of this community. I’m sure the amount of time I’ve spent here if converted to time from work is probably enough for a few months worth of salary… Totally worth it. Here’s to another five years of potential money well spent.
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by Orcus on Feb 15, 2012 8:14 PM EST via Android app reply actions 1 recs
The key is to do it while at work.
Also happy birthday you crazy crazy website.
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Would you like Freys with that?
But that’s the thing, I usually comment while at work, the problem is that I’m the boss so I’m stealing from myself instead of growing my small business :p
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by Orcus on Feb 15, 2012 8:58 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Happy Birthday to my favorite place on the Internet
and the best bunch of MUTHERFUKERS anywhere.
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by Dave Strummer on Feb 15, 2012 11:01 PM EST reply actions 4 recs
Rec for proper spelling.
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by Richard Wade on Feb 16, 2012 9:45 PM EST up reply actions
I study sociology and was brought here from a soc blog
It was about how the bonus structure was incentivizing fighter behavior. I was also reading about one of the Sociology PhD grad student’s research here and looking for related stuff and found some more BE stuff. I have been infatuated ever since, although keeping up with MUTHERFUKERS is hard goddamned work.
Happy Birthday BE. Thanks for stealing so much of my time. Consider it your B-Day present.
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Thanks to all of you…Even Ro’th
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Ditto.
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by Earl Montclair on Feb 16, 2012 1:23 AM EST reply actions 4 recs
I've been here for exactly half the time this place existed.
Wish I would have found it sooner. Thanks for all of the staff’s hard work, present and past.
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happy b day!!
I used to watch ufc and wouldnt think twice about putting my fatass into a god awful affliction shirt when I started lurking in 2008-2009? this site has turned me into the BROCKLE SNAR of mma, im still relatively new, but im learning more and more everyday, but I still don’t like getting punched in the face, at all. Ever. between the cabbage trainyards, and brookhouse trying to pull boxing to become a legit combat sport, im glad I ended up here
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by OlsonRy on Feb 16, 2012 6:07 AM EST via Android app reply actions
Good job on having a birthday
It is a great site. The Judo chop series really got me hooked.
But I knew it was perfect for me when I read a comment one day slagging off Affliction/Tapout shirts.
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by menckenstein on Feb 16, 2012 8:20 AM EST reply actions 3 recs
Thanks Kid Nate
I’ve been lurking around BE since late ‘08/early ’09, and just recently decided to finally get a user name so I could comment around here. The comment sections are definitely better than every other site I’ve seen, but the combat sports coverage that your staff produces is the best out there. This is definitely my one-stop place for MMA coverage. Keep up the great work!
by Baba Booey on Feb 16, 2012 11:35 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
To the first blog I ever commented on
Happy Birthday.
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If it weren't for BE
I probably wouldn’t like mma as much. Before I found this site I was stuck with the people at Junkie and Sherdog…
if it werent for BE i would probally be running my department..but i wouldnt change it for anything
except a higher salary
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Crazy it's been that long.
I started posting on MMAJunkie back when it was called something else and didn’t suck so bad. They linked to MMAWeekly which linked to here and I never posted there again. I lurked for a long time before I saw that someone was wrong on the internet and I could no longer stand for it.
I love all you MUTHERFUKERS
From Cabbage to Kid Nate, to Psychoblack and that crazy MUTHERFUKER from the North of England. Oh and Ben Saunders. I want knees like yours some day. I will get them one day, I promise you that.
LETS MUTHERFUKERS!!!!!
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