SMG: An interview with Kevin Iole

[henryhenry]

the leznar-couture 'ko' had an awful odor.

no clean power punch.

couture went down on a phantom kick.

leznar knelt down and pounded with the side of his fist.

ref stopped it instantly.

it's pro wrestling, all over again.

 

[Twoback]

Sports Media Guide talks with Yahoo! Sports boxing and mixed martial arts writer Kevin Iole.

Iole says: "My job is to deliver personal and personality insights into my sports, which are the most individual sports compared to others out there. They are made up of very unique individuals. I don't get caught up in who has the best look hook or who is the better body puncher. I'd rather tell how they got there and who and what they are. That's what I do – I find out things and write about people who are putting their lives on the line to making a living."

http://www.sportsmediaguide.com/smg.asp

Is anybody having luck with this link?

 

[GB-Hack]

Sports Media Guide talks with Yahoo! Sports boxing and mixed martial arts writer Kevin Iole.

Iole says: "My job is to deliver personal and personality insights into my sports, which are the most individual sports compared to others out there. They are made up of very unique individuals. I don't get caught up in who has the best look hook or who is the better body puncher. I'd rather tell how they got there and who and what they are. That's what I do – I find out things and write about people who are putting their lives on the line to making a living."

http://www.sportsmediaguide.com/smg.asp

Is anybody having luck with this link?

It's telling me I need to log in.

 

[playthrough]

Damn. Didn't expect to see a year-and-a-half thread on MMA coverage bumped.

FW (and Playthrough), I respect your viewpoints. But I still say--ESPECIALLY in this day and age--that you forget the niche sports and try to hang on by your friggin fingernails to provide decent coverage of the sports your readership (which is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay beyond the MMA target demos) enjoys...before the bastardly beancounters cut those beats, too.

And with the way the industry is, here's betting any newspaper coverage of MMA is gone in 12 months. At the very, very most.

Good heavens, I forgot what my viewpoints were.

On a side note, I was in Ontario, Calif., this past weekend for work and wanted some wings on Sat. night. Looked up the local Hooters. Got there and the wait for tables was two hours. WTF, at a Hooters? Then I noticed all the TVs were tuned to UFC.

 

[Twoback]

You sure you wanted wings?

 

[playthrough]

I got carry out, dammit!

 

[fishwrapper]

I got carry out, dammit!

The wings, right?

 

[Birdscribe]

I got carry out, dammit!

And that's a bad Hooters, PT.

Not that there are good ones, but speaking from experience, the service there is horrible. Bad food, bad service and a two-hour wait is no way to go through a Saturday night at an area with lots of good restaurants around, PT.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

And the betting market for MMA is high, wide and handsome.

Indeed . . . somewhere, Blinky Palermo and Boo Boo Hoff are smiling.

 

[anonymousprick]

momentarily depart from the 'coverage' issue:

the real problem with MMA as a 'sport' is that it's dull.
few clean punches. lots of grappling on the ground.
and its relatively devoid of toughness and grit.

these super-macho guys actually 'submit' - which is to say, they quit. roberto duran's career was tainted when he quit - no mas - just once. these MMA guys quit - 'submit' - all the time, and nobody thinks it at all dishonorable. i don't get it.

boxers, in a good 10-round bout, give and take more solid blows than MMA guys in a career.

ask yourself why no MMA champion ever will be a global icon like Ali: because there is a dignity and universal manhood expressed by boxing. what does MMA express? empty theatricality? useless and dubious martial techniques? (anybody with a gun or lead pipe will make the best MMA guy 'submit')

and these MMA guys, with their tatoos and fierce visages and macho posturing - whoa - straight out of a video game. a National Lampoon parody of Mulletville, USA.

the leznar-couture 'ko' had an awful odor.

no clean power punch.

couture went down on a phantom kick.

leznar knelt down and pounded with the side of his fist.

ref stopped it instantly.

it's pro wrestling, all over again.

I suppose if one ignores the 30 or so punches followed by about a half-dozen elbows, one could call the ref stoppage "instant."

 

[John Drama]

momentarily depart from the 'coverage' issue:

the real problem with MMA as a 'sport' is that it's dull.
few clean punches. lots of grappling on the ground.
and its relatively devoid of toughness and grit.

these super-macho guys actually 'submit' - which is to say, they quit. roberto duran's career was tainted when he quit - no mas - just once. these MMA guys quit - 'submit' - all the time, and nobody thinks it at all dishonorable. i don't get it.

boxers, in a good 10-round bout, give and take more solid blows than MMA guys in a career.

ask yourself why no MMA champion ever will be a global icon like Ali: because there is a dignity and universal manhood expressed by boxing. what does MMA express? empty theatricality? useless and dubious martial techniques? (anybody with a gun or lead pipe will make the best MMA guy 'submit')

and these MMA guys, with their tatoos and fierce visages and macho posturing - whoa - straight out of a video game. a National Lampoon parody of Mulletville, USA.

That is just ignorant.

I think you're just baiting people with a post like that because it is so over-the-top ridiculous. But, I did fall for it and posted a reply, so, bravo. Well played.

 

[Editude]

Many sports bars here charge admission on big UFC nights.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Somebody dug this thread back up just to say "Ha-ha" ... really!?!

 

[BYH]

Damn. Didn't expect to see a year-and-a-half thread on MMA coverage bumped.

FW (and Playthrough), I respect your viewpoints. But I still say--ESPECIALLY in this day and age--that you forget the niche sports and try to hang on by your friggin fingernails to provide decent coverage of the sports your readership (which is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay beyond the MMA target demos) enjoys...before the bastardly beancounters cut those beats, too.

And with the way the industry is, here's betting any newspaper coverage of MMA is gone in 12 months. At the very, very most.

Good heavens, I forgot what my viewpoints were.

Trust me. I had too.