Horrible decision cutting a top 5 welterweight from the UFC. It is amazing what one loss can do to even a damn good fighter with a ton of heart. I hope Jon can continue success elsewhere.
"A source close to the situation told Sherdog.com that Fitch had refused to sign an agreement that would have relinquished his likeness rights for video games. " WTF?
Damn thats pretty gay I mean you release him but keep ****ing Josh Burkman,Jorge Gurgel guys who are almost always losing.
Good ol UFC. They always do whats best for themselves when a fighter doesn't sign his life away to them.
Pretty messed up thing to do. Fitch is a hell of a fighter and deserves better than than. Dana can be such a **** sucker some times.
Whats this sport about Dana? The fighters and the Craft.....or the ****ing merchandise and video games for the UFCs profit? I usually read these stories about the Big Bad Wolf (Dana) bullying the fighters and all and just kinda turn my shouler....but this story really should wake some people up! Fitch is a damn good fighter with a win over the #3 WW and has given St Pierre his toughest fight since BJ. And they cut him???
LOL.....Dana is spiraling out of control. Sure the UFC is still decently strong in terms of sponsors, marketing and revenue but it can only last so long with a owner like Dana. He's too much of a control freak....he's trying to monopolize MMA as a whole and feels that every fighter under the UFC is his property and can do with them as he pleases!:rofl What a ****ing Clown...... I gurantee Affliction is going to make a HUGE run for his money in the coming years and much of the UFC stable will turn their backs on Dana who has a strong history of being a DICK!. MMA is wide the **** open now that M1 and Affliction are getting a foothold on the sport. They are doing things differently than the UFC and I think that outfit will do better by the figthers they "REPRESENT"...not fighters they feel they "OWN".
Nah...fedor is a smart man. He sees right through Dana's method of recuriting talent and how he treats them once they are under his contract. Fedor is doing the right thing by challenging the UFC with DLH's Affliction and M1. Honeslty it's only a matter of time before M-1 is neck and neck with UFC and eventually over takes the #1 spot. Dana is more like a dictator than a president or CEO. In the US and most of the world the way Dana is controling his fighters and treating them won't last...eventually they'll get tired of how they are treated and take their talents elsewhere. Fitch will go to M-1....and so will many other UFC fighters in the upcoming months/years.