Strikeforce bought out by zuffa!

Guys like Mayhem and Nick Diaz and Overeem who like to fight in Japan (Overeem owning Dreams belt) will not be aloud to anymore. I find it hard to believe that NOT having control over your own image and career is good for a fighter.

 

Well, I'm done with MMA.

 

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Barnett is screwed and overeem will be gone. There is no way overeem will sign an exclusive deal with the ufc. Overeem wants the freedom to fight in Japan and won't give that up.

 

No. Business's have aggressive acquisition programs when they know a rival company is making a significant dent in their market share. Because of the paranoid and overtly aggressive nature of Dana White he's seen SF as legitimate threat.
What im more surprised at is Coker. He must have made him a significant deal for Coker to accept their terms.(Or maybe held a gun to his head) Either way this is bad BAD news for MMA's future and longevity. I cannot believe anyone here is fool hardly to think this is good for the sport of MMA when its still in its early stages.

And why was this kept soooooo quiet?!?!? This reeks of some shady underhanded Casino back door deal where Coker pulled the wrong hand and the stacked odd's ****ed him.

You just cannot expect to run ONE single fight promotion in a sport and then think that's good for the fighters, good for the fans, or even good for the lifeblood of the sport. Thats ridiculous to the point of naive. I don't understand what kind of competition laws the states has as to monopolization but this is ridiculous. A rich Mafia casino benefactor with an endless stream of liquidity but fans think Dana is some business genius? A SPORT owned by Casino owners?!?! Genuinely laughable.
You honestly cannot expect a sport like this to be seen legitimately. Or be taken legitimately when its run by a ****ing Casino Oligarch. This is terrible news for MMA.
Il NEVER support another Zuffa event again.

 

Looks the same for me. This is like the equivalent of watching the Scottish Premier League. We KNOW what happens. Rangers, Celtic year in year out..........................................O yeah and the rest. I think im done with this sport. Its glory years are well and truly over.

 

Overeem will go back to whats left of the K-1 circuit for good more than likely. Barnett too will head back to Japan on weak Japanese wrestling promotions that no one really cares about. Fedor will retire. And the rest who don't have interests elsewhere will be integrated into the brand same as the other fighters from WFA WEC PRIDE etc.

 

After the Showtime contract ends. StrikeFoce will stay. It will become the training ground for the UFC. They will keep StrikeForce Challengers.... for the up coming fighters. The name fighers will be in the UFC. Lets not forget that Dana and Zuffa have talked about an all MMA ((UFC)) TV. Dana said no..but wont be shocked if in another year that Bellator will fall next.

 

No. It wont. The UFC will dissolve SF. Once they have acquired what they want and the legal side of the acquisition is completed SF will be a distant memory.
There is absolutely no incentive to keep SF once all fight contracts have been migrated and outstanding ones terminated via expiration.

If Bellator ever becomes a direct threat to the UFC the UFC will do the same as they have the capital and market influence. This is assuming they don't implode first which is the more likely scenario. Either way its academic. The UFC now has a monopoly on the sport of MMA.

 

End of an era MMA officially becomes Ultimate Fighting.

I really like Coker seems a very likable and honest Promoter (surely there isn't such a thing) I hope It all works out for him sadly I see Strikeforce folding once their deal on Showtime expires no matter what White is saying now Zuffa want to monopolise MMA anyone would be really naive to think different.

 

Well the fact is that if they kept StrikeForce Challeng...they could get young fighters on TV and have them fight, fighters of there lvl. Wold be a smart move to keep StrikeFoce Challeng. Start there and move on to the UFC.
The UFC has talked about UFC Gyms opening. That way train the fighters and then get them on the StrikeForce show. Just what I think could happen. Would be a smart move.

 

another thing, say goodbye to the dream of a fighter making top boxer level money, with no competition or the ability to sell themselves directly to fans, ufc will take a huge cut off the top.

no ufc fighter will EVER make de la hoya, tyson, pacquiao or mayweather money per fight.

or even a career for one of those fighters.

 

This for me is a significant reason why this sports longevity will diminish. There is absolutely no incentive for fighters to engage in a sport that makes them peanuts.
There's actually a very good argument to say fighters pay will go down. As at the end of the day there are simply no other options and no competition.
I can't see ANY UFC fighter ever becoming a global phenom.

Iv said it before the glory years of MMA are over and i was beaten down for it. But with this acquisition i feel somewhat vindicated with my stance as there's no way this sport can truly be a global one if its controlled by ONE franchise. No other sport has a scenario as ridiculous as MMA. MMA now IS THE UFC. Bad news from top to bottom. Competition is imperative for the life blood of any sport.
Who knows boxing might do well off the back of this

 

Forget all personal bias and whether this is good or bad for mma bla bla bla, is this actually allowed? I don't know a lot about this osrt of thing but i always thought buyouts like this were stopped if it created too much of a monopoly in an industry

 

Obviously it is or the deal wouldn't have taken place. Zuffa is not held accountable to a regulator. They can't be as there a business entity who can do as they please. They're not run by a unified set of rules or a league.
And the fact is who is there to oppose it? The fans?! There is no one.

What id like to know is "how" was this kept in the dark for so long. Was this a recent deal as in less than 6 months worth of negotiations? SF was clearly liquid and profitable so why did Coker sell out? Did he want out of the business? Are the UFC hoping to build something in Asia and use Coker as the conduit for that?
What about all the business relationships that have soured because of Dana's behaviour and the aggressiveness of the UFC?
This whole business as usual is ploy. As it clearly CANNOT be BAU. There's too many implications to consider here now that Zuffa have complete control. But im way more interested in finding out Cokers reasons for selling up when his organisation was having its most successful marketing year ever. Im not sure what their revenue was like but id hazard a good guess that Q4 last year must have been pretty good especially off the back of Overeems success.