Well, we have had our seconfd show in Massachussetts in as many months! This is wonderful. Now taking into consideration the fact that we went from a show a week at this time last year, venues such as CFX, AFO,WCF, were all in full swing and advertising prominently upcoming events and fights regularly. We had NECF planning Wartown Beatdowns, fighters were generally excited and enthusiastic about opportunities to showcase their talents on a regular basis. Excitement was in the air with the anticipation of the arrival of Summer, outside shows, big venues, top fights, ring girls strutting their stuff.
All that seems to be a distant memory at this pont. We sat and waited for the arrival of XCFL2, got a taste of potentially top notch competition with a set of good fights rounding out the evening of what could have potentially been a disaster. Then….nothing! Big talk on MMA blog pages, big talk from fighters calling eachother out, but yet no venue in which to showcase these challenges. Recently,AFO puts their hat into the ring and delivers another night of quality competition and good crowd support.
Now what? We await the arrival of Bellator to come save Mass MMA and sanctify the roar of the crowd. XCFL has slated another show at Marlborough in the middle of the month, and rumors persist of a CFX show that has been moved and postponed previous times already. This is the state of the MMA world in our area right now. A show a month? Maybe two? Fighters looking for opportunities outside of Mass, no fighters really willing to come into Mass to fight due to new rules and qualifications. Promotions left scrambling, financially and legally to put on a show, vendors and apparel companies left with nowhere to showcase their goods, and above all, the fans, left without a resource for solid entertainment on a regular basis, except for the occasional rerun of Faber vs Brown on Versus.
A unified community,fighters, promoters, managers, trainers, vendors and fans, standing up for the right to express and dignify our sport is what is needed here. A voice to call out and expreess the interests and given rights we so seek to invoke as our sport faulters and teeters on the brink of a possible downward spiral. I hope all who potentially read this find favor in my words and find also the opportunities and abilities to voice their opinions in our community. I know there are alot of influencial voices that can and should be heard, as well as alot of great minds with ways to improve our current status. Heres to all of you out there fighting for our rights, and to all of us seeking an improvement in OUR world!
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