Filed under: MMA Media Watch
One of the dilemmas that increasingly seems to frustrate both MMA promoters and fans is the refusal of friends and teammates to fight each other. The guys who train with Greg Jackson don’t want to fight each other. The guys who train at American Kickboxing Academy don’t want to fight each other. The guys who train at Black House don’t want to fight each other. Babalu Sobral says he doesn’t want the Strikeforce light heavyweight title fight he just earned because he’s friends with the champion, Mo Lawal. And so on.
That’s why it was nice to read, in Jake Rossen’s expansive look at the 2000 Pride openweight tournament, the words of Mark Coleman on the subject.