The 'Winners and Losers' article on the front page...

[Chillout010]

Originally Posted by Irenaeus

Where is that from, and what does Hercules have to do with it? It was Alexander who solved that one.

Yeah, i'm not sure what Hercules has to do with a Gordian knot either.

[SuperNerd]

Most stuff from Sherdog.com is pretty bad. I havent read anything from that site in awhile. How dare you force that trash on us?

[TUF > U]

That article was huge pile of shit, even in sd standards..

[dc007]

I thought it was fine.

[BRAIN_DONORS]

I thought it was spot on.

[lazcall]

Thought it was well written

[CROPopped]

Originally Posted by victorpoprock

I agree with TS. That article was written in circles. I'm dizzy from reading it.

I agree also, although I understood everything I do think the writer went all around the world and dictionary to say things that were pretty simple

[strecharmstrong]

i dont see anything wrong with it. you might find if you read stuff a little more sophisticated you actually learn things.

MMA does not have to be written like the Highlights magazine for toddlers. that's basically saying we are all meathead dumbfucks who can't understand literary references and hyperbole. you may be, but i'm not.

[Irenaeus]

Originally Posted by FetalDefense

That's exactly what it is.

Great writing is not simply throwing in 10 cent words here-and-there, but actually making a compelling and thoughtful piece for your audience to read.

His words are an empty picture frame hung up to conceal a large, gaping hole in the wall.

I really think we have to make a distinction between the article being to bit to wordy for sherdoggers, and it being contrived or just flat out bad.

It is a thoughtful piece, I was especially interested in the distiction between ProElite and EliteXC. As for the language, do some of you really think that such words can not possibly be a part of an individual journalist natural prose? It's not that difficult words that are used. And to think that using a word like "obsequious" neccesarily means that the author means to rub his education into peoples faces or that he could possibly only think of it by using a thesaurus strikes me as ignorant.

He is guilty of missing his target audience (and in the quote by beatjnkie, confusing Alexander and Hercules), and not much else.

Edit: I basically support Chris' statement above.

[Lazyatxplaya]

Originally Posted by beatjnkie

I actually like Luke Thomas and bloodyelbow.com. But the problem here is not comprehension, it's that his writing style DOES NOT fit an MMA article at all.



Really Luke? You would NEVER find this type of word choice in any other sports article. It's unnecessary. I can't really qualify myself without sounding like an arrogant asshole, but I'll just say I go to one of the top universities in the nation, and I think writing MMA articles like this is plain stupid.

It's way too verbose, and comes off as pretentious. You can write an MMA article and come off as intelligent without the philosophical ****phors.

what univesity would dat be??