Bodog Fight Commentary from the Web

January 3, 2007

Well it would appear that smoe MMA fans are coming out on the Bodog Fight installments that have run and are planned. Since we are quite enlightened over at the haus we are not going to weigh in on this one. We’d rather let others do this, much like Switzerland, we’re neutral.

From CageSideLive on MySpace

Bodog fights: I’m all for more MMA. I think the world needs as much good MMA as it can get. All of that said, did anyone really think, “I really want to watch that other MMA reality show, you know the one where the guy doesn’t get the UFC contract? That one on the channel I never heard of!” Even the most hardcore MMA fans I talked to didn’t watch the show. This is no criticism of any of the Bodog fighters, but I never knew who they were anyway. For all I know the really are the best up and coming fighters. Maybe they are guys I’ve actually heard of. Maybe. My friends didn’t tell me who was actually fighting. Bodog didn’t bother to tell us who they were either. They didn’t think we needed to know. The company just bought ads and said it was a Mixed Martial Arts reality show, and it was on some network no one had ever heard of. They figured that it since it was Mixed Martial Arts and Reality TV, it was guaranteed. That’s what got people to watch the Ultimate Fighter. Names like Couture, Liddell, Ortiz, Shamrock, Franklin, and Hughes had nothing to do with it. The commercials showed fighters standing on rocks working the Muay Thai pads or shadowboxing. I’m sure the logic was simple. “Everything’s more compelling on rocks. They’ll all watch!” I think they even had a Pay Per View where the guys who won got to fight members of the Russian Red Devil Fight Club, ones not named Emilianenko. I think. Don’t write and tell me. At this point, who cares?

We’ll keep taking the feedback from these unique events. Even if they are luke warm in their reception, I mean the world needs more badly acted infomercials. Doesn’t it?

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