http://steverattlesnake.cliquezone....ein-brock-lesnar-is-just-a-product-of-ufcs-pr Have you watched the fight Brock Lesnar and Cain Velasquez? If yes, what are your impressions? Vadim Finkelstein: I have long said that Lesnar is more of a product of UFCs PR rather than a serious fighter and that fight clearly confirmed it. And how do you assess Velasquez? In my opinion, he is a very good fighter and also in his abilities and strengths. UFC now presents him as the best in the world and it is certainly debatable, but he is a real fighter, not a product of PR. And what about the rumors that you are still negotiating with the UFC? Its stupidity. We are not conducting such negotiations. Now we are in active negotiations with Showtime on a contract extension, and perhaps we will renew it. But the UFC does not offer such opportunities and imposes its monopoly conditions. They believe that everyone should be in the UFC. We would love to fight with Lesnar, and Velasquez and all but why should we give up all these undertakings, all the years spent on Fedors development will go to them? Fedor did not grow in the UFC, right? So why should he go to the UFC? If Dana White wants to fight, he can easily hold it, because we do not mind. And while the contract with Showtime gives us more opportunities. Fedor is now ready to fight. He is 34, he feels fine and is ready to work. He is ready to sign a contract for five or six fights, and do the job very well. He always says hes ready to act. We need to protect our interests. Should we expect Fedor to fight in Japan on New Years Eve? We discussed this possibility with the Japanese themselves were happy, but they had more difficulty and with an interesting opponent for Fedor, and many others. As a result, the negotiations did not even happened because there was no concrete proposal. Therefore, in the very near future have to wait for the completion of negotiations with Showtime, and even then it will become clear when and with whom Fedor will fight next.
Vadim speaks the truth. Re Cain: "a very good fighter and also in his abilities and strengths.......he is a real fighter, not a product of PR". Re Brock: "Lesnar is more of a product of UFC’s PR rather than a serious fighter and that fight clearly confirmed it"
I appreciate how he just cuts directly to the point - its as simple as that really - everyone knew this - it was just time before it was shown.
SF knows about this, I dont think the show would compete with SF. From what I gather the talk of the town is that the show would be more like what M1 is doing now with its Selection events. Those that win or are good in the Selection will eventually find its way to the bigger Strikeforce events.
yeah, lesnar beat frank mir and couture because of being a hype job, and let us remember how carwin beat him, oh wait.
