No they don’t. You’re making shit up.
I’ve been in and around the media for a while now; from reading the top stories on page 3 to writing for 5th_Round and now Kingdom MMA and in all that time I’ve noticed that there has always been one constant. If a sentence includes the following, “sources say” or “according to sources” the author is generally making it up. In fact it’s fair to say it’s about as factually correct as anything released under Piers Morgan.
However, I had thought this kind of nonsense was limited to the mainstream media and abhorred in mixed martial arts journalism but alas, this week ever since Anderson Silva failed a drug test the ‘leading’ rags have been running amok. I think I’m going to have to break code of conduct soon and start naming and shaming because it’s just bloody awful. What was it I read last night?! “Sources say… Silva... failed drugs… money… cheating for years” Fuck off… One even compared him to Lance Armstrong. It’s absolute bum dribble.
Look I get it; Silva failing a drug test is massive, apparently. What people intentionally fail to mention is that this was a very minor steroid that was not stacked with anything that would have given major gains and that it was out of competition. So far out of competition that it couldn’t have had any real noticeable effect on his performance in the cage. I think that was apparent to be honest but he’s being portrayed in a worse light than Vitor Belfort when he was caught using 4-Hydroxytestosterone IN competition. I’m not trivialising this though it may sound like I am it’s just that I am trying to draw perspective on a sad situation saturated in hyperbole. If the ‘B’ sample comes back as positive also then it’s a bloody stupid mistake he’s made but hanging, drawing and quartering him until it is definitive is wrong and unfair.
The people writing these articles don’t care either; they’re just sadly desperate for clicks and attention. Sorry, I must sound a bit like a broken record but this shoddy writing really gets on my nerves. Somehow these people are writing for audiences in their tens of thousands. The guys here at Kingdom MMA are writing quality and importantly accurate pieces of work for not a dime and yet some of these shmo’s are actually being paid to write this crap. It’s not just that it’s completely factitious either; the articles are generally substandard to boot.
Saying that I did read something today that made me laugh. Dan Bilzerian? Is that what he’s called? Normally I’d look it up but I think the guy’s a joke so I’m intentionally not doing, he’s offered to pay a journalist $250,000 to fight him. I have never wished pain or humiliation on anybody, I’m not normally that guy, but honestly if this journo got a lucky windmill on him and knocked him on his arse I think I’d cry. He has to be one of the most cretinous individuals somehow famous today.
Well folks, that’s all there is from me. It’s been a quiet week. The UK MMA scene is still to start; I’m still waiting on Brad Wharton to reply to an e-mail – no pressure mate – and there’s nothing been going on in the UFC. So until next week, that’s Rushy out.
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