The Snowden says Kaufman should know her role and shut her mouth

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On the heels of an impressive victory at Saturday night's Strikeforce Challengers 9, Sarah Kaufman should be riding high. Instead, she finds herself under the microscope of renowned nitpicker Jonathan Snowden from BloodyElbow.com. Today. Snowden wrote a scathing piece condemning "jabroni" Kaufman for daring to speak out against what she feels is Strikeforce's lack of commitment to Women's MMA.

This moment of glory, however, wasn't enough for Kaufman. In a triumphant victory speech she managed not just to insult Strikeforce,  among the first national promotions in the world to take a chance on women in the cage, but also every other fighter on the card.

"Get me on main cards on Showtime," Kaufman said. "I think I deserve it. Put me on there."

Just last year Kaufman was plucked from obscurity by Strikeforce to fight on national television against Miesha Tate, filling in for Kim Couture at the last minute. It was a big jump from taking fights in Vernon, British Columbia, but Kaufman apparently feels she's moved beyond other developing stars like Shane Del Rosario and Bobby Voelker and all the other fighters she threw under the bus last night and earlier in the week at her blog:

Snowden feels that, despite being a champion, Kaufman should be happy to fight in relative obscurity. She should be ecstatic that her title fight wasn't even the main event of the card. He believes that her desires to fight on the better Strikeforce cards are a diss to other fighters on the Challengers cards. Well, no diss to the other fighters but THEY AREN'T A CHAMPION.

A woman who saw the crowd abandon the building like it was on fire in her last fight, in a sport that has seen a grand total of one woman able to draw a significant audience, was actually complaining about Strikeforce putting her in the co-main event of a nationally televised card.  The ego on display there is staggering.

Numbers talk. And Kaufman's main event at Challengers 6 against Hashi was watched by just 150,000 fans. The next two Challengers shows doubled that number. Kaufman is in the right place-with other prospective stars looking to attract a following. And the Challengers cards are actually an enormous opportunity for Kaufman and other main eventers in these under the radar cards.

An interesting statement here by Snowden, "numbers talk". According to Snowden just yesterday, Anderson Silva is a poor draw. The same talking numbers say that he is the worst drawing champion by almost double. Should Anderson Silva be shunned to the undercard? No. Viewers turned away during a Jake Shields' title fight on CBS, should he have been relegated to Challengers-level cards? It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Kaufman will continue to not draw viewers because Strikeforce refuses to promote her on the main cards. Strikeforce doesn't promote her on the main cards because she doesn't draw viewers. And round we go.

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