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1/11/2018 5:47am
1/11/2018 5:47am
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1/11/2018 10:12am
I was on the train thinking, supercross has so much potential and its just not utilized like a company like the UFC. They started after supercross but used conflicting drama as promotion and it worked. Made me think that if we had more riders like Ken Roczen, Austin Forkner, Justin Barcia, Cooper Webb, Stewarts, RC, Reed, Poto, and less reserved like Tomac, Dungey, Marvin, etc... people would be more engaged into watching what will happen with the beef.
Lets be honest, that 2009 season with Reed and Stewart was one of the all-time greats for a reason, they died trying to win. I honestly hate what Aldon baker has done to the sport, training riders into putting solid finished over wins for championships, I think the format needs another re-vamp. Just me 2 cents on supercross, look what good promotion and 'fake' beef did for the UFC its a billion dollar company now.
Lets be honest, that 2009 season with Reed and Stewart was one of the all-time greats for a reason, they died trying to win. I honestly hate what Aldon baker has done to the sport, training riders into putting solid finished over wins for championships, I think the format needs another re-vamp. Just me 2 cents on supercross, look what good promotion and 'fake' beef did for the UFC its a billion dollar company now.
And Anderson and Marv don’t ride together anymore
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I think however that guys like Anderson understand this, look at this post he made last winter
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZTvOODguS5/?taken-by=elhombre21
But for some reason we don't have that rivalry kind of thing like in 2009 with Stewart and Reed. That was drama all year and people like that. For sure, Dungey was a really good rider and an excellent ambassador for the sport, you can't take that away from him.
The SX show has been the same for like two decades. The exact same.
Or start with the 20-22 riders. Run it 10 laps. Come in for a mandatory pit stop/break of maybe 5 minutes. Make a few bike adjustments, fresh goggles, etc. Then rerack the top 12 for a gate drop for 15 lap finish.
Just thinking outside the box.
The whole production has gotten very stale.
I just don’t think that’s a real good look for the sport and obviously if you are getting lapped on lap three you are not bringing much to the show. Not trying to be disparaging to anyone. Just being realistic.
SX has probably the biggest gap in talent between first and last place of almost any sport.
Having less riders would allow time to follow them more. Not just on the track, but in the pits. Do interviews between races. Maybe add in a pit stop or something unique.
Adding more riders takes away from being able to do that.
Just my opinion.
Pit Row
We live inside our own circles. There are incredibly talented people out there who are the best in the world at their sport, hobby, job, whatever, who you've never heard of. Whatever they do makes someone out there psyched, and that fan thinks their hero should get more recognition.
I love motocross. I'm bored to death by road racing, flat track, BMX racing, rally racing, off-road truck racing, etc. I think you have to like the sport before you can get into the stories that happen backstage.
When it comes to personalities, we have a bit of a problem in that it's a young sport. They're like olympic gymnasts: They're teenagers who have focused on one thing since childhood. They don't know anything besides their sport. They've never been anywhere besides the motocross track. Riders like Dungey, Villopoto, Reed, Carmichael, become really interesting personalities near the end of their careers because they're 25 years old, have some life experience, and have become more confident in who they are as a person and not just a rider.
Racing will produce it's own drama naturally
without searching for a bunch of Johnny Macho Idiots and giving them a bike and script.
Did WP and VF have a fake beef out on the track?
How about a young Barcia roosting the asterisk worker and downed rider? Just two quick examples but there was nothing fake about it. Let the drama stem from the racing.... not the other way around.
The OP mentioned having less reserved riders and more animated macho (I've got a beef) riders. Then how are we to interpret a certain race in Minneapolis between RV and RD who had no beef against one another? They raced each other clean the whole way yet the crowed roared so loud it damn near brought the stadium down!
I'm not against a little smack talk or conflict between riders. However, if you mess too much with the real thing then you're going to get what you (want?) deserve..... Fake racing.
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