ahh..crap..fedor signed a $5,000,000 contract with heros?

Another one who doesnt know wtf he's talking about.

 

rofl

 

Well, the UFC does have the experience factor in its favor...plus plenty more arms and legs than Fedor does. It also outweighs him by several tons, and has a better resume than any other fighter out there. Decisioned Tim Sylvia, KO'd Crocop, KO'd Arlovski, stopped Royce Gracie, and choked out Ken Shamrock...all in all, it has hundreds of fights on its record, although strangely it has a 50/50 win-loss ratio.

I don't blame Fedor for ducking the UFC...it's a dangerous contender.

 

Care to expand upon this and explain why you think other wise, before you attempt to, factor in that i consider fedor to be one of the best mma fighters of all time and have nothign but respect for him as a fighter. even thgouh im biased towards him its obvious the only reason he moved is due to the money, i think personally it was the best thing for him to do and anyone else would have done the same given the same opportunity.

 

I love Fedor, and no doubt he is the best fighter today, period. He said he wanted to fight the best and the most money was from the UFC. His hold up was he was to compete in the Combat Sambo championships repping Russia, I GUESS that was the deciding factor as UFC doesn't want you to compete outside UFC events.




What a bunch of ****ing busll****.


Damn.

 

Its obvious some people don't have a concept of national pride. Would you guys give up something you believe in just to please a bunch of foreigners that will have neither positive nor negative effect on your life?
Do you guys realize that the world is much bigger then just the US? Do you think that in Fedors world he will not be respected and admired and looked upon as a legend? How ignorant can we americans be?
He wants to Represent HIS country in HIS sport (Combat Sambo) obviously that is too much for the UFC, so as anybody would do, he will go else where to do business. Its logical and makes business sense for Fedor.
Get over it, if you are mad write Dana and tell him to accept the terms. Why should Fedor bow to Dana? Because he is the UFC? Stop. It sucks but thats how business is, if it don't make sense don't do it. Bottom line.

 

Welcome to the world, where nobody, including Russia really gives much of a **** about combat sambo. In Russia Sambo=failed Judoka's, sad but true. But don't give me any of this **** about about it being for mother Russia, Russia doesnt give a **** about Sambo, and Sambo doesn't give a **** about Combat Sambo.

 

You think he give a **** if he gets 5mil or 6mil for 5 fights? He's already got support for his family and 3 generations after. It has nothing to do with offer. Plus for people who haven't idea, UFC deal was THE MOST LUCRATIVE. Meaning he would get the most money from UFC. He's concern was promoting the sport in Russia. He doesn't give a rats ass about coming to america or fighting the top competition. He also doesn't promote himself as best p4p fighter, he's too humble for that.
Heroes are a lot more flexible with their negotiations. And seeing Dana's behavior from before im not surprised.
Sambo is not huge, but its a popular sport. Fedor is the face of MMA and Sambo in Russia. How are Russian people gona feel if their fighter goes to fight in America exlusively? Especially with America's foreign policy(meaning america is not liked by foreigners much right now).
Fedor is normal Russian guy who cares for his country. I say **** UFC if they dont wanna work with him in promoting the sport in country with lots of combat history and TONS of potential.

If it was Couture in Fedors place right now, he'd be doing exactly same thing for America. And i would respect him for it.

 

You wrote what you read, you didn't really write irrefutable fact.

I think what I wrote is irrefutable fact. No rematch with Cro, no Couture, no Gonzaga, no great small guys - these sort of fights would happen in the UFC and help his legacy and no sane person would disagree.

It is very nice what he wants to do (help Russia) but he has to sacrifice his legacy.

He is the best at the moment but just like that Gonzaga could beat Couture and be a real threat to who the best is.

If Fedor went to the UFC and beat the guys I mentioned, I see it being very hard for anyone to outrank him at heavy for a LONG time.

 

Iv said it already and il say it again K1 will become the premier MMA org in the east.Now that PRIDE is gone those fighters that were once fighting for PRIDE will make the move to hero`s. Theres many names that wont be in the UFC who`s only option is hero`s.

 

This is another angle we need to explore - K1.

How powerful are they?

 

I don't mean to insult Fedor or Combat Sambo, you can't really blame Fedor too much, but **** it's incredibly dissapointing. :|

Even taking away the possibility of Fedor becoming the first unified Heavyweight champion, essentially MMA's John L. Sullivan, just watching Fedor GnP in a cage with elbows would be like watching Jordan play basketball, Clapton play guitar, or Rick James doing coke off a stripper.

 

its so obvious fedor is afraid of fighting in the UFC. he will fight much better fighters and will evventuallly lose.

 

Yhype is going back to his ******ed gimmick again.

 

No, what you posted was basicly an insult towards fedor. You basicly said he's in it just for the money. Right after the post i made that actually says completely opposite. What you posted is DEFINITELY not a fact. What i posted is based off resources from both Dana's side and Fedor's side. Plus, What you said doesn't even make sense because if he was in it for the money he WOULD go to UFC because again they offered richest contract to him. So its OBVIOUS that he's not in it for the money.

Now as for K1, its HUGE. Especially after pride got bought all its fans are now only have Heroes plus some other lame little orgs. K1 seats around 40000 people a show. UFC's records is like 20000 or something. So here's some numbers for you. They're not as big on PPV though i dont think. Not sure.

Yea, its very upsetting news if it is true. But I understand Fedor if he chooses to the best course for this sport in Russia and not his legacy. I give him mad respect for that.