Why the UFC has KO’d Boxing
Sep/090
by John Wilson
There are 100 reasons why the UFC and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) are overtaking or have overtaken the boxing industry. Here is just one of them, and possibly the most important:
The List of Current Boxing Champions
vs.
List of Current UFC Champions
I understand that this is a simplified look at MMA (it doesn’t include Strikeforce, WEC, or any of the other leagues). Even if you did include those, there are less than four (and really only one) major organization. Also, the divisions or companies have completely separate fighters, so there would be no cross pollination, as opposed to most boxing rankings.
For more information about the UFC see: How the UFC Works
Dear Bing – Where is “John Wilson”?
Jun/091
Currently, I bounce around the top of the Google search results. Sometimes one or two, sometimes at the bottom, but since mid last year I’ve always been on page one of the number one search engine in the world when searching for “John Wilson”.
Tonight, a friend of mine saw a commercial for Bing - Microsoft’s new search engine. I was tweaking the new design of my blog and thought I should search “John Wilson” to see where I was. PAGE TWO! This begs the question – how could the number one blog in the world get it right and Bing get it wrong?
Great question. I was playing around with Bing and searched the word “search”. You’d think (at least if I was Product Manager) that Bing would be the number one result. Not so:
Where is Bing? Or Google?
Yahoo? Dogpile (I didn’t even know they still existed)? AOL? Seriously?
I thought this was weird until I ran the same search at Google…
Where is Google, Google?
Where is Product Management? This is either an example of the most pure product management or the silliest thing I’ve seen.