UFC & Affliction Merged!

[Wet Bandit]

Quote: Originally Posted by goh

Who did he ever beat in Pride that was a top fighter in their prime besides Nog and Cro Cop?

That's kinda the dirty little secret behind Fedor's success. He fought two premiere heavyweights (Big Nog, Crocop), a couple of gatekeepers (Coleman, Randleman, Herring), and a lot of cans. I think someone can easily make the case that the UFC's heavyweight division right now is better than Pride's was four or five years ago. It'd sure be nice to see how Fedor would do against some of these guys, but he's more of a businessman now than a fighter.

And that denial was sort of a non-denial. The M-1 CEO was very clear that he wasn't offered $5 mil per fight guaranteed. And that's probably true. The UFC doesn't guarantee that sort of money to anyone. Even their top stars aren't really guaranteed more than $500,000 per fight.

But the top stars get the bulk of their money from a cut of the PPV revenues of the PPVs they headline, and that cut has been a couple million for some fighters in the past. It's easy to imagine the UFC offering PPV cuts that, assuming Fedor was main eventing for the entire contract, that could have totaled around $30 million including the base salary.

But it's easy to imagine those cuts also not being guaranteed. If Fedor came in and got beat a couple times, I doubt the UFC would have kept giving him a cut of PPVs.

[TwelveozPlaya21]

I hope Fedor signs with the UFC, so when brock lesner smashes his face in and keeps the belt we don't have to hear about fedor anymore.

[judgejudy]

Those M-1 idiots, why don’t they just give Fedor to the UFC because they’ve offered him the best money?

[TwelveozPlaya21]

I watched Fedor fight tim silvia today on comcast sportsnet they had the one ppv on Banned, and I have to laugh Tim Silvia is the worst HW in the world, he has no form, he just is a big giant with no talent.

[bkfount]

Quote: Originally Posted by TwelveozPlaya21

I watched Fedor fight tim silvia today on comcast sportsnet they had the one ppv on Banned, and I have to laugh Tim Silvia is the worst HW in the world, he has no form, he just is a big giant with no talent.

he was a deer in headlights.

[MC Fatigue]

Just came across this:

[TwelveozPlaya21]

Quote: Originally Posted by Timmay

Just came across this:

so funny.

[Brian Gee]

LOL. Watching that fight was the most frustrated I've ever been watching a fight. I expected something epic (because the guy running always puts on a fun fight), but he was trying to prove a point or something and decided to run the entire time....

Is Fedor still making an announcement today?