It starts... Daley threatening to pull out of Diaz fight...

EA definitely had the financial clout to make a go of an MMA franchise in the long term imo. Unless they go back to the old Fifa days of making up their own fighters this seems to be dead in the water in the long term.
During the next round of contracts negotiations the likes of Melendez and Diaz ect are still gonna have to sign the 'My way or the highway' type deals Zuffa offered and what is the alternative? Reem & Barnett are obviously gonna tell Dana to go **** himself. But the point of the HW tourney and the DREAM co pros was to get the best of the rest so to speak together under one banner. DREAM and K1 seems to be on its last legs too. What next for them and their ilk?

And I was being mildly sarcastic about Brock v Fedor. Which seems to be the main issue in the other thread from yesterday. Some people need to see the bigger picture ASAP

 

I think there might be enough fighters who will not be allowed or will not go back to the UFC to bolster another organisation making it a legitmate contender eventually in the way strikeforce became.

At the end of the day Dana White is a business man and people like fighters like Daley and Reem they are exciting charismatic and thats what sells. If it does come to a merger i think there will be a high profile beef then hell bring them in to huge ppv numbers

 

As far as watching the sport in the future I guess the more educated fans know the real deal from the Zuffa hype jobs. But 5/10 years down the line these boundaries are gonna get very blurry indeed

 

props to dailey for standing up against douchebag ****er dana white

 

You do realise that EA Sports MMA flopped hard? I'd be stunned if we get a sequel let alone EA suing to keep the rights

 

Christ Scru you can be such a ****ing mark sometimes.

Are you actually naive enough to believe that Dana hates EA? That was ****ing spin to try to bury the company and its game to MMA fans. Look at what happened to his threats to blacklist anybody who signed for that games - nothing came of it! Because of that there are already guys in the UFC who are collecting royalties from EA Sports MMA - if they're letting Jake Shields pick up his check, there's no reason for them to stop Dan Henderson.

The issue will be if they want to do a second game, and that's something I could see them wanted to stop - afterall why create competition for your own product? But I can't see EA even wanting to make a game after how few copies the last one sold.

 

Will the people who are anti Zuffa bought the EA MMA game rather than Undisputed. That took money from Dana's pocket. Based on that you make up your own mind whether Mr White would have it in for them or not.

They picked up Shield to spite SF, and show who's the real Daddy after the Hendo coup. **** all to do with the game. He's hardly a PPV draw is he

And above all that, without the named fighters to front their games. what has EA got? As you said it wasnt a success, but EA had the money to persevere. Half the point of these games is to play as Fedor or who ever your favourite fighter is and that is the main basis of the marketing. Now to do that, you will have to buy the UFC game or no game at all

 

What Daley is going to have ta do, is go on a win streak that will force the hand of Zuffa to re-sign him. He needs to ICE Nick like nobody has ever done. I don't see it. Most of the other fighters that are not liked via the UFC need to just crush everyone once the UFC sucks up Strikeforce.

 

:deal

 

True but the issue is does Daley need the UFC more than they needs him? He'll be frozen out whether he honours his contact and sparks the entire Strikeforce division in under a minute. He's ****ed and he's too proud/big headed to apologise and go cap in hand to Dana

 

my god you zuffa haters are getting tired. are you all gonna cry yourselves to sleep now? and **** paul daley. no one will care if he leaves strikeforce.