2012 Day 11. When my duties in those avenues are finished for the day I fill the rest of my spare time with reading comic books, listening to and recording podcasts and following and watching matches in the MMA world.


Recently a couple instances have been used to support a contention that I don’t think I necessarily agree with. Several podcasts have been in support of things drawing ‘eyeballs’ to the sport. The recent developments that have floated this concept to the top of the MMA podcasting world are the recent retirement of Brock Lesnar and the announcement that CM Punk will accompany Chael Sonnen to the ring in an upcoming bout. Curiously both are wrestling personas but that is for another discussion.


My concern is that the ‘eyeballs’ that those two figures bring to the sport may not be the kinds of ‘eyeballs’ we want nor can the sport entertain them. Wrestling is a very different sport when compared to MMA. The former is scripted while the later most certainly is not. This I think is the difference that will prevent most of the fans of the wrestling soap opera from being interested in the long term and they will leave after having been counted as fans which will in tern make it appear as though MMA is loosing its audience.


The recent partnership with the UFC, the pre-eminent MMA promotion and the Fox family of networks will offer fans worldwide their best opportunity to date to watch and hopefully be entertained by the sport. The last thing we real fans need are the band wagon fans to come on, be counted by Fox and then leave showing a false negative in MMA interest.


MMA doesn’t need outside names like the two aforementioned personalities as well as Herschel Walker, Kimbo Slice and Steven Segal to be our banner carriers. Instead names like Bas Rutan, Gina Carano and Jon Jones do and will continue to represent MMA in a more sustainable manner. In the end let MMA culture their own ‘faces’ and not count on outside ‘heels’ to represent the sport


Battle Scars 3, Hulk 4, Journey into Mystery 633, Scarlet Spider 1, Wolverine 300, Wolverine and the X-men 4, X-Factor 230 and X-Men Legacy 260.1 are all top of the stack today followed by the latest installment of the DCnU.