Rumor: Stipe Miocic vs Cain Velasquez

[SongExotic2]

Side note, you guys remember the early ufc on fox cards when they would frantically bleach and scrub out the blood on the canvas between rounds/commercials?

Hey I was talking about this the other week. For some reason my brain thought they were painting them. But I was like nah that's stupid. Thought I dreamed it. It was after that bloodbath prelim the other week I wondered.

 

[FrankieNYC]

I think these and your other thoughts get to what I am saying. Putting out impossible-to-verify information and then saying "it's just a rumor, so if it's wrong, it's wrong" deserves some sort of response or criticism. Every false rumor erodes our potential trust in them.

For a fledgling site/podcast to start off by parroting rumors on random MMA instagram accounts with no attribution is akin to circling the drain for me, just an echo chamber of false information starting with "sources say" or "I heard". Now, I know news, so I am fully aware that disclosing actual personal sources can be difficult and risky. When it comes from external sources or those that have posted it publicly but not on a platform that everyone can see it, however, it should be the rumor spreader's duty to say where they originated from. Otherwise it's just irresponsible. It isn't even a lot to ask, either.

It makes things worse when the rumor spreader says something like "you heard it here first" when in fact it did not originate from them and was merely reposted by them. It would be like the first person to post a breaking story from MMAFighting on TMMAC saying "well you heard it from me first." It doesn't work like that. If that person actively pursued the information in a journalistic fashion (speaking to camps, reaching out to managers, hearing from fighters, etc.) it would be one thing and then it would be their scoop, but when it's just information gathered by trolling (the fishing definition) random instagram pages for stories, that's not reporting at all. That's just mmaimports with another name.

We are of a similar mind
@TheCompleteKO is a good guy & obviously willing to work hard
That is why I am cool with doing a show with him or giving info (or explaining info)
I think in a rush to find interesting content on a slow day, he tried some stuff.
About 4-5 weeks ago I gave him a topic idea & he went & researched it before he spoke on it.
That is the way to go, but along the way there will be trial & error

As a reference, I openly state that i am no "insider", but I do have dialogue with several who are.
Several times, we will discuss "rumors" that they did not report on or tweet about because they were not sure how valid they were*
That is the difference between journalist & twitter MMA newZ types that throw shit against the wall to stick

I rather the former, but its becoming more rare sadly


*The few times the rumor was true & someone else beat them to the scoop. they would wind up reporting facts that the person who scooped them did not have & fleshed out the story.
that IMO is journalism

 

[ECC170]

Side note, you guys remember the early ufc on fox cards when they would frantically bleach and scrub out the blood on the canvas between rounds/commercials?

I was the 1 scrubbing the canvas for EliteXc on CBS lol

 

[TheCompleteKO]

The rumors by the way are picking up.
A lot of different news outlets are now reporting on it.

 

[Ryann Von Doom]

I wonder if Cain will learn from his teammate, DC, about Stipe being vulnerable to intentional eye pokes that lead to KO's......

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