Zeus leaves MiddleEasy
I’ve sold MiddleEasy and this is the last article I will ever write for the site. Hey, hold those tears back. MiddleEasy is now in the hands of a great businessman.
One of my favorite MMA sites eva is under new management. I am not going to lie – I’m bummed out. MiddleEasy was an absolutely unique site that was respectful and irreverent, intelligent and playful, inclusive and uniquely focused.
And the pics were really cool. Well, damn…
Just like a mother turtle preparing her nest for babies when she has to depart, I have ensured MiddleEasy has a strong structure and a solid team for when I depart my own baby, which would be effective today.
I’ve sold MiddleEasy and this is the last article I will ever write for the site.
Hey, hold those tears back. MiddleEasy is now in the hands of a great businessman from Southern California named Jason Wurz and he has massive plans for the site which include bringing back the MiddleEasy store with fully-stocked merchandise for you guys.
Taking my place as Editor-in-Chief will be Jason Nawara, a guy that many of you have come to know and love (and troll) throughout the years. I have full confidence that Jason will take the site into a new and exciting direction that most of you will enjoy, and a few of you will still complain about. Dave Walsh from LiverKick will act as the Managing Editor of MiddleEasy.
This site has given me such an amazing creative outlet to communicate with you guys. MiddleEasy has its roots in MMA, but I never wanted it to be just about MMA. Perhaps that’s what separated MiddleEasy from the other outlets out there. If I had to make a top ten list of my own articles (and of course I have to make a top ten list) that I really thought were my best or most clever pieces, it would go like this – in no particular order:
– Zombie satellite may threaten UFC 114
– Interviewing Lee Murray from his Moroccan prison with a cell phone he confiscated inside.
– Exploring the 10th dimension with Dynamite!! MMA
– Top Ten Staph Infections in MMA History (After all the years, it’s still really gross)
– Ronda Rousey becomes the NEW Strikeforce bantamweight champion
– Bas Boon tells us EVERYTHING about Pride FC
– The time when I accidentally found out a TUF cast member was a gay porn star
– My open letter to Michelle Ould regarding White Pride
– The Top Ten Alterations to MMA History That 100% Occurred in a Parallel Universe
My note to the MMA fans and MiddleEasy Readers
Never feel as if you’re looking at MMA from the outside in. This industry is not some faceless leviathan. You guys are the most important thing about the sport that you love.
I’m not sure where MMA is going, but I know where it was when I left it – and it was at a strange and bizarre state. The sport may last the next decade, but only if you let it.
So what does this mean? You need to show you support by the dollars and time you spend on it. If the UFC is putting on lame cards and expecting you to pay for it, then don’t. That’s your power. Demand better – because at the end of the day it’s your money that runs the sports, not MMA journalists.