Talk:Sherdog

message: I created this page because it is referenced in pretty much every mixed martial arts article, so I felt it deserved its own page. Feel free to disagree. I am in no way affiliated with the website itself.Alex Klotz 04:01, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article created

message: Is it necessary to say how their forums rank?  What is the ranking based off of?  Is the information relevant?  In my opinion the sentence about it being ranked 50 should be removed.  Also, I find an article about Sherdog in general to be a good idea since it's fighter data is widely regarded as the most complete compilation.  Thesaddestday 02:55, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Additionally, the new post about the forums sounds unnecessary, and the forums listed as an external link should be enough.  I'm not convinced a paragraph for the forums should be in the article.  Other thoughts?  Thesaddestday 07:39, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forums + Page in General 

message: Sherdog is now linked to from ESPN, so that's a pretty big deal —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.106.11 (talk • contribs) 
sherdog is the shit and the best site for MMA.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.127.223.98 (talk) 19:49, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ESPN 

message: I think it would be great if someone could include the current ranks in the different weight classes   --Vik.sanchez (talk) 15:11, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ranks 

message: This article seems more like a promotion then a neutral and unbiased wikiarticle, anyone agree?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.215.94.20 (talk) 20:04, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Somewhat, the history section definitely could be improved. If no one else takes a stab at it now I'll try to do something in the near future. --aktsu (t / c) 20:18, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Can someone add something about the adversarial relationship between Sherdog (the entity not the individual) and Dana White the UFC president? I know that they have problems getting their reporters credentialed for UFC events. The UFC being the premier MMA organization I think this is notable.  --Ason Abdullah (talk) 00:10, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unbiased 

message: The refs on this article need improving, and more needs to be done to show the notability, at the moment there is only one ref to anything like significant coverage (the one from FIGHT! Magazine) but as that is from an organisation without it's own WP article it is hard to judge if it is both a WP:RS and how independent it is from Sherdog as the site appears to carry a lot of Sherdog content. Other refs included the statement "the country's largest Web site devoted to mixed martial arts" in the context of quoting a member of staff, however it is unclear what the source of that claim is and is it backed up. Mtking (edits)  23:31, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ref Improve + Notability 

message: Hope that helps.
:D  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.100.67.56 (talk) 14:09, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added a bit, to address the impartiality issue. 

message: I was just glazing over Volk Han's entry and inspired by user:Jacee215, I've begin to wonder about legitimacy of Sherdog and its MMA records. While Magomedkhan "Volk Han" Gamzatkhanov is certainly is a capable Martial Artist, he has mostly amassed his wins from Fighting Network Rings, which was known as a professional wrestling company advocating Shoot-style pro wrestling prior to changing to MMA in 1995. It is also not certain if RINGS was fully legitimate after 1995. There are people people who feel stuff from 1995 onwards is "worked" and can point when the fakeness in the fight occurs. Yet Sherdog has his 1995 onwards career in there: What's more, it was promoted by known pro wrestler Akira Maeda, who even has MMA stats in Sherdog as well. While it may seem like this is a "Fighting Network Rings" problem (as I have no other kayfabe or fixed fights to think of), it does make me question why would they have stats of *potential* fake fighters there? --TrickShotFinn (talk) 17:04, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Reliability was discussed in October 2020 on the reliable sources noticeboard; see Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 318#Sherdog.com. – wbm1058 (talk) 16:09, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  How reliable is Sherdog really?