VIDEO: UFC Vs. StrikeForce & Straka’s Success With MMA At FoxNews.com

March 12th, 2009 · No Comments

This week on FoxNews.com’s Fight Game Show we talked about UFC 96, Don King entering the MMA fray, the sad sad news about “Mask” from TapOut, and in this video a discussion about how StrikeForce will compete with the UFC.

On a side note - let me just say, albeit biased, that Mike Straka of FoxNews.com is presenting some of the best MMA video coverage/commentary anywhere. On a very limited budget he is cranking out weekly panel shows, on-scene reports from the UFC PPV shows, and weekly high profile interviews. And this week when the sad news about “Mask” from TapOut hit - Straka and FoxNews.com was likely the first MMA media outlet anywhere to broadcast a video memorial. It was produced and edited within hours of the news breaking.

ESPN is not doing as-much as-well on the video front, NBCSports.com shockingly bailed out of the MMA news business altogether - despite drawing great numbers, HDNet does their thing well however Straka is leveraging Fox’s online infrastructure to produce some of the best and most consistent video MMA coverage anywhere. Now, will the top dogs on 6th Ave see the huge upside potential of MMA and push FOX to take a leadership position during a time when others have stumbled … opportunity is there for the taking. Click through for this weeks Fight Game video.

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Off The Cuff... Edgar VS. Alvarez!

In early May, I was down at Almeida BJJ to shoot and produce a feature on Frankie Edgar tied to his photo shoot for FIGHT! magazine. That video will be on Fightmagazine.com soon. While working, I was lucky to witness one of the great sparring sessions in my day. Edgar was going toe-to-toe with Eddie Alvarez who was one week out from his fight V. Josh Neer. Now, I have known Frankie for some time, so I might be biased but he did seem to control the action. Standing, his fast hands and feet allowed him to get off first much like we saw against BJ and Sherk. Each man got a couple takedowns but the overall pace and forward movement seemed slightly in favor of Edgar. Now, in Eddie's defense, he may have been only seeking to work on one element of his game V. Edgar and only trying to react or setup something only he knew of, specific to the Josh Neer fight ... so in that respect, it was not a true test of each fighting the other under the same context. That said, there was not really anything off limits - it was vicious jab/right combos from Frankie followed, at one point, by a head over heel body-throw take-down from Eddie on Frankie ... neither giving an inch. It felt like the real thing minus the the bright lights and octagon. It seemed to get harsh a couple of times but that may have just been my read. In the end, hard core sparring at play. Two of the top-5 lightweights on the planet going after each other at 110% on a lazy Thursday morning in Hamilton, NJ. After the session, what did Edgar do... relax-no, he went to use a chainsaw and chop down small trees in a friend's backyard for three hours.