I believe there is a slight difference. TUF is essentially, journeymen-average-quite good fighters fighting one another to find a place in the UFC. Thats cool, no problem with that. This is a complete no name inexperienced random......well, I won't even call them a journeyman, it could be a nobody, fighting the supposed number 1 HW fighter in the world and as some people label him as 'the greatest'. You see the difference there? Do you honestly think its acceptable that a fighter of Fedor's standing in the MMA world (Rapidly declining though it may be) should be fighting that level of competition? Cause I don't.
Where's the part that says nobody's? Serra got a title at GSP. Everyone would've bet their house, a dog, and a little sister on GSP but look what happened.
The difference between TUF and this scam is that TUF is for a UFC contract, not a title shot against the world's #1 HW. If GSP mashes Serra (which he will), then leaves the UFC, starts his own promotion, and hosts a 16-man tournament of a bunch of random bums he signed to see who gets the next shot at him, people would be calling him out left and right. The tournament idea is shitty because M-1 has NO talent pool. If they do get a "16 man tournament" worth a ****, it'll be 15 bums and Josh Barnett.
And your obsession of defending your beloved Fedor even if he fights woman and children is even less healthy
One contemptuous, dismissive line is hardly the same as feverishly scouring the web looking for 'disparaging' stories/rumors about an athlete and writing (daily) incoherent frothing at the mouth commentarys'. Or is it? You tell me.
no, but the same rhetoric everyday basically saying Fedor can do no wrong is......if he really goes through with this nonsense and fights some guy who wins this "heavyweight tourny" will you then at least say enough is enough......or will you still think he is GOD
So now you and Co. are on a campaign to stop people from having Fedor as one of their favorites? :rofl
first of all, it gives people a dream that they get to fight fedor not even mentioning they have a chance against him, god i will feel glorified to even tap gloves with him as a fighter you can have so many years, any fighter will pick money over competition what you die hard ufc fans dont understand is that ufc is very restrictive and underpays some fighter and over pays others(like how the **** brock lesnar gets more than most vets in ufc) and in m-1 they can fight in other stuff while earning more money(deal for deal i will pick m-1 too competition or not)
they have to allow M1 fighters to fight in other orgs because M1 has **** all for fighters. And yeah it gives people a dream to fight Fedor.....people who shouldn't be in the same ring with him...
Firstly, I did not 'feverishly scour the web', I simply clicked on the front page of Sherdog, the biggest and most popular MMA website in the world, with 140,000 members, far far larger than any boxing website could hope to be, not exactly 'scouring' the web is it? I don't need to 'look' for disparaging stories about Fedor, they pretty much come to me as Fedor's career descends into farce and circus. So? That doesn't mean they should get to fight him. Fedor is already a multi millionaire, he's only 31, why is he being greedy and ducking good fighters? Not to mention the UFC deal monetarily was pretty equal to what he's getting paid now. So he went to an org for equal money to face......a guy with 1 MMA against Bobby Ologun and now some complete random reality TV contestant. UFC pays its fighters on average a hell of a lot better than any other MMA organizations out there. I just read the payouts of the recent Bodog card. It was utter ****. It's basic economics, the UFC pays you for what you're worth ie; how many butts you get in seats, the simple fact of the matter is, that the vast majority of people at that UFC and who bought the PPV did it to see Brock Lesnar, thats market economics. More money? like who? They only have 1 fighter and have only had 1 event.(which wasn't even a proper M1 event, they only lent out there lone fighter, they didn't even organize or pay for the event) Of course it looks like they're paying fighters better, its pretty easy when theres only 1 fighter on the payroll. Lets seen how well M1 does when they actually get more fighters. I assure, M1 does not make enough money to pay any more fighters and an average fighter will certainly not make more money at M1 than they would in the UFC or EliteXC, or Strikeforce or hell......any of those major orgs in the US. AT least those orgs are relatively well known by the mainstream and have PPV. M1 has nothing. What if all the other MMA organizations don't want to do cross promotion huh? What if they realize that M1 is the joke that it is and that signing a deal with them offers nothing? I get the impression that M1 is in existence to ride the coat tails of other orgs and leech off them just to give Fedor a fight. If the other orgs don't bite then M1 is ****ed.
Fedor needs to fight Barnett, he's the best heavyweight he hasn't beaten yet. Hopefully this leads to that.
MMA heavies are slowly becoming a mess like boxings. You got a Pride champ, a UFC champ, an unofficial champ, numerous orgs.
I disagree with that. If you want to see the highest level of competition right now, watch the UFC. The fact that Emelianenko is seen is the best fighter in the world is neither here nor there - youre never going to have have 'unified' champions in mma given the structure of the sport. In fact, its not slowly becoming a mess; its becoming less of mess; the UFC IS mma right now, and for all the negative ramifications of that (and there are a lot) its quite simple to follow for a newcomer. Now, given that the promoters (now !one! promotion) control basically every aspect of the sport, most of the fighters are sort of handtied - BUT you will get a couple of "stars" who transcend the sport (Couture & Emelianeko right now) and can choose greener pastures...who wouldn't? You expect them to accept unfavorable conditions to 'fight the best comp.' because it would please teenage keyboard warrior nerds like Iron Duke:nut ? Hell no they wont. BUT overrall, MMA is now more homogeneised than it has ever been :good