Comments on: 25 Awful Web Designs From 25 of MMA’s Top Fighters

By: Jonathan Hinshaw

Jonathan Hinshaw — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:31:00 +0000

This article is 2 years old and nothings changed. I just thought I would restart the conversation as it seems there’s been no real influence in the past 24 months. It’s unfortunate, but I believe if it’s going to change, someones going to have to set the bar. It’s still pretty low…

By: Martin Bean (MMA web designer)

Martin Bean (MMA web designer) — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:37:24 +0000

Last year (2009) I formed Your Fight Site, a web design and graphic design agency targeting the MMA (and professional wrestling) markets. So far, we’ve been pretty successful in carving out a niche. We’re experienced, having worked for larger companies, let maintaining prices affordable to those who aren’t quite as big.

People don’t mind paying for good design, and we’ve never had a shortage of work due to good word-of-mouth from our past clients.

By: Luke Richardson

Luke Richardson — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:34:01 +0000

It amazes me that some of the bigger fighters don’t have live sites up and running, but it does kind of seem like MMA and martial arts generally are a bit undeveloped when it comes to branding the stars of the sport. I know UFC is massive and it’s made superstar millionaires out of a lot of its fighters, but the development of the profiles of fighters is tiny in comparison to the development of profiles in the music industry, for example.

By: Matt DeRosa (MMA school owner from NYC)

Matt DeRosa (MMA school owner from NYC) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:15:21 +0000

I can’t really say I’m surprised with how awful some of these sites look. Just because a group of people get together and call themselves a ‘marketing team’ doesn’t mean they have braincells.

I think most of the fighter’s that let these people run their websites gave their ‘marketing teams’ the green light on the layout, so they are too blame as well :)

By: MMA Gear

MMA Gear — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:04:59 +0000

Haha.. some of those actually aren’t that bad.. Are all of these their “official” websites though? Some of them look like they were just made by fans and whatnot. I mean, it’s hard to believe that a guy who has Gatorade and Under Armor endorcements (GSP) would have a website that was THAT bad..

By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:47:01 +0000

wow those designs are pretty bad

By: Darren Hoehne

Darren Hoehne — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:07:29 +0000

I got to agree that they are not the best. At the end of the day they are at least on the web and have some sort of presence.

Take it easy!!!

By: Karate Mart

Karate Mart — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:17:04 +0000

Some of these sites look pretty good for basic profile websites, but a lot of them could use a little bit of design help. You would think that any one of these fighters could find a fan willing to design their website professionally for free. Whoever designed Frank Mir’s banner did an excellent job.

By: Freestanding Heavybag

Freestanding Heavybag — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:52:03 +0000

lol. It is funny watching the design, but maybe that is really how they market themselves.
I don’t think they should linger in the design too much. Fans won’t actually care.
As long as they take a little step at a time to a better web design.

By: Cheryl from thatgirlisfunny

Cheryl from thatgirlisfunny — Tue, 04 May 2010 02:35:55 +0000

Maybe you’re so picky because you know what good web design is supposed to look like. I’m a big mixed martial arts fan. I guess I notice if I like the site design, but really, I’m more interested in reading what the guys have to say. Now that it’s 2010, many of these sites have been updated.I don’t think the UFC kicks in any cash for the guys to buff up their sites.

It’s cool that you collected these images – it’s like web history for MMA :D