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When fight promoters are willing to jeopardize their health by stiffing one of the baddest heavyweights in the world, you know they really don’t have the money. That’s the situation with Alistair Overeem, who revealed on last week’s edition of MMA Live that he still hasn’t been paid for his K-1 World Grand Prix win in December.
Of course, Overeem is far from the first fighter to be shortchanged while competing in Japan — but as their grand prix champ and one of their biggest stars, you’d think K-1 would do everything in their power to keep him happy. The news gives even more support to rumors that K-1 is heading for bankruptcy, as Dutch kickboxing promoter Simon Rutz claimed in an interview earlier this week.
As for the Japanese MMA scene, keep in mind that neither DREAM nor Sengoku have scheduled their first event in 2011 yet, and Sengoku has been mysteriously shedding talent. Between poor management and local fans simply moving on from MMA and kickboxing, are we witnessing the death knell of combat sports in Japan?
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commentsYep, that's true. But a better site would make me more inclined to do that. But as it is now, CP doesn't seem to give a shit about me as a reader.
I'm frequently reading the swedish mmanytt.se. The top swedish mma site is way more taken care of and has a more lively community than CP. Remember, potential readership in Sweden is way smaller than that of CPs, but you get the feeling that they really care about what they're doing and also improving and maintaining the site, content, design etc.
Like I've written before, I really like CP, I've come here every day for a long time. What nags me though is that the CP staff are only concentrating their efforts to writing posts (usually very good posts btw) and doesn't seem to give a fuck about the rest of the site. With a very small effort (and som love) this site could be better, and in the end of course make some more money.
Now it's just a slighlty amusing and informative mmablog.
Nobody elese thinks this, am I really alone? Everynone think all is perfect as it is?
Good luck with your payment Overreem. You deserve it!
Still can't believe Jones is a Favorite I bet a shit load on Shogun Hope he comes in healthy.
Or you could just say it sucks and leave it at that. It's whatever, bro.
Ok,I've visited the categories on top. Not impressed.
I can see why Videos adn Ring Grils can be good for SEO-reasons, but other than that I don't think it adds anything to the site.
The forum sucks balls, because there's no activity.
The Fighter wiki is actually pretty nice, but who uses it? My guess is: Scarcely nobody
ANyway, my main point is that CP is doing a lazy/haphazard job of developing and maintaining this site.
When was the last time anyone Digg'd an article here?
"I mean the categories on the top of the site: Videos, Ring Girls, Forum, Fighters!!?!?!"
I’m never clicking that shit, probably never will. If nobody uses it – get rid of it!
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Why not? Videos and Ring Girls are basically just tags that bring up (wait for it) posts with videos and ring girls respectively.
The forum is a scary place full of assholes. Don't go there. Please.
"Fighters" is just the CagePotato Fighter Wiki, written by the Potato Nation. There's actually some funny shit in the Wiki, FWIW...
Yep, the mobile site is bad, bad, bad.
But this also goes for the whole CagePotato site, I think. I love this place and have probably come here every day for the last two years, but the site is really outdated. I don't know if the guys running this place have stopped caring, because it's been like this for a long time...
I mean the categories on the top of the site: Videos, Ring Girls, Forum, Fighters!!?!?!
I'm never clicking that shit, probably never will. If nobody uses it - get rid of it!
That's just one thing, but there are so mny improvements that EASILY could be made, to make this a truly kickass mma site, but instead it seems like it is slowly deteriorating into just another mma blog...
I feel like many readers of CP are passionate about this place and want it to be better.
You are definitely not the first place I heard that.
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