Comments on: Entire Gareb Shamus interview now available http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2007/07/01/entire-gareb-shamus-interview-now-available/ Your Destination for Insider MMA News and Opinion Thu, 24 May 2012 21:35:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: <![CDATA[Body_Shots]]> http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2007/07/01/entire-gareb-shamus-interview-now-available/comment-page-1/#comment-501 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:45:51 +0000 http://fiveouncesofpain.com/?p=262#comment-501 <i>[GS: A lot of people like to compare us to the UFC but they went through $44 million over for years before their organization turned around. It’s not as if they opened shop and everybody cared about them. That’s not what happened with those guys. A lot of people like to compare where we are with where the UFC is today and it’s not an appropriate comparison. If you want to make an appropriate comparison let’s compare where we are after our first year and where the UFC was after their first two years (under current ownership). They didn’t have a TV show. They had pay-per-views but they didn’t sell out arenas. They didn’t have athletes that people know. They didn’t have broadcast TV deals. They didn’t have big sponsors. That’s a more fair comparison of kind of where we are after only putting on fights for 13 months now. I think we’re in an incredible position.]</i> That isn't an appropriate comparison either, when Zuffa bought the UFC, MMA was all but dead, Shamus & Otto founded their company during the MMA boom in North America. Everybody has tv & sponsorship deals nowadays. [GS: A lot of people like to compare us to the UFC but they went through $44 million over for years before their organization turned around. It’s not as if they opened shop and everybody cared about them. That’s not what happened with those guys. A lot of people like to compare where we are with where the UFC is today and it’s not an appropriate comparison. If you want to make an appropriate comparison let’s compare where we are after our first year and where the UFC was after their first two years (under current ownership). They didn’t have a TV show. They had pay-per-views but they didn’t sell out arenas. They didn’t have athletes that people know. They didn’t have broadcast TV deals. They didn’t have big sponsors. That’s a more fair comparison of kind of where we are after only putting on fights for 13 months now. I think we’re in an incredible position.]

That isn’t an appropriate comparison either, when Zuffa bought the UFC, MMA was all but dead, Shamus & Otto founded their company during the MMA boom in North America. Everybody has tv & sponsorship deals nowadays.

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