MMA Journalists are not aware of the stats of the very sport they cover as their jobs.

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as far as fights before a title shot go, they should only include UFC fights before a UFC title shot
 
wow!!!! amazing!!!

such an important stat!!!
 
You are giving them too much credit. I have seen better analysis on Sherdog, /r/MMA or even YouTube.
I edited my post to make it shorter (more concise). Maybe I shouldn't have.

I started out saying that journalists are "...exponentially better than 99.9% of forum lurkers...."

Since fans outnumber journalists by far greater than 1000-to-1, I'm not surprised there are exceptions that prove the rule.

But on any given day, any article on bjpenn, mmajunkie, etc is worth more than most posts on sherdog. IMO.
 
MMA media is terrible in general so I am not surprised. Most are lazy UFC sychophants.
 
A lot of journalist that cover mma do so cause they can't get a job covering the A-athlete sports like Football and Basketball. So they're forced to cover a bingo hall sport like mma just to have employment..

B sport gets B journalism..
 
I thnk he meant, the most experience before getting their first title shot, not any title shot
 
I thought fact checking is a criteria for journalism. They are professionals. As a professional they are setting up a very low bar with these rudimentary mistakes they keep making.
To be fair, Overeem was granted a title shot much earlier, but he lost it when he popped for elevated testosterone. It's not a great technicality, given that Reem didn't fight for a title until he fought Stipe.

And also, it wasn't that he was fact checked by a random fan. I've crunched a few numbers in my day. No harm done, he responded to my post respectfully and even offered to make a correction when the fight is official.
 
I thought fact checking is a criteria for journalism. They are professionals. As a professional they are setting up a very low bar with these rudimentary mistakes they keep making.
it's his twitter account. not exactly a newspaper article. it's not that big a deal. it's less of an mma "stat" than trivia.
 
I thnk he meant, the most experience before getting their first title shot, not any title shot

Masvidal already fought for the Strikeforce lightweight title against "Giblert".
 
Not sure what Mike Bohn means here.

Masvidal won the vacant AFC title and has had other title shots in his career prior to UFC.

So I am guessing he is talking about amount of fights in the UFC before getting a title shot?

If that's the case the twitter replier is wrong about Overeem who got his title shot against Stipe after like 8-10 fights or something in the UFC where Masvidal has like 18 fights or something in the UFC right now.

Bisping would probably be the record holder in that regard tho, pretty sure he had over 20+ fights before fighting for the title in the UFC.
 
Not sure what Mike Bohn means here.

Masvidal won the vacant AFC title and has had other title shots in his career prior to UFC.

So I am guessing he is talking about amount of fights in the UFC before getting a title shot?

If that's the case the twitter replier is wrong about Overeem who got his title shot against Stipe after like 8-10 fights or something in the UFC where Masvidal has like 18 fights or something in the UFC right now.

Bisping would probably be the record holder in that regard tho, pretty sure he had over 20+ fights before fighting for the title in the UFC.
He meant that Masvidal had the highest number of career fights before fighting for his first UFC title. Not any title in any org, just UFC. And he wasn't talking about total UFC fights before getting a title shot, because I wouldn't have answered with Overeem as that's not correct.
 
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