Comments on: WEC 47: What We Learned, and What’s Next http://www.total-mma.com/2010/03/13/wec-47/ Completing the perspective on Mixed Martial Arts Tue, 22 May 2012 07:32:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jacob Lawton http://www.total-mma.com/2010/03/13/wec-47/#comment-48360 Jacob Lawton Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:09:14 +0000 http://www.total-mma.com/?p=756#comment-48360 Yeah, I can agree with Quandros on that. It's great for the hardcore fans, but for getting new fans into it all? Less good. Stick to what works/and is exciting. Once again, hardcore fans love matwork, casuals... less so. WEC's probably building it's roster along those lines. Commercials cut into the time Versus can take to build up it's fighter's personailty. Outside of Faber, Puler and sort of Cerrone, there's no-one who really leaps out the screen and grabs my attention. Yeah, I can agree with Quandros on that. It’s great for the hardcore fans, but for getting new fans into it all? Less good.

Stick to what works/and is exciting. Once again, hardcore fans love matwork, casuals… less so. WEC’s probably building it’s roster along those lines.

Commercials cut into the time Versus can take to build up it’s fighter’s personailty. Outside of Faber, Puler and sort of Cerrone, there’s no-one who really leaps out the screen and grabs my attention.

]]> By: Tommy Hackett http://www.total-mma.com/2010/03/13/wec-47/#comment-48205 Tommy Hackett Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:16:06 +0000 http://www.total-mma.com/?p=756#comment-48205 What came to mind watching this show and reading your idea of a "coverage crossroads" was something that may be a bigger problem with MMA today. Stephen Quadros' described MMA's evolution as possibly a bad thing a few years back -- how we went from style vs style, and an assortment of characters, to now, with all the fighters seemingly fighting -- and even dressing and acting -- identically. Javi's jiu-jitsu clinic seemed the only break from the "wrestling base / ground-and-pound with a little Muay Thai to set it up" style. WEC is almost completely strong bell-to-bell action like that, which is great for us, but I'm not sure it's really a formula for success. I know I could use a little human interest angle here and there... some talk about the ringwalk music, anything. Still, I enjoy these WEC shows a lot. I don't think their PPV is going to do well at all and I don't blame anyone for thinking it shouldn't be a pay event. I couldn't justify Couture/Coleman on PPV for that matter. What came to mind watching this show and reading your idea of a “coverage crossroads” was something that may be a bigger problem with MMA today. Stephen Quadros’ described MMA’s evolution as possibly a bad thing a few years back — how we went from style vs style, and an assortment of characters, to now, with all the fighters seemingly fighting — and even dressing and acting — identically.

Javi’s jiu-jitsu clinic seemed the only break from the “wrestling base / ground-and-pound with a little Muay Thai to set it up” style.

WEC is almost completely strong bell-to-bell action like that, which is great for us, but I’m not sure it’s really a formula for success. I know I could use a little human interest angle here and there… some talk about the ringwalk music, anything.

Still, I enjoy these WEC shows a lot. I don’t think their PPV is going to do well at all and I don’t blame anyone for thinking it shouldn’t be a pay event. I couldn’t justify Couture/Coleman on PPV for that matter.

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