Comments on: Fighters.com's August Heavyweight Rankings: UFC Dishonest About Fedor Emelianenko's Demands

By: abdul

abdul — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:15:15 +0000

Here are my rankings for the heavyweights in the world.
1. Shane Carwin: this guy combine sheer power, agility, and strength for a guy his size and is gonna go down undefeated
2. Cain Valasquez: He’s a worrior and eventhough he has not faught the likes of Shane, and brock I believe that he’s so far impress me and others he’s gonna be a tough matchup for anyone
3. Brock Lesnar: Only because he’s the heavyweight champ. If he fight Carwin he has Zero chance of retaining his title
4. Junior Santos: Strong boxing skills, stregth and all around good fighter
5. Fedor Emilinko: The man has not fought anyone and yet he’s being regard as the best pound for pound, overated and has no chance against my top 4 on this list

By: Arlovski

Arlovski — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:37:13 +0000

This article and the above posts are indicative of illiteracy in America and general educational levels of MMA fans. The writer and the posters are all ignorant when it comes to understanding how businesses work.

We have no idea about M-1′s offer to the UFC, but we could take educated guesses.

1) M-1 did NOT ask for 50% membership stake in Zuffa LLC in exchange for letting Fedor fight in the UFC. THIS IS CRAZY!!!

2) What M-1 potentially wanted a joint venture. A form of partnership whereby M-1 and UFC would take profit shares in co-promoted events. The venue could be the octagon. But it has to be UFC & M-1 event. M-1 would pocket money for its fighters: Fedor, Mousasi, Baby Fedor, Aleks, and Zentsov, and UFC would pocket money for Lesnar, Shogun, Antoni Hardonk, Dos Santos, Justin McCully. The profit will not be split 50/50. It would be more like 70/30 (UFC getting 70). M-1 will then pay its fighters salary. Fedor would get $300k. Then M-1 would distribute the rest as profit to Vladim and Fedor, potentially $3 million each. THIS IS HOW CO-PROMOTION WORKS!

3) Fedor is NOT afraid of fighting Brock. He is in love with money. He would fight Brock only if he can get paid $3million. UFC in no way will pay Fedor $3million. UFC probably offered $600k~$1million. This was NOT enough for Fedor.

4) Jay Houston above is the most sensible of all you illiterate morons.

By: Jay Houston

Jay Houston — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:45:21 +0000

The reason for Fedor’s decision comes down this: what he would have to give up to sign a contract with UFC simply is not worth what he would gain. If it was worth it, he would have signed. So obviously what he has now but would have to do without means more to him than what UFC has offered. Simple as that. And besides, Fedor doesn’t have to prove anything to anyone, & us fans know it.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:17:25 +0000

I would love to see Fedor come to UFC to fight the best and prove he’s the best. At the same time I don’t blame Dana White for protecting everything he’s worked so hard for. Does it put any curiousity in your mind why at Fedor’s rise and height in Pride they went belly up? Makes me wonder whose truly greedy Fedor or those who manage him.

By: gforce

gforce — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:49:22 +0000

Fedor has a share in M-1 Global until he gets free of that company he will never fight in the UFC. How can M-1 global expect to creat a deal with the UFC. As The Guy has already stated at the top they have taken down 2 other organisation. The UFC has covered themselves by not letting another company in and taking away profits. Dana is hard to deal with but look at the UFC now. Dana has been one of the reasons why the UFC is become a mainstream sport. He is opening it to new fans and countrys and why would he sign with m-1 global with the track record.

By: Jon in Jersey

Jon in Jersey — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:30:14 +0000

Yeah, I saw that literally right after I finished posting. Oh well. Whatever… I have Showtime. I’ll tune into the Strikeforce fights, like I always do anyway, and root for the underdog each time out. I know Dana White can be hard to deal with… and maybe he deserves this… but I can’t help it, at this point I hope Strikeforce somehow just goes belly up directly because of this signing (although, I don’t think that will happen).

By: Chad Edward

Chad Edward — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:15:32 +0000

I’m not defending anyone and you can read elsewhere on this site where I’ve said there’s really only one legitimate place for Fedor to fight and that’s in the UFC. I’m just tired of hearing everyong say that Fedor and Vadim are demanding 50% of the UFC. They’re not. And, yes, Dana White made that implication in the same way Iole did during the media conference call last Friday. I didn’t say Iole was fed anything, but his analysis was so similar to Dana White’s talking points from Friday’s call, he was obviously influenced by it without checking the facts with M-1 Global. It’s all moot now. Fedor signed with Strikeforce about 10 minutes after I posted this.

By: Jon in Jersey

Jon in Jersey — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:53:12 +0000

Chad,
I don’t think the UFC actually ever said anything about contract specifics, at least in terms of hard numbers. So don’t blame them. Could they have leaked info to Iole and other? Perhaps, but we can’t say for sure. But specific numbers aside, bottom line is, we know that the people who manage Fedor and run M1 are a bunch of douche bags. Seriously. They’re not even worth SEMI-defending. If they don’t eventually sign w/ UFC in the next few weeks, I truly hope that Fedor fades away in mediocrity. Do I say that because I live inside the butt of UFC? No, but it’s a fact that the VAST majority of the worlds strongest fighters are contracted w/ the UFC. That’s where Fedor should be fighting. If he only beats hasbeens and nobodys, that proves nothing. Does Dana White have scum bag potential? Sure. Has he been a scumbag in the past top Fedor and M1? Probably. And is he doing almost everything he can (within reason) to get Fedor to sign w/ the UFC? i think it’s safe to assume that yes, he is.

By: Chad Edward

Chad Edward — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:01:02 +0000

That’s not exactly what M-1 wanted, though they did want a bigger piece of the action than is standard in UFC contracts.

By: The Guy

The Guy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:44:36 +0000

How on earth is Arlovski ranked 10th ?

M-1 wanted 50-50 in the PPV cut , that sounds pretty unreasonable to me since they have already taken down two other major fight companies.

Fedor is scared about losing his legacy, even if Brock only has a 30% chance, Fedor is hiding.