Forrest: Ariel was never my friend (Video)

[The Merchant]

Megan has already denied Ariel's name once, do it twice more and it'll be scriptural, Joe.

 

[biscuitsbrah]

Lmao holy shit this thread made me realize I don’t like Forrest, Megan, or Ariel

 

[ultramanhyata]

He is a reporter and interviewer, not an analyst. Of course he isn't going to talk about armbar transitions for 4 hours.

There's a difference between talking about armbars for 4 hours and spending far more time asking questions about a fighter's contract and salary or attitude towards a promotion than asking questions about a fighter's actual performance inside the cage.

Ariel is your classic WWE fan who watches MMA. Backstories and personal drama always take precedent.

 

[Killuminati0947]

 

[ultramanhyata]

Media and athletes don't need to be friends. They need to ask the right questions regardless.

Exactly. Ariel's attempted behind-the-scenes fake chumminess with the fighters is part of what makes him so scummy.

 

[surgeyou1]

There's a difference between talking about armbars for 4 hours and spending far more time asking questions about a fighter's contract and salary or attitude towards a promotion than asking questions about a fighter's actual performance inside the cage.

Ariel is your classic WWE fan who watches MMA. Backstories and personal drama always take precedent.

Ariel's been covering the sport since like 2005. He's not some bandwagon fan.

I've seen a lot of sports interviews. If you give them a generic question, the athlete will give you a generic answer. Sometimes you need to ask the uncomfortable questions that people actually want to hear.

 

[Area809]

Very fair & thought-out
Rare on here

Thank you, but I’m just as liable to make a stupid comment later like anyone else on here<45>

 

[ReadWrite]

There's a difference between talking about armbars for 4 hours and spending far more time asking questions about a fighter's contract and salary or attitude towards a promotion than asking questions about a fighter's actual performance inside the cage.

Ariel is your classic WWE fan who watches MMA. Backstories and personal drama always take precedent.

His next job will be at TMZ.

 

[blaseblah]

1. Megan only has a job because Ariel quit his job and she’s a complete tool of WME, Dana. She doesn’t break any stories like he did on the insider on the Wednesday night show. Wouldn’t even go so far as to say she’s a journalist. She’s a ufc employee and does exactly as she’s told.

Ariel worked for Fox directly. From this interview it sounds like she works for the UFC—I think that’s what Forrest said.

Thread about this yesterday

Personally not a fan of Ariel but Megan comparing herself to him is a joke

Nobody would watch anything Megan had unless it was on pornhub if she wasn’t working for the ufc as a hype
Girl

She works for Fox Sports. She's actually been with Fox since 2008.

What's with the random hate on Megan in this thread?

 

[Frank23]

Why was he crying?

 

[blaseblah]

Why was he crying?

Dana revoked his media credentials

 

[TheIrishPsycho]

If I want the real shit Id watch Luke Thomas but you all hate him, so idk what you want

We don't hate him, not at all - just a cuck.

I actually agree with him on most things, as long as you don't use someone like Brendan Schaub to help form MMA based opinions I think there is really no 'wrong' answer.

Megan does her job fine as an interviewer of sports people, Ariel thinks the same job is some kind of investigative reporter job - he's a little too above his station.

Why was he crying?

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[BigDramaShow26]

Ariel gets everyone on his show and their website gets all the scoops. I don't really care if he's a weasel and instigates in his interviews. That's what you want from a journalist.

 

[ortizgnp]

Exactly. Ariel's attempted behind-the-scenes fake chumminess with the fighters is part of what makes him so scummy.

Ariel's behind-the-scenes fake chumminess has given us the best interviews in MMA.

 

[mmacasualviewer]

Find 3 dudes uglier than Ariel Helwani and put them in a room. Apeface is jelly at the nose.

 

[ultramanhyata]

Ariel's behind-the-scenes fake chumminess has given us the best interviews in MMA.

"Best interviews" is obviously a relative term then. The fucking FATK do better MMA fighter interviews than Dramawani.

 

[Phi-]

I've seen a lot of sports interviews. If you give them a generic question, the athlete will give you a generic answer. Sometimes you need to ask the uncomfortable questions that people actually want to hear.

Ariel poses some good questions that you don't usually hear from other sports journalists. But there are also questions where he's going way too far only to get a reaction. It has nothing to do with MMA. It turns into the Ariel Helwani show pretty quickly and it does so on a regular basis.

Also, please don't pretend like we need to fight for the rights of sports journalists. They are NOT real journalists.

 

[Killuminati0947]

"Best interviews" is obviously a relative term then. The fucking FATK do better MMA fighter interviews than Dramawani.

Brendan Schaub is unbearable

 

[mmacasualviewer]

"Best interviews" is obviously a relative term then. The fucking FATK do better MMA fighter interviews than Dramawani.

MMA's leading man:

 

[TheIrishPsycho]

But that was in reference to the Karyn Bryant debate about interviewing fighters as soon as they get off the scale & not re-hydrated & feeling good yet.

Definitely something to that, johnny Hendricks post weight cut is like speaking to an invalid - the bro is not functioning at all.