It stands for World Alliance for Mixed Martial Arts.
What it is for:
“WAMMA is dedicated to promoting and serving the sport of Mixed Martial Arts
with its monthly independent and objective rankings of fighters, regardless of
promotional affiliation.”
In all it will rank MMA fighters, establish a set of rules, and sanction world championship bouts. Some of the MMA notables are Pat Miletich and Goldberg. If you want to know what the MMA organization that promote fights currently have to say? Here is what UFC’s Dana White has to say about it.
“Sanctioning bodies are what killed boxing. They’re a virus in this sport,” said
UFC president Dana White, who got his start in boxing. “Nobody wants that for
this sport. It’s one of the beautiful things about this sport right now. It
doesn’t have all the dirty, greedy stuff.”White sees WAMMA as one of several organizations “coming out of the woodwork to make a buck out of this thing,” and
worries that it will breed other sanctioning bodies.”Maybe there’s other
organizations that want to use (WAMMA),” White said. “We’ll never be involved.”
IFL chief executive Jay Larkin said he has no problem cross-promoting - his
organization is already working with Mark Cuban’s HDNet Fights - but can’t see
how the UFC has anything to gain from an overarching sanctioning body.
“Fans will want to see matchups (the UFC) can’t make,” said Andrew Simon,
CEO of HDNet Fights, who added that his organization is reluctant to join the
alliance as well. “(But) I don’t know that WAMMA solves that, either, if
Dana doesn’t want to be a part of it.” “That to me, in this moment, appears
to be the fatal flaw,” Larkin said.
I might have to go with White on this one. They say they do not want to take money away from organization and interfere with fighters, but they want to hold bouts? Maybe one superfight a year, nope try 20-25.
“The alliance hopes to schedule its first world championship bout in mid-2008,
and eventually help put together 20-25 title fights a year.”
I like the fact of a body doing rankings across organizations and coming up with the same rules, but getting all that boxing money in the mix will start to get corruption introduced from somewhere. I am the first to always say that fighters should be paid more, but the paydays are improving and getting up there. I believe you should always go home with the person that brought you and the UFC did bring this sport. Who is to say that a majority of the sponsor money from these bouts will go the fighter? Who will profit from these? These sound easier to pop up than fight promotions. I believe if this one is endorsed by the majority of MMA orgs we will see all other types pop up. What is out there to stop them? Will this sport turn into all about the money like Boxing?
Fighters always comment that the cage is honest, truth in its purest form. I know fans want to see the superfights that are hard to make happen, but we need to be a careful mass. Getting satisfaction from one fight could leave the door open for something to lurk into to our MMA world.
Source:
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iQf6zs809kOxGXa3fEV_jUGqgLdg
Source:
http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-article/5569/rock-solid-mma-ratings/
