Basement Knee – Starting a Blog
by traviscrowe ~ March 2nd, 2011. Filed under: Uncategorized.It wasn’t more than a year ago when my friends and I started the acclimated Basement Knee MMA blog. All of us realized that our passion for the sport exceeded that of just watching the fights in a buddies basement. From this idea, Basement Knee was born.
There was an understanding that to start your own blog you didn’t necessarily need to have superior knowledge but just a desire to share your opinion. Five best friends pressed the “create” button and the site that many have come to know today was formed.
In the ever growing MMA world there are multiple websites and blogs that are trying to reach stardum comparable to the success that sites such as Bloody Elbow, MMA Fighting or MMA Junkie have achieved. None of us expected high results from this blog, but rather used it as a way to keep in contact and share our ideas over a sport we loved, while we attended university in different regions. We quickly found out that people were willing to accept what we had to say and some opportunities arose. Quite rapidly our small blog was attracting views from North America as well as Europe. After attending last years UFC115 in Vancouver our staff became aligned with world renowned MMA journalist Ariel Helwani, and also managed to get a few moments with some of the fighters that headlined the card. From this opportunity we were able to establish an online interview with fighters Pat Barry and Rory MacDonald, which helped accredit our blog.
Ultimately, this blog has become something more than just an opinion on a fight. It is site we all look forward to browsing, and developing. Regardless of whether or not it ever reaches super stardom on the net, the staff of Basement Knee can be, and should be proud that they started something from nothing.
http://basementknee.blogspot.com/