Remember that MMA documentary I was talking about a couple weeks ago? Well it looks like Owned Entertainment has officially finished the filming for MMA Legacy, a documentery-type film on MMA. Some taping occurred at IMMAE, a west-coast MMA expo that was held earlier this month while the majority of the filming took place at American Sports University. Here’s a little bit of the official press release. Check out PressWireMedia.com for the rest.

(PressMediaWire) AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 14th, 2008— Owned Entertainment, Inc.
CEO Eric Alfio, on behalf of Owned Entertainment, Inc., announced today that the company has completed filming on a show set in the world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) with the working title “MMA Legacy”. Principal photography took place in July of this year and wrapped the first week of August. Owned President James Hergott (All That I Need) directed and executive produced the project along with Jason Chambers (MMA Fighter and host of the History Channel’s “Human Weapon”).

I’m pretty excited to see this film as it captures some talented MMA fighters like Eddie Bravo and Din Thomas while also focusing on a slew of up and coming names that we may soon see in EliteXC or WEC. Check out upcoming MMA Legacy news at Owned Entertainment’s website.

Recently I wrote the first installment of my pet peeves about the MMA online scene. It can be found here. Consider this exhibit B to my fighter-writer interview relationship rant.

My newest example is the way many writers jump like fanboys to the defense of fighters whenever the legal system or state athletic commissions make any move where in they just don’t understand the fight game.

I’ll preface this by saying that this particular legal situation is over and charges were dropped. Din Thomas has been cleared, his students no money being officially taken and one of his students being an EMT. But we did not have any of this information the day he was arrested. It’s not that the legal system was completely right in the arrest and charges of Din Thomas in Florida. The Athletic Commission of California certainly wasn’t perfect in handling the case of Sean Sherk. But these fighters were not being persecuted unfairly or randomly and there were reasons in both cases that the stories were at the very least in shades of grey. We do have laws in this country that supersede MMA. We do have rules put together by state commissions for a reason.

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