MMA mentioned radio news

dave1982

I think this is huge step for mma,are ordinary people finally accepting it as a sport?

96fm in their sports news said there is mma event in cork.Only bad news about this i hope they don't start reporting UFC/Strikeforce will lead to some seriuos spoilers:rolleyes:

Mellor

To be honest, I'd say that a single announcement like this is far more likely that the DJ, or somebody involved with the radio show is a fan of MMA, or friends with somebody involved somehow.

kainer2

Red FM did several interviews with fighters and CWFC staff in the run-up to Cage Warriors 39: The Uprising. Then covered the weigh-ins too.

cowzerp

The fact that people think this is big shows how small MMA is to be honest, Big deal it got a mention on some nothing show..

theboxingclinic

nothing shows!! red fm and 96fm are the 2 biggest radio stations in cork, i wouldnt call that nothing.
it was also all over the evening echo, even took up the entire back page. this is a step in the right direction and i have to say Ian cage warriors was immense, some show ye put on. look forward to your return.

cowzerp

theboxingclinic wrote: »

nothing shows!! red fm and 96fm are the 2 biggest radio stations in cork, i wouldnt call that nothing. .

i would. in the context it was meant.

theboxingclinic

the evening echo also run full page weekly mma slot which is fantastic for promoting the sport. shows that the sport is being recognised by main stream media. still a long way to go but it is getting there

kainer2

cowzerp wrote: »

i would. in the context it was meant.

Why, in what context was it meant then.

Do Irish shows get that kind of coverage regularly?

The show also resulted it's results and got mentioned in MMA Junkie, MMA Spot, MMA Rising, Sherdog and several other sites. Which is nice for the fighters, especially as a lot of Irish shows don't seem to record their results or get any internet coverage outside of Ireland.

Furthermore we had interviews with the Daily Mirror blog and several other leading UK based and US sites.

This is all a positive step in my humble view, but hey what do i know.

theboxingclinic

what do you know Ian? apparently quite a lot ;-)

Mellor

theboxingclinic wrote: »

nothing shows!! red fm and 96fm are the 2 biggest radio stations in cork, i wouldnt call that nothing.
it was also all over the evening echo,

kainer2 wrote: »

Why, in what context was it meant then.

Do Irish shows get that kind of coverage regularly?

I agree fully with cowzerp (Iain is it?). The fact that people consider a mention in a local newspaper and on local radio to be "a huge step", only highlights the fact that MMa is still largely disregarded in Irish media.

RTE running a 2 or 3 part unbiased MMA documentary, would be a big step. The above is about as big as Joe Duffy ranting about it.

dave1982

Where do ye want it to start,Prime time special or the late late show.It has to start getting into main stream some way.

Sad as it is some people either think its,no rules cage fighting or its WWE.

Rte radio slate it FM 104 slated it and ye all bitched about it.Now it getting mention with the soccer rugby golf horse racing news and it means nothing

Raze_them_all

Rte radio slates it, Ireland hates it, it's getting mentioned on a local radio station, the same way local soccer can be heard on local radio only cork people hear it.

Sid_Justice

dave1982 wrote: »

Where do ye want it to start,Prime time special or the late late show.It has to start getting into main stream some way.

Sad as it is some people either think its,no rules cage fighting or its WWE.

Rte radio slate it FM 104 slated it and ye all bitched about it.Now it getting mention with the soccer rugby golf horse racing news and it means nothing

Aisling Daly was on the Late Late already talking about MMA

John Ferguson

I think that regardless of where it is, the more main stream coverage that Irish MMA gets the better.

I deal with press a lot and it's only now that I am finding it a little bit easier to get non paid for coverage. It is only by reaching out to the press on a local level that will we be able to get to the stage where we get regular national coverage. I was in Cork at the weekend and seen the back page piece in the Echo, it looked bloody good, and you can be rest assured that the sports editors at the national papers DO look at the local rags.

theboxingclinic

its all positive, it would be a lot worse if there was no coverage at all, i just dont undertand the negativity of some people, its as if they would prefer if the sport did not go main stream

kainer2

theboxingclinic wrote: »

its all positive, it would be a lot worse if there was no coverage at all, i just dont undertand the negativity of some people, its as if they would prefer if the sport did not go main stream

I think it's jealousy as the main detractor of this thread runs another show

MMA at this level is all about baby steps, even in the UK it's the same.

I don't think that it's a massive step getting stuff in the local media but it is positive especially when they travel to you to do features. And besides i'm more than happen with the attention this show got Stateside with several high profile websites talking about this event

cowzerp

theboxingclinic wrote: »

its all positive, it would be a lot worse if there was no coverage at all, i just dont undertand the negativity of some people, its as if they would prefer if the sport did not go main stream

Nobody is been negative about it, people are just been straight and honest, as said before its been on the Late Late show so im not going to get all excited that some local cork paper and radio station that only a cork people get have a bit on it.

PS, MMA is fairly mainstream as far as Combat sports go-fighting is just not the in thing in these soft times anymore but may become the big thing when we all get a bit tougher with all the hardship going on..

