wamma Stories - Bloody Elbow
M-1 Global Collapse and "Panic" Update
Earlier today I wrote about MDS' report that M-1 Global's infrastructure was collapsing in the wake of Fedor's loss. We then posted M-1's rebuttal to that report. Now MDS has a follow-up report where Evgeni Kogan spins the situation as restructuring. To wit: Kogan acknowledged that four employees...
Snapshot of the Day: WAMMA Reading Light Edition
Tacky, but better reading light than you'd think. And although it took forever to get here, I'm delighted to have this scalp. Back story here.
Good Times, Great Memories - WAMMA Edition
Fightlinker has up this quote from a Sherdog post: I actually chatted with the building manager before heading out. She said the WAMMA folks moved out of the building a couple months ago with everything of value in hand. What’s even more surprising is that she also said that everyone...
Pat Miletich and Sam Caplan Resign From WAMMA
The details from a press release not sent to me but in my inbox nevertheless: PAT MILETICH AND SAM CAPLAN ANNOUNCE THEIR RESIGNATIONS FROM THE WORLD ALLIANCE OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS After serving in prominent positions with the World Alliance of Mixed Martial Arts since its inception 20 months...
Sam Caplan to Remain WAMMA's Vice-President of Fighting Rankings
When the news of Sam Caplan becoming the "interim" Chief Operating Officer of WAMMA broke I reached out to CEO Dave Szady and Vice-President of Fighter & Promoter Relations Pat Miletich to find out if Caplan would remain in his current spot as Vice-President of Fighting Ranking. I just...
Shilling for WAMMA
WAMMA voting committee member Steve Sievert posts on MMA Junkie about WAMMA's claim to have a major corporate sponsor. Check the headline: "WAMMA near credibility-building sponsorship". Apparently in the fun-house mirror world of WAMMA, getting one of the web sites you've co-opted to do a post...
Missing the Point on WAMMA and Rankings
There's been some serious failure to communicate in the whole WAMMA/ESPN vs Bloody Elbow/USA TODAY thing. Fightlinker, gets the point and then dismisses it and wanders off into a comparison of the rankings: I’m not going to disagree that WAMMA’s ranking schism is little more than a...
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