WAMMA

UFC 98 is hours away but I am blogging today about the apparent death of WAMMA. It's come out over the past few days that Pat Miletich, who had something to do with fighter relations, and Sam Caplan, Cheif Operating Officer, have both left WAMMA saying that they no longer have the same overall vision of WAMMA. All I can say is what the hell was blinding them so badly for the last year and a half?

WAMMA was a joke right from the very start. No one took them seriously and their attempts to legitimize themselves were hilarious at the best of times and down right pathetic at the worst of times. Nobody saw them as what they tried to be, a legit unbias rankings committee. They said they wanted to be seen to MMA what The Ring magazine rankings were to boxing. People were intrigued when they first announced their aim, but then they released their first rankings and people realized what a load of crock they were. Considering that the biggest organization in the world, the UFC, wanted nothing to do with them and did not recognize their rankings, it rendered their organization basically useless. Considering that a great deal of the best fighters in the world fight in the UFC, it is impossible to have a legit world rankings system without the consent of the UFC to recognize the best fighters as the best fighters. The UFC only wants you to recognize there fighters, no one elses.

The basic idea of WAMMA was not bad, but nobody took them seriously from the start and the things they did over the past 18 months has just made it worse. How can you have a "World Lightweight Champion" that does not involve BJ Penn even fighting for the title? The WAMMA belts were arguably the most disgusting pieces of trash in the history of title belts (I feel they were the worst but some people will argue the IFL's snakeskin belts). WAMMA was organized in November 2007. It looks like the beginning of the end happened in May 2009. Unfortunately, it probably should have happened in December 2007.