Bloody Elbow circling the drain?

SB Nation cut them loose last year.
They (Nate Wilcox) resurrected themselves on a weird platform where part of the articles were on their new web site but if you wanted to read the rest you had to pay to subscribe to their Substack.
They had a bit of everything: MMA, Sumo wrestling, BJJ tourneys… but they were an MMA site back in the day.
Still, with all the changes, they continued to have a post-fight analysis and a “Winners and Losers” article after each UFC card.
But this weekend? Neither. They’ve posted nothing since before the (crappy) UFC card this weekend.
My guess: They’ve run out of money and they’re finding out the hard way that MMA is really, truly a niche sport that can’t support a big number of web sites, and adding in smaller niche sports like Sumo and what have you isn’t going to draw enough audience to keep you in business.
Well, if it’s as I think it is: Good luck to you, Bloody Elbow folks. Ten years ago I actually found you a place to visit on the internet. It’s a shame you didn’t stay relevant.

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I followed them for news. I stopped a year ago . Wes Sims reported they were drowning. I noticed their pieces were Negative. I have better sources that come thru now. Ive moved on from their content . Sorry

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Bloody Elbow has been ideologically captured for awhile now and has an agenda they push. Fuck em…
Their nonstop virtue signalling and hitpieces on Dana White are exhausting and nobody cares.

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Isn’t that the site that had Elias and a bunch of other bitchy virtue signalers who posted as much about politics as they did about MMA? Who could have predicted that would be a failing strategy in the MMA space?

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yeah i think so

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Yes, the site has been overtaken by SJWs with an agenda for years now. That shit stain of an MMA website deserves to drown and I’m here to laugh at them every step of the way.

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That’s funny. I still can’t remember who that Elias guy was, but I think he was more of a thing on the UG than on Bloody Elbow.

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very true

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You would think they hated the sport the way they cover it. Shitting on UFC, shitting on any fighter that might have a different viewpoint, etc. They are too pussy to be involved in a sport as masculine as this. Keep the politics out and talk more about the fights.

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nailed it

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That’s the same as Luke Thomas, Ariel and most of the other media guys. They wish MMA was made up of latte sipping hipsters or something. It’s no surprise that random fans with Youtube accounts are beginning to replace them as the dominant media in the sport.

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This right here

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It is weird. It is almost like they hate the sport, hate the fans, hate the promotions (at least the UFC), and hate most of the fighters but believe they can make money reporting on it since it is such a niche sport they can be a big fish in a small pond (Holy run on sentence batman!)

They used to be a part of Vox Media, and were meant to be a Trojan Horse of sorts, to bring Leftism into the sphere of MMA.

There were decent articles from time to time, but they overplayed their hand with their crap politics.

I don’t see how they survive. It’s obvious they hate their audience and don’t have much of a purpose anymore since their funding dried up.

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The contempt that mma journalists have for the sport, fighters and fans is insane. You can tell many failed being journalists at something else and came to MMA with a bitter sense of failure.

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Crooklyn was over there.

I can remember her being concerned about her job because it was coming to an end.

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All the comments in their live results thread from yesterday are people asking if they’ve closed up shop.
Their live threads during UFC cards used to get tons of comments. Now they get few or none.

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Circling the drain? That heap done clogged it long enough ago the visitorship rues the day plumbing was invented.

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The ideology always comes first and foremost with these pathetic losers. Everything they become involved with they try to force changes and make everyone around them conform to their every belief. They destroy everything they touch. They will even allow their own business to go under completely as long as they virtue signal and pat themselves on the back on their way to the bottom.

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This

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