Media Ariel Helwani putting together a combat sports journalism super team at Yahoo

[ferrisjso]

Yea shes a content creator.

I dont think anyone is trying to pass her off as anything else, though.

Its dumb ass fans who think that she is cos they dont know what the fuck they are talkin about.

Tbh if someone is interviewing public figures with a microphone they are going to be viewed as journalists. And people are complaining that serious journalists have been replaced by superficial nonsense. Sometimes its entertaining sometimes it isn't but either way its not substance.

By your logic people shouldn't be shitting on the View, TMZ and the E network cause everyone knows they are dumb and not to take them seriously.

 

[HHJ]

He didn’t even bring the 2 guys that have been with him for years on the mma hour?

The nose knows no loyalty.

"Let me tell you something, Jim Ross.

I took them two jokers from nothin. From Tears to Glory.

They werent pulling their weight. They werent fulfilling their end of the bargain. They couldnt survive in the world I am going to create. Ariel Helwani, is going worldwide baby. The bright lights. The big cities.

Movin on up. To the east side. To a palatial recording studio.. IN THE SKY!

כל־בני אלהים!!!


Actually they are still coming"

 

[HHJ]

Tbh if someone is interviewing public figures with a microphone they are going to be viewed as journalists. And people are complaining that serious journalists have been replaced by superficial nonsense. Sometimes its entertaining sometimes it isn't but either way its not substance.

By your logic people shouldn't be shitting on the View, TMZ and the E network cause everyone knows they are dumb and not to take them seriously.

I didnt say Nina is "substance"

People dont have to like her.

But when they say that they get pissed that she has access to fighters that real journos dont get, I am like... what are they expecting?? Its not supposed to even be journalism. It's just entertainment.

I dont view the situation as any better before she came around. It's two different things to me.

 

[chinarice]

I didn't remember who it was with but you must be right.

I actually just watched it again in the last 2 months so it's pretty fresh in my memory haha

 

[IIIIIIII]

wow. chuck went over to work with ariel. luke thomas must not be a happy man at the moment. but at the end of the day, you have to go where you get paid. and it seems the morning kombat channel is having financial difficulties at the moment. hope that show recovers.

 

[moosaev]

Again, an entire new cycle is based on those interviews. That's just objectively not true.

False. You’re attributing a substantial amount of the news cycle to Ariel interviews when there’s no factual basis for that. 95% of his interviews are fluff.

 

[HHJ]

False. You’re attributing a substantial amount of the news cycle to Ariel interviews when there’s no factual basis for that. 95% of his interviews are fluff.

"In anybody else's hands, this is just a microphone, in my hands, it's a pipe bomb"

 

[Humongo]

Can't put my finger on it, maybe some pretty overt arrogance, but never liked that guy. Seems fake af too.

this is more your type right?

 

[Poirierfan]

That's fine. Its not for everyone. I think shes funny, but I dont go out of my way to watch it either. I dont have any problem with it and dont demean at all what she does, which is entertainment. Quoting "interviews" is missing the point.

Gotcha, I use to watch her, she's a great girl, I just grew tired of the same ole type of repetitive stuff. She does have a great personality foshow.

 

[HHJ]

Sherdoggers and safe pre approved questions:

 

[SalvadorAllende]

Can't put my finger on it, maybe some pretty overt arrogance, but never liked that guy. Seems fake af too.

Ariel is the biggest bitch in MMA. A snowflake like him has no place in combat sports.

His Yahoo team should be called "The weak weasels"

Were any of these BIG NAME combat experts sitting in the room when Cody Garbrandt admitted Team Alpha Male was on steroids and just sat there saying nothing instead of immediately launching into a series of follow up questions?

lol.. Cody is so stupid he might as well confess everything there.

 

[Pierced7681]

Well their anger is misdirected.

She has nothing to do with journalism, first of all. She's not even trying to be one. She is just there cos she works for the UFC and her hotness disarms the fighters and you wind up getting fun content. FUN. Not serious. She works for the UFC. She WOULD have access. Otherwise what is the fucking point of having her?

Second. They fuckin hate Ariel, and while they can stop him from appearing at their events, they cant stop fighters from appearing on his show where he does long form interviews with everybody. Nina Drama doesnt have nothing to do with any of that. She works FOR THE UFC.

Can you show me where it’s confirmed she has a contract with the ufc? As far as I know she’s just been given press access to the ufc and their fighters to make content for her social media pages, I haven’t seen anything saying she’s on the ufc payroll

 

[HHJ]

Can you show me where it’s confirmed she has a contract with the ufc? As far as I know she’s just been given press access to the ufc and their fighters to make content for her social media pages, I haven’t seen anything saying she’s on the ufc payroll

There's fuckin no way in hell she aint on the payroll. She's even doin skits with the slapboxing tards.

Why in the fuck is Laura Sanko interviewing her???

If she aint ALL IN

 

[Local Plata]

Wrestling as in wrestling, or did this dork really just get 3 guys that are going to write about pro wrestling with him?

 

[Rationality]

It's weird how so many Sherdoggers toe the UFC company line regarding Dana having absolute control of the money, the press, restrictive fighter contracts, etc. You'd think Sherdoggers weren't 6'6" and a shredded 245 lbs at all.

 

[HHJ]

It's weird how so many Sherdoggers toe the UFC company line regarding Dana having absolute control of the money, the press, restrictive fighter contracts, etc. You'd think Sherdoggers weren't 6'6" and a shredded 245 lbs at all.

Seriously.

Why would a 6'6 shredded 245 er be so threatened by Ariel just trying to report things outside of what UFC would allow?

How is that not a good thing?

Sometimes there are such mind numbingly huge gaping holes in the stuff Dana says and you know someone like Ariel would seize on oppurtunities like that...

But he's not there so it doesnt happen.

 

[JohnMandick]

As I've said so many times, MMA has the dumbest fans of any sport.

The hate for Ariel is another example of this.

 

[skylolow]

Good for Ariel, sounds like he got everything wanted from his video he put out. Love or hate the guy, he is basically the voice of MMA reporting.

 

[dreden1982]

Good for them. I never understood the hate for Helwani aside from him being an extreme dork which is fine.

 

[Pierced7681]

There's fuckin no way in hell she aint on the payroll. She's even doin skits with the slapboxing tards.

Why in the fuck is Laura Sanko interviewing her???

If she aint ALL IN

So you have no proof She’s on UFC’s payroll, gotcha. She’s clearly being given serious journalist access to fighters and Dana that Dana refuses to give to actual journalists.