Comments on: Fedor-Sylvia to Fight For WAMMA Heavyweight Title

By: gracies suck ass

gracies suck ass — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:12:49 +0000

if tim wins he won’t be #1 since he was just subbed by nog, good observation skills there just4fun,

By: jst4fun373

jst4fun373 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:01:26 +0000

if tim beats fendor then he should be ranked high. tim might not be the greatest fighter in the world but he has proven that he can fight. he beat andre not once but twice when he seemed unbeatable. fedor is ranked num 1 with out having fought a top ranked guy in a while, why give him so much hype? sure he did a lot before but so did rua and he lost to forrest. not taking anything from forrest. anyone who beats fedor should be consider a top ranked fighter if not number 1 at hw.

By: gracies suck ass

gracies suck ass — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:57:59 +0000

the WAMMA belt is a fucking joke and is going to take away from this fight.

WAMMA: We only support fights between the top ranked fighters to find our champs…

Well shit isn’t that fucking Randy and Nog? Fedor maybe, but tim is def not the 2nd best in the world, WAMMA is Bullshit and no one should support this piece of shit coat tail riding organization.

@ Randy couture specifically: Quit trying to look like your doing something by sitting on the wamma board and fill out your contractual obligations you fucking chrome headed tramp stamp fucking douche bag.

Fuck WAMMA.

By: AJ

AJ — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:34:37 +0000

Word. Sylvia winning will make Affliction look bad. Put your $ on Fedor. KO in the 2nd round.

By: WAMMA Pit Fighter

WAMMA Pit Fighter — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:20:41 +0000

Douchebaggery understood my point. I am firmly against the idea of WAMMA, but if they must have belts, what I meant is that they should just award belts to all of their #1 ranked fighters in all divisions as ranked by WAMMA, which Fedor would clearly be if he beats Sylvia. Fedor’s claim to be #1 would be hard to dispute at that point, whereas if Sylvia wins, I don’t think most would see him as #1, thus undermining WAMMA’s legitimacy.

By: turk

turk — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:18:54 +0000

Wow that sucked

By: Turk

Turk — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:18:06 +0000

Just let him live Fedor, but beat the [IMG]http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/busa102/new1/SlUPPy-1.png[/IMG] out of him !

By: douchebaggery

douchebaggery — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:36:17 +0000

the difference is that if Fedor wins the belt will have some vague sense of legitimacy and if Tim wins the belt will end up with shart stains.

“Doesn’t beating the man make you the man?”

that wasn’t the case in Matt Serra’s upset of GSP. he never was and never will be considered “the man”, just like Sylvia.

By: bfowlkes

bfowlkes — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:14:03 +0000

I completely understand your concerns about WAMMA, and I’ve expressed similar ones before. However I don’t see how just giving a belt to Fedor if he wins would be any better. If you acknowledge that Fedor would deserve a belt for beating Tim and generally being the top-ranked heavyweight, then wouldn’t Tim deserve it for beating Fedor? Doesn’t beating the man make you the man?

By: WAMMA Pit Fighter

WAMMA Pit Fighter — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:43:39 +0000

Ben, I just don’t understand this.

First off, I have never been a fan of the idea of ading sanctioning bodies to MMA. They have an awful track record in boxing, and I can’t imagine what good they can do for MMA.

More to the point, if WAMMA wants to be taken seriously, how can it create a belt for this fight. What if Tim Sylvia wins? He would have lost recently to Randy Couture and Noguiera, yet a win against Fedor makes him the #1 fighter in the world according to WAMMA.

So does that mean WAMMA is just going to pretend Couture and Nog don’t exist, kinda like Dana White pretends Fedor doesn’t exist? In my mind, this totally undermines the credibility of the organization as it is desperately trying to vye for credibility. It would have simply been smarter to have not disclosed the belt, and just awarded Fedor the belt if he pulls out the likely victory. I would accept that. But the idea that Tim Sylvia is even up for the belt of a sanctioning committee tells me you can’t take them seriously if they want oversight of the rankings and eventually match-makings in MMA.

On a side note, I appreciate the full-disclosure on your being a part of WAMMA. That is a lot better than I can say for Caplan, who seems to think he is above disclosure of any sort, while he shamelessly plugs EliteXC while cashing checks from both ProElite and CBS.