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The MMA Insiders Podcast Episode 93

The MMA Report Staff

What does last week’s NBA Draft and current state of mixed martial arts have in common? Find out the answer to this question on the new episode of The MMA Insiders Podcast as Sam Caplan and Jason Floyd talk the latest on the business side of the sport.

Just like in the past couple of episodes of the podcast, the guys talk about the latest developments in the potential UFC sale and Sam bring ups an interesting point about WME-IMG Agency potentially buying the promotion.

Also on this edition of the podcast, Sam and Jason discuss last week’s Bellator 157: Dynamite 2 event. They talk about the television ratings for the event, Bellator booking Matt Mitrione in less than one month after nearly losing in the opening round and the performance of Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. The guys have a lengthy discussion about how Bellator needs to find a way to get fans excited about the product and ask the question, “is the promotion heading towards a crisis point?”

Other topics from this edition of the podcast include questions submitted by listeners on social media, Mark Godbeer’s explanation for pulling out of Bellator 158, CM Punk’s UFC debut being announced, Dana White’s recent comments on Fedor Emelianenko and Georges St-Pierre coming back to MMA competition.

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  1. I can’t blame Mark Godbeer for removing himself from the Bellator 158 card. I understand how he stated that he lost a lot of sponsorship money by being dropped from the main card to the non televised preliminary portion of the card. I understand that his displeasure has to do with a third party, but this is how Bellator does Bellator type of things. People, traditionally, tune in to watch the heavyweights, and these two heavyweights are the top two ranked heavyweights in the United Kingdom, and Bellator let a third party remove them from the main card. This is typical of Bellator under Scott Coker, taking one step forward, followed by a bunch of puzzling steps backwards. Simply put, I don’t blame Mark Godbeer one bit for removing himself from Bellator 158. As he stated, he is from the streets, and one rule of the streets is never mess with someone’s money. And I agree with Sam Caplan’s assessment that Ariel Helwani should not have done a podcast that day if he was that emotionally affected by the UFC decision, at the time, to ban him. I do have a problem with Ariel Helwani calling himself a MMA reporter by the simple fact that he has refused to attend a Bellator event or a WSOF event, no matter what the excuses he gives. To me, he is simply a UFC centered reporter. Dick Vitale covers college basketball, not just ACC basketball, not just SEC basketball, he covers all of college basketball. And like you Jason Floyd, I simply did not understand why in the world was Guilherme Vasconcelos fight not shown online. Bellator has been around since 2012, and Scott Coker has been the figurehead of Bellator for two years now, and Bellator has yet to find some network needing and wanting programming to televise their preliminary fights. This is totally unacceptable and inexcusable. But Bellator will be Bellator. I have no idea who is running Bellator, is it Scott Coker? Or is it some idiot or idiots in suits trying to show everyone this is why they are wearing suits? But whatever the disconnect, they are F-ing things up.

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