Often, during infamously long winded tirades, much like my unedited writing style, on Pro Wrestling message boards and personal phone calls, I’m accused by friends of caring more about the way Pro Wrestling is covered and encapsulated then I am about the product the average person watches on TV. The truth is, long ago I became much more interested in the behind the scenes human drama of promotions like (now defunct) WCW and WWE, and eventually, about how that information was dispersed by various sources.
The same has become true of my MMA consumption over the last half year, as this new sport’s media grows and gets a sense of itself and what the boundaries of fandom and journalistic integrity entail. As I have a quota of mentioning in each writing, MMA and Pro Wrestling converge and diverge on a daily basis, as they have since the early 1990s, and really long before (see Inoki, Antonio).
Dave Meltzer, he of the long winded rambling speak (our common bond), signed yesterday with Yahoo Sports for their MMA section. Meltzer, formerly of the LA Times and most recently FOX Sports.com, is the foremost journalist in Pro Wrestling. His newsletter is the bible of that genre, and the bridge between wrestling and Mixed Martial Arts. He’s been defending and explaining his position since 1993.
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