The point is its been down played here with people all excited about a minor thing.

Raze_them_all

kainer2 wrote: »

I think it's jealousy as the main detractor of this thread runs another show

MMA at this level is all about baby steps, even in the UK it's the same.

I don't think that it's a massive step getting stuff in the local media but it is positive especially when they travel to you to do features. And besides i'm more than happen with the attention this show got Stateside with several high profile websites talking about this event

It has nothing to do with jealousy I can assure you of that.

It's calling it as it is. I'm from kilkenny, I can hear local soccer news all over kilkenny, doesn't mean any of the local teams are heard about anywhere else in Ireland. Yes it's good it's getting coerage but as it's been said ash has been on the late late and on the panel talking about mma which would of been seen by a much larger audience

theboxingclinic

thats right, only cork people would have heard it on cork radio stations, and so it promotes MMA in cork, a county famed for producing top quality athletes but which only had its 1st MMA show in October. so is this great for MMA in Cork? of course it is. if every other local radio station and newspaper covered the other shows as well as this was covered it would be fantastic. i do agree with the jealousy statement, i think the way the comment is written justifies that assumption. its an all too regular occurence on this forum

cowzerp

Who's jealous? and of what?

when i replied i did not even no what show it was in relation too, i simply do not think a minor news piece on MMA is ground breaking and going to blast MMA into the mainstream as it was made out.

If anything the fact people are making a big deal of it makes MMA seem smaller tham it actually is.

Barry.Oglesby

cowzerp wrote: »

If anything the fact people are making a big deal of it makes MMA seem smaller than it actually is.

This.

I think accusations of jealousy are a bit childish. From my own point of view, I get tired of people telling me how big time things are when the reality of what I see on the ground in this country is a whole lot different. If the show had sold 2000 tickets and recieved a news report on the station's sports bulletin that would be different.

MMA has never made the "news" here. It's had PR pieces published in various papers and plugs on radio stations but it's no more mainstream than road bowls or ice sculpting. When it breaks the mainstream media in Ireland it's for shock value or special interest. When something makes the radio it's good PR, and I applaud good PR. Good PR makes the sport blip on other people's radars and that's good.

Ian you're an experienced and respected promoter so I know I'm not telling you anything new. At the moment for me the sport this country is like a column instead of a pyramid. There should be lots of people at the lower levels and a peak towards the top and they should be the pros. Instead, due to the proliferation of shows looking for pro fighters, everyone's a pro and not everyone is capable. So for me, the shows don't match the hype that's built around them.

I'm in no way suggesting that this was the case with Cage Warriors at the weekend, which had a high calibre of fighter on the card, but I'm giving you a bit of context as regards why people might be a bit miffed when hearing yet another story about how big MMA is getting, because we've been hearing it for years without any dent made in the consciousness of the mainstream.

Mellor

Exactly Barry.
Like I said previously, the minor mention is not a big deal.
Calling people jealous for this opinion is rather bizarre. Jealous of what? Of who?

theboxingclinic wrote: »

its all positive, it would be a lot worse if there was no coverage at all, i just dont undertand the negativity of some people, its as if they would prefer if the sport did not go main stream

Where was anything negitive said?
Nobody said it was a bad thing.
Nobody said it would be better off without a mention.

We simple say that its not a big milestone, no huge barrier has been breached.
It's not a huge thing for MMA (as the OP said).
FFS the OP mentioned strikeforce spoilers on the radio :rolleyes:

dave1982

Mellor wrote: »

Exactly Barry.
Like I said previously, the minor mention is not a big deal.
Calling people jealous for this opinion is rather bizarre. Jealous of what? Of who?


Where was anything negitive said?
Nobody said it was a bad thing.
Nobody said it would be better off without a mention.

We simple say that its not a big milestone, no huge barrier has been breached.
It's not a huge thing for MMA (as the OP said).
FFS the OP mentioned strikeforce spoilers on the radio :rolleyes:

Years of no mention whatsoever of MMA,then it is in the sports news.100,000 listeners.And you think its nothing.

Yeah of course they will never mention Strike force results cause its not as cool as the UFC.Surprising you didn't mention anything about me saying UFC results
Why no of mention UFC spoilers????

We better agree to disagree

Mellor

dave1982 wrote: »

Years of no mention whatsoever of MMA,then it is in the sports news.100,000 listeners.And you think its nothing.

Where did I say it was nothing. How can you struggle to following simple english?
In fact nobody said it was nothing, we simply said it wasn't a HUGE deal, some major step that you made it out to be.

Yeah of course they will never mention Strike force results cause its not as cool as the UFC.Surprising you didn't mention anything about me saying UFC results
Why no of mention UFC spoilers????

Seriously???
Are you honestly suggesting that the fact that I didn't mention UFC has any significance what so ever? It didn't, i was paraphrasing FFS.

Would it make you feel better if said that the idea of worrying about UFC spoilers right now was just as silly.



We can't agree disagree, as you apparently still can't even grasp the argument. I was a simple idea, but i'm tired of repeating it, we'll just agree to stop.