Stipe Isn’t marketable
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When the UFC say "not marketable" they actually mean "won't kiss ass"
There's this and there's also the fact that the fanbase will often just declare someone (often with the UFC's encouragement) to be 'marketable' or not based on absolutely nothing.
yeah right, or at least an american sounding or referencing nickname would probably do the trick as well
A lot of haters for what seems like a guy you’d happily invite to Christmas dinner
Yeh man..Ng-gah-noo sounds American as as a Trump rally
Yes but he was the big scary monster that eats your children and steals your wife.
Stipe could be marketable as hell. His name is unfortunate. But the fact that he doesn't want to do any of the press shit between fights is a giant obstacle. Hell, he's even too personable for them to try to go the Fedor -stoic killer route but not enough to be the outgoing guy that wants his face everywhere. It's awkward.
Stipe has done some great stuff. Pretty sure I've seen him visiting kids and going overseas. It's not like he hides and does nothing.
This is all on WME, that simple. Where Peyton Manning and Barry Sanders exciting personalities? No, they are as boring as a person can get and they have the excitability of chalk on a blackboard. The NFL actually has smart marketing people and they can take the most boring football player, and turn him into a gigantic star. Meanwhile in MMA even guys with personality like Tony Ferg and Al Iaquinta the UFC and WME has zero ability to promote them.
Its on WME ya'll
Its on WME ya'll
Of course he does things. What he wants to do. Certainly not Conan and Fallon and Late night tv that they try to do with their prize ponies.
Lol. I just posted in the other thread about how the social media person WME cut from the UFC went to work for the Super Bowl.
Prolly cuz WME is so retarded they brought in a non MMA guy in the first place.
Yeah, just like GSP, Anderson Silva, and Francis Ngannou.
so likable
was a big fan of Werdum
glad his belt went to Stipe
such a big lovable goof
was a big fan of Werdum
glad his belt went to Stipe
such a big lovable goof
all of whom are... not American.
The natural marketing angle for a guy like Stipe is the blue-collar All-American apple pie-eating, ass-kicking firefighter, but his name sounds like that guy on your favorite NBA team who can drain 3s but is too soft on defense. It's like a farmer-wrestler from Illinois walking out to the strains of "Country Boy Can Survive" with the name Darko Miličić.
...and nobody can understand a word he says!
Some guys, professional athletes, in particular, are well spoken and some are not. Historically this has not been determining factor on how well they were paid (which has always been Stipe's main complaint) or how popular they were with fans. In some cases, guys like Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali transcend their sport in terms of popularity, but guys like Rickey Henderson, Mike Tyson, and Tommy Hearns also did pretty well for themselves without having to sound like Denzel Washington when addressing the press. Kids today grew up with Mumble Rap, so I don't think they're that concerned about fighters annunciating every syllable. Look, if the UFC did something as simple as giving Stipe one of those "Looking For A Fight" type shows on YouTube and Fight Pass, I think we'd see a noticeable upswing in his popularity.
excellent post... I was going for a humorous "6 months of sprawl training" bit with my original post, but I do think it would help if he's not just "the guy nobody can understand "
I have cousins from Cleveland, so I'm used to the accent, but at least people know what they mean when they say "assault and bee-attery" or "I pulled my cee-alf muscle dee-ancing in the flee-ats"
hey, maybe the "gravelly mumbler" can be a positive gimmick, you never know
I’ve dont see why people can’t understand him. I’ve never been to Cleveland and I think he speaks perfectly fine.
Anderson even in his prime was not pulling great PPV numbers, look at the PPV sales during his prime run. I know its crazy, shows you how fucking lame most MMA fans are, they will buy CM punk but ignore Anderosn in his prime. It used to be talked about years ago how Anderson's ppv numbers where low.
Also Ngannou is not a star yet, probably will be but is not one yet
And GSP is from Cananda and handsome
100% accurate, it really all comes down to how incapable WME is at marketing, promoting and handling fighters.
Personally I think it's the gravelly voice combined with the monotone speaking, all words in the sentence are the same inflection, not some regional dialect thing, like a physical vocal cord thing combined with a flat delivery
