Zuffa CEO Lorenzo Fertitta steps in to help negotiate Emelianenko vs. Henderson

Well who else would you have either man face?

 

The article states that negotiations did come to a standstill.. What do you want?

I think you got it wrong, he will do more help than hurt.

 

Fedor negotiations proving difficult...I find that hard to believe

 

Ya, Henderson definitely doesn't have that kind of history

 

Hope they make this happen. I would really like to see this fight.

 

You are absolutely spot on for once, even though Im sure that was intended as sarcasm. Hendo honoured his last contract, couldnt reach terms on renegotiation and left the UFC. M1 signed a contract with SF making Fedor the highest earner in the promotion (which he has earned btw) but seem intent on renegotiating terms and stalling every time Scott Coker wants to get his $ worth.

See the difference?

 

You talking jive Stoo, Fedor has never knowingly disohnored a contract. And how long did Henderson sit out for before he finally signed with SF?

 

I never meant to imply Fedor would dishonour a contract or slate him as a fighter. I just am not the biggest fan of the way M1 goes about it's business trying to milk every last penny out of their best assets when he's on a decent contract for what I understand about it already. Being a fan, I just want to see him fight, but there's always something, and though it's not clear this delay is M1's doing, past history suggests it is

 

He fought in July at UFC 100...had a match against Rich Franklin cancelled in September...talks broke down with the UFC in October...signed with Strikeforce in December. Hardly seems an unreasonable sequence of events.

 

I don't like M1 management either. The didn't even develop Fedor, and I don't think they have done an adequate job of developing other talent in EE so far.

But look at SF pre and post Fedor, he put them on the face of the map, and SF has other good/decent fighters partially as a result of this.

 

Henderson was in line for a title shot at the time no?

 

No. He was promised one if he beat Bisping but then Silva refused to fight him unless he first defeated Nate Marquardt. They were still trying to force the issue when Silva scheduled surgery to deal with a nagging elbow injury to take him out of action until Spring 2010.

 

Fedor helped grow their brand but you're massively overstating his impact. They were doing really good business with Frank Shamrock back in 2006 and had already made the key purchase of EliteXC assessts (including Gina Carano and the women's division, the Showtime contract, Cesar Gracie's fighters, Big Foot, etc).

Fedor probably got them onto CBS though. But then again the huge contract they signed him to probably contributed to their decision to sell the company. They'd probably have been better off spending the money on Kimbo Slice to be honest.

 

Kimbo, really? :blood Fedor did not ruin SF, they were bought out by Zuffa because they were succesful, because they had good fighters, (especially at HW) and because they had Fedor.