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Opinion: Why Mike Goldberg is Out
- Updated: December 29, 2016
Opinion: Why Mike Goldberg is Out Editor’s note: The views and opinions expressed below are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Sherdog.com, its affiliates and sponsors or its parent company, Evolve Media.* * * I still vividly remember the first time that I saw Mike Goldberg.After I first got a computer and internet access in the Summer of 1997, I stupidly dropped my subscriptions to the various pro wrestling industry newsletters, since I was going to get all my news online. I lost touch with mixed martial arts as a result, as a didn’t really seek out any primitive fighting forums or websites. Being in the heart of Cablevision’s service area in New York, I had long since been without access to MMA pay-per-view, so I would keep up with the Ultimate Fighting Championship via home video releases at Blockbuster. The problem with this was that the UFC’s original home video, with Trimark, had tapes coming out over a year after the event happened. So I remember seeing that the Ultimate Japan card had arrived in the new release section, and seeing that for the first time in years, color commentator Jeff Blatnick was not joined by Bruce Beck. Instead, he was accompanied by some guy that looked kind of like Bruce Beck and sounded just like Bruce Beck but definitely wasn’t Bruce Beck. It was very obvious that the UFC, then still under Semaphore Entertainment Group’s ownership, was just trading in Bruce Beck for a newer model. He actually did an admirable job all things considered, and he improved as time went on. But a few years into the post-TUF boom, something happened. He started making more and more mistakes. He took on a more …
