Comments on: Strikeforce's Fedor Emelianenko Outranks UFC's Brock Lesnar in Business Week Power 100. Really?

By: Bobbyclumsyninja

Bobbyclumsyninja — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:40:45 +0000

Lesnar in the US, Fedor everywhere else in the world. Being known in the USA is important, but lesnar hasn’t proven he can continue to hack it, in the big leagues of MMA. Hell, he got his condition most likely from cutting too much water weight, too often. He has to cut to even make the UFC heavyweight bracket. That doesn’t speak well to his future earning potential.

That and because he’s a horrible douchbag in personality, Brock’s growth overseas will be slower than here in the US. Being a dick, is more popular here, that many other nations. That and he’s only 4 and 1. No one really knows if he’ll stay around or if he’ll 1)lose and fade away 2) quit like he did wrestling 3) get cut like from football, for being a hard-to-manage prick.

By: MADNESS

MADNESS — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:06:54 +0000

Worlds most powerfull fighter ,this is not the Worlds strongest man or a power competition.
Fedor does speak English it’s not great .

By: Helder Correia

Helder Correia — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:44:32 +0000

I think Fedor deserves trully a better rank than Lesnar….

You just need to think… If Fedor fights in Japan / Europe / Russia…there will be thousans of ppl watching…”he´s a god status in japan”

Lesnar is only profitable ( and recognise as a great mma fighter ) in us and i think there is not that big difference in us…between Fedor and Lesnar!

and i think fedor is already prove he is a tough guy…very hard to beat ( or impossible ) and lesnar if he lost is ufc title ( and he already lost 1 fight )…where he is gone stand ?

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:49:40 +0000

Good point! But Business Week shouldn’t have taken his ownership stake in M-1 into account. At least, they excluded all non-athletes from the list, like promoters Dana White, Scott Coker, and Vadim Finkelchtein. So, theoretically, they should’ve excluded income Emelianenko derrives from managing and promoting other fighters from his earnings potential. If they’re only ranking athletes, then they should only consider income derrived from their athletic endeavors and associated sponsorships. Otherwise, you’d have to take into account all the athletes’ investment portfolios – money they earn from a car dealership they own or a stake in Ford, etc. – and that’s impossible and irrelevant to what they’re ranking the athletes for.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:11:25 +0000

What you haven’t taken into account is that Fedor also owns a stake of M1-Global which has several fighters under it’s banner as well as co-promoting events. I’m sure this figures into his potential for money