New CBSSports.com article: Top Ten Overachievers in MMA
Remember several months back when I “penned” an article for CBSSports.com with my personal top ten list of the biggest underachievers in MMA?
I took a ton of heat for that article and there’s nothing like having people e-mail you accusing you of putting together a list together in 10 minutes when you in fact spent three days working on it. Whatever. I love the attention.
In addition to loving attention I also must love punishment because I’ve decided to publish my top ten biggest overachievers as a long-delayed companion piece to the underachievers article.
You can check out the article on CBSSports.com by clicking here.
Sam Caplan is the President of Combat Sports Media, LLC, the parent company of FiveOuncesOfPain.com. CSM is a B-2-B outsource solution in the MMA industry and provides PR, web management, and other consulting services to MMA companies. Clients of CSM include the Combat Sports Championships and Showtime.
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as arbitrary as they may seem, to the new fans, these rankings make alot more sense than any of the other actual rankings I’ve seen elsewhere. props man.
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WTF? Did you spend 9 minutes on this or something?
Kidding. Solid list, Sam.
One question…. did you consider the background of Little Evil? I would put the background of Jens Pulver over Eddie Alvarez.
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Nice Sam. You forgot to mention that Sakuraba was a 185er fighting 205ers for most of his career, which above all else is what makes him a overachiever. Not sure about his iron chin considering he is suseptible to the KO.
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Chi, you’re right. I definitely should have wrote how Sakuraba has primarily fought against larger opponents.
Not sure about Saku’s chin? The dude has absorbed some brutal beatings.
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“Iron chin” usually means that he doesn’t get KOed easy (since most KO’s happen by targetting the chin). A more appropriate description for being able to take a beating would be “his samurai spirit” or he’s got “heart.” Don’t mean to be picky. Just having fun with words from one writer to another.
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