Comments on: Where’s WAMMA?

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:53:55 +0000

The female rankings was a good idea, but could someone tell me why WAMMA hasnt updated the men’s rankings in over two months?

Is it because of the fact that Machida, GSP and Brown all beat the #2 contenders and now dont know if they can declare a champ or not. This organization seems to just be lost.

By: Yael Grauer

Yael Grauer — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:07:54 +0000

I would totally leak the details if I had them, but the sleiu of press releases and explanations are cryptic at best and only cite “disagreements with management” or something of that nature. I do know that part of the problem was financial; that although WAMMA had some serious cash from private investors they were extremely hesitant to spend any of it to built up the organization.

I really could care less about the male rankings for WAMMA-rankings are a dime a dozen for men’s MMA… but I thought female rankings had some serious potential for helping legitimize women’s MMA. It’s a shame, really, that WAMMA seems to have all but fizzled before it really had a whole lot of impact.

By: Matt C.

Matt C. — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:28:04 +0000

If Pat Miletich won’t go on the record and give an explanation can someone leak the details so that everyone can know the reason?

I do agree the idea had great potential. However the one thing they focused on was their official rankings and from that trying to make money off their belts. To me there will always be credibility problems when subjective official rankings are being used to try and make matches. Just like this article pointed out with Arlovski moving up in the rankings when it was evident he was the next opponent for Fedor. I think trying to implement match making based on official rankings only leads to the necessity of manipulating the rankings to get them to say what makes the most sense financially.

By: curtis

curtis — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:42:55 +0000

It was such a great idea, but for it to work they have to have everyone on board…

Could you imagine if the BCS left out Ohio State, USC, and Penn State?

What if the NCAA’s didn’t rank ACC teams?

Just wouldn’t work…..

By: ironman

ironman — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:37:57 +0000

They’re not going to go on the record and bash WAMMA any more than they already have. As much as I would love Pat (more than Sam) to come out and make a strong statement on the subject, he’s not going to. Oh well.

By: Matt C.

Matt C. — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:03:10 +0000

I normally go on long-winded rants about my dislikes of WAMMA after every article I read about them but not this time. Keep this kind of stuff coming. Very nice article.

Well one thing I do have a problem with is that Sam Caplan and Pat Miletich especially asked us to believe in WAMMA because they did. Now that those two have left I think they owe us an explanation on why they are no longer a part of what they were asking us to support and believe in.