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At least for the next couple of months we'll be contributing nearly daily to the fine mixed martial arts Web site MMARated.com . The good fellows over there have been nice enough to take us on as a part time writer. For our money, they do the best MMA videos and radio show on the net right now, so we're pretty excited about it. Our friend and collegue Ben Fowlkes from CagePotato has been co-hosting the radio gig alongside site honcho Ariel Helwani for some time now. They both do good work.
We'll continue to blog here, updating the site as much as we can. We'll do out best, but we've only got two hands, and one of them is typcially clutched around a can of Olympia or a TV remote control or a collection notice. So bear with us. We hope you continue to check us out here, while following along over at MMARated and with our on-going weekly gig at CraveOnline .
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There is no small measure of irony in the fact that, of the three biggest MMA promotions – UFC, Affliction and EliteXC – the one with the major network TV deal has the least compelling fighters. Odd, but it's somehow fitting that in a sport that struggles daily just to keep its head together, mainstream America's first taste is mostly a mouthful of B-level talent.
Don’t get us wrong, you’d have to look far and wide to find fighters who give us as many grins as guys like Nick Diaz and Nick Thompson. We also have a ton of respect for people like Yves Edwards, Jake Shields and Justin Eilers. But after last night’s CBS show proved better in leaps and bounds than the first and Shields, Antonio Silva and Robbie Lawler all won or retained belts we have to ask: What does it all really mean?
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 At about 1:30 p.m. MST on Thursday, MMA America received the following partially heartbreaking, partially strange email from a man named Joe Favorito, who was apparently the Senior Vice President of Communications with the International Fight League. We've never heard of Mr. Favorito before, but assume this message was mailed out en masse to all the folks who used to receive the IFL's press releases, and we were on that list.
Due to its nature, and the "mass mail" method of its delivery, we feel OK about posting it here, with Mr. Favorito's personal information edited out. It came under the subject line "Turnin' out the lights," and seems to confirm what we've known for a long time -- the IFL is done. The first parragraph puts a positive spin on the entire IFL experience. The second parrragraph is sort of a plea for further employment. It makes us sad, but we can't say we didn't see this coming. Sorry, IFL, we feel like you never really had a chance.
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