Fedor

Lava · A List Star

Fedor

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Well, I think he will, but he's definetly playing hardball....

Fedor Emelianenko is universally regarded as the top heavyweight, if not the top overall, fighter in the mixed martial arts world. Ever since the purchase of Pride FC by Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, whos Zuffa, LLC, also owns the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Fedor has also become the most highly sought after fighter on the planet.

The longtime heavyweight champion in Pride, the promotions demise has left Fedor with no other choice but to look elsewhere for employment. The popular assumption of course is that he will end up in the UFC fold along with most of the other top fighters from the Pride organization.

With Fedors management team reportedly having met with UFC officials earlier this week, the widespread speculation has been that terms were reached and that it was all but a done deal that Fedor would soon fight in the Octagon.

According to a report by Sherdog.coms Josh Gross, that is not necessarily so. Fedors management team said that while the UFC offer is the most lucrative offer that the MMAWeekly.com #1 ranked heavyweight has received, there are still several sticking points that have kept them from recommending their client sign with the sports largest promotion in the world.

As has long been speculated, Apy Echteld, one of Fedors managers, confirmed that the UFCs requirement of exclusivity is still one of the reasons that the deal has not been approved, as well as the contract not being guaranteed. These are very important points to Fedor and several other organizations vying for his services are willing to concede them according to Echteld.

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

There is a rumour flying around the Forum boards that fedor has signed for a 4 fight deal worth 1.8 mill a fight!?!? He apparantly can do the Sambo Tourney's but no Russian PPV.

They are supposedly gonna announce this before the main event at UFC 75. I am going to ask Dana at the Press conference Thursday if this is really true. I have also, just emailed my guy at UFC to see if he will tell me.

I found this on MMA Playground, but it seems to be everywhere already.

Mr_Emelianenko · On The Casting Couch

I saw this on MMA playground aswell.

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Dana at the press conference mentioned that Randy was now flying over on Friday especially to be at UFC 75.... Dounno wether we should read into that.. Anyway Im off later Im well excited!!!

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Seems here's the reason why he STILL hasn't signed...

According to the M-1 office, Finkelstein and UFC negotiated terms of a contract that would allow the PRIDE Heavyweight champion to fight in the Octagon. M-1 claims that the negotiations were a success and that the parties agreed to what the terms of the UFC contract would be. However, M-1 claims that when UFC sent the contract to their office, the terms of the deal were âabsolutely differentâ than what had been negotiated and that management did not agree on what was stated in the contract. This is why, according to M-1, Fedor has not signed a contract with UFC.

And with Elite XTC and that new organisation run by the guy from the Dallas Mavericks they ought to get a move on and sort this soon. Although I think that Fedor will eventually sign because the UFC currently is the only organization with any level of competition for him. I suppose it's a bit of a waiting game really. maybe Dana will surprise us this weekend at UFC 76.

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

Fedor's Opponent Announced

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

So Fedor ducks a decent opponent again and fights another walk over. I'm seriously not buying into the legend of Fedor. If you ask me (Although he would have probably won) Jeff Monson would have been a serious proposition. He's a very credible wrestler, tough guy and incredible submissions.

Looks like M-1 is a flash in the pan too.

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

I've been saying that M-1 was a joke since it started. I think that Fedor is the only reason that this company is even in business, and their signings are all really jokes. In my opinion, none of the guys were major steals. Barnett was not welcome back in the UFC, and Rizzo and Monson already had their shots and didn't prove that they deserved to be there. As far as Fedor goes, Dana says that he was only going to sign him for Randy, and for some reason, I believe him. I don't know why, but I just do. I really think that Fedor is very overrated, and I don't know if he would have beaten Monson either.

I don't know how this Choi dude is going to fare against Fedor, but he has some things that could give him fits. First, it says he is a wrestler. While I doubt that he is Olympic calibur, wrestlers have always been able to push Fedor around (Lindland, Coleman). He is also gigantic, and according to the article, he just keeps getting bigger. I don't know how much bigger he can get, he's already 7-2, 350+! I don't know if it really will, but the size could give Fedor some fits. This guy outweighs him by more than 100 pounds and is more than a foot taller than him.

-- Edited by David McKinney at 16:10, 2007-11-20

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Fedor

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

Here is the info you are looking for DM-

M-1 Global Management Team

Minority Owners-Vadim Finkelstein and Apy Echteld...these are the same guys that owned M-1.

President and CEO-MMA 'superagent' Monte Cox (I believe this is who you are talking about)

Chairman-Broadway producer Mitchell Maxwell (lmao...what does he know about MMA?)

Financial Backer-Scientologist money maven Michael Baybak (lmao again...this means that Scientologist crazies Tom Cruise and Brook Shields could be ringside at M-1 events.