Who writes flos headlines?

[BruceyB]

14 minutes ago, ionel said:

Espn

Certainly you jest.

[BruceyB]

26 minutes ago, wrestle87 said:

If you know you know.

I wish I knew. Good rebuttal. 

[ionel]

4 minutes ago, BruceyB said:

Certainly you jest.

They have good announcers, great coverage, never have a streaming issue, cover most all the B12 & ACC duals & tournament, plus some others and all of NCAA.  What more do you want. 

[BruceyB]

20 minutes ago, ionel said:

They have good announcers, great coverage, never have a streaming issue, cover most all the B12 & ACC duals & tournament, plus some others and all of NCAA.  What more do you want. 

Midseason shows discussing the latest news in college wrestling.

College rankings.

High school rankings.

Recruiting updates.

Big boards.

Literally any high school coverage.

Match previews.

Match recaps.

U.S. Open coverage.

WTT/OTT coverage.

u17/u20/u23 coverage.

Brackets.

An archive of matches after they happen.

Coverage of World's and content leading up to the event.

A breakdown of Worlds/Olympics after they are completed.

 

Just to name a few aspects of coverage and promotion that Flo does superior to ESPN. When I want to look up an old match or information regarding wrestling, I have never once gone to ESPN.com.

Edit: Typo

Edited 16 hours ago by BruceyB

[ionel]

25 minutes ago, BruceyB said:

Midseason shows discussing the latest news in college wrestling.

College rankings.

High school rankings.

Recruiting updates.

Big boards.

Literally any high school coverage.

Match previews.

Match recaps.

U.S. Open coverage.

WTT/OTT coverage.

u17/u20/u23 coverage.

Brackets.

An archive of matches after they happen.

Coverage of World's and content leading up to the event.

A breakdown of Worlds/Olympics after they are completed.

 

Just to name a few aspects of coverage and promotion that Flo does superior to ESPN. When I want to look up an old match or information regarding wrestling, I have never once gone to ESPN.com.

Edit: Typo

To each his own.  I'm watching the Australian Open on ESPN right now ... why ... because I want to see the match.  I don't want to watch someone talk about the match for 30 minutes, I just want to watch the match.  This morning i watched a match from the middle of the night night on Espn+.  They are all there on demand, easy to find just like wrestling.  I just want a service that streams the matches.  I can read about various rankings etc don't need to hear someone explain why 5 is better than 6.  But again, to each his own. 

Also I don't want to deal with a service that mixes and list high school and kids club in with college events.  I just want to see the D1 events.  Its like the AO on ESPN now, I don't have to search thru every current age group of tennis, I just click on the AO button.  For wrestling its the NCAA button. 

Edited 16 hours ago by ionel

[BruceyB]

36 minutes ago, ionel said:

To each his own.  I'm watching the Australian Open on ESPN right now ... why ... because I want to see the match.  I don't want to watch someone talk about the match for 30 minutes, I just want to watch the match.  This morning i watched a match from the middle of the night night on Espn+.  They are all there on demand, easy to find just like wrestling.  I just want a service that streams the matches.  I can read about various rankings etc don't need to hear someone explain why 5 is better than 6.  But again, to each his own. 

Also I don't want to deal with a service that mixes and list high school and kids club in with college events.  I just want to see the D1 events.  Its like the AO on ESPN now, I don't have to search thru every current age group of tennis, I just click on the AO button.  For wrestling its the NCAA button. 

I would agree to each their own. I am a glutton for wrestling coverage. I enjoy looking at rankings, prognostications, previews before a big dual, a breakdown after the dual, and I also really enjoy the limited amount of big freestyle events that get coverage. The build up before the actual event, and then seeing how it unfolds compared to my predictions and the predictions of those that are "knowledgeable" makes the event more intriguing for myself.

If you're only concerned with NCAA streaming, then, yes, ESPN and Big10 provide much more coverage as they own the broadcasting rights to the majority of duals, conference tournaments, and of course the biggest of all, the NCAA championships.

I pay for ESPN+ and BIG10/BIG10+ to watch the matches, I pay for Flowrestling because I want everything that surrounds the actual event.

[wrestle87]

5 hours ago, BruceyB said:

I wish I knew. Good rebuttal. 

I will give you names who used to be part of the flo team, all left.

Martin Floreani, Joe Williamson, Mike Mal, our own board host here, Cliff Fretwell, Lee Roper, just to name a few.

Bader used to have 10x the face time he does now.

So…like I said, if you were around for it, if you know, you know, it’s not a question, just a reality.

[AnklePicker]

2 hours ago, wrestle87 said:

I will give you names who used to be part of the flo team, all left.

Martin Floreani, Joe Williamson, Mike Mal, our own board host here, Cliff Fretwell, Lee Roper, just to name a few.

Bader used to have 10x the face time he does now.

So…like I said, if you were around for it, if you know, you know, it’s not a question, just a reality.

I’ve been around since day 1.  Flo is ten times better now than it was then. Wth are you talking about?  Martin created the site but barely made any content, Joe is a good dude but hardly a professional journalist or broadcaster.  Mike Mal was cool but does ESPN keep all of their commentators forever?  Stop with the nonsense. Flo has done more for wrestling in the last 20 years than any company in the world.  Are they always perfect?  Hell no. Do they write cheesy headlines?  Hell yes but overall they try to do what’s best for wrestling while trying to turn a buck in the process. Hammerlock has a bug up his ass about Flo even though he continues to give them his money. 

[1032004]

3 hours ago, wrestle87 said:

I will give you names who used to be part of the flo team, all left.

Martin Floreani, Joe Williamson, Mike Mal, our own board host here, Cliff Fretwell, Lee Roper, just to name a few.

Bader used to have 10x the face time he does now.

So…like I said, if you were around for it, if you know, you know, it’s not a question, just a reality.

Well Martin still owns a significant piece of the company, despite going on unhinged rants about how “glaringly egregious” it is

[BruceyB]

9 hours ago, wrestle87 said:

I will give you names who used to be part of the flo team, all left.

Martin Floreani, Joe Williamson, Mike Mal, our own board host here, Cliff Fretwell, Lee Roper, just to name a few.

Bader used to have 10x the face time he does now.

So…like I said, if you were around for it, if you know, you know, it’s not a question, just a reality.

@AnklePicker pretty much covered what needs to be said.