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Official open letter from Fedor Emelianenko to UFC President Dana White
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| Official open letter from Fedor Emelianenko to UFC President Dana White
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| marke mark |
“Numerous times have I read mister White’s statements on Internet concerning myself. In my opinion, allowing yourself to say those things is not a sign of a gentleman or a grown man at all! If he candidly wants to prove himself right then let my fight with Randy happen or let me face the reigning UFC champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. In the future I wouldn’t want to hear those statements in my address ever again and I won’t tolerate that.
My last fight in Japan proved that I’m ready to fight anybody with any height advantage, skillset or experience. I have fought and still wish to fight the best athletes. The Randy fight is my goal number one right now, he’s a great fighter and this is a very unfortunate situation when too strict and one-sided UFC contracts don’t let this fight happen.
The whole world is eager to see me fight your champions, people don’t want to listen to your press-conferences. I’m signed with M-1 Global and this promotion is ready to organize such fights under our banner or in co-promoted events.” |
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| Inoki21 |
great. He'll beat the shit out of big nog for a third time.
i'll take what i can get. |
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| marke mark |
| I think he wants to fight Randy, but yeah, I'll take a Nog fight too. |
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| marke mark |
Quote: Originally posted by Inoki21
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| Inoki21 |
Obv. he wants the Randy fight, but it doesn't look like that's gonna happen.
UFC needs to sign Hunt and Barnett as well. |
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| marke mark |
Barnett was in the UFC, got canned for testing positive for roids.
Wiki- Barnett became the youngest UFC heavyweight champion after defeating Randy Couture in early 2002. Later that year, the title was stripped from Barnett after he tested positive for EQ aka Boldenone, an anabolic steroid. His fighting license was temporarily suspended by the Nevada Athletic Commission.
Hunt needs to be in the UFC. |
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| Inoki21 |
Quote: Originally posted by marke mark
Barnett was in the UFC, got canned for testing positive for roids.
Wiki- Barnett became the youngest UFC heavyweight champion after defeating Randy Couture in early 2002. Later that year, the title was stripped from Barnett after he tested positive for EQ aka Boldenone, an anabolic steroid. His fighting license was temporarily suspended by the Nevada Athletic Commission.
Hunt needs to be in the UFC. |
I know about the scandal. Who cares, though? They let Shrek back. Plus many others have abused roids and other drugs.
They have some other beef with him. It's prob his mouth. Josh is very outspoken. |
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| chiefX |
| Exactly, and why don't you Wiki Noguiera's opponent from last Saturday while you're at it. I mean, I'm anti-steroids, but I'm also pro-good fighters. Barnett back in the UFC would be excellent, but realistically I don't see it happening on account of the relations between Dana and him. |
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| tedeso |
| id like to see tim sylvia fight fedor that would be funny |
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| Inoki21 |
Quote: Originally posted by tedeso
id like to see tim sylvia fight fedor that would be funny |
i loathe sylvia more than almost any fighter out there. as a matter of fact i hate his whole camp minus robbie lawler.
i'd love to see fedor pound him and then rip his arm off. that would be cool. |
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| Jack the Hammer |
| Fedor's a fucking pussy or he'd of signed with the UFC where 95& % of all top level MMA talent is. He's just in it for the money and the things him and his management team wanted for his UFC contract were completely ridiculous. Sure he'd destroy Silvia if he goes to M1, but Brock definately deserved more money as for anyone who got that PPV that normally doesn't was more interested in Lesnar/Mir that his.M1 has no chance at a co-promotion with the UFC as that's just bad business for the UFC to hype up another small time shitty promotion, if Fedor was a man and wanted to fight the best guys he'd of came to the UFC a total bitch move on his part. Fedor was definately at one top the Top HW in MMA but the guy fights 1-2 times a year and of lately hasn't had anything remotely close to a top 10 HW. |
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| Inoki21 |
Quote: Originally posted by Jack the Hammer
Fedor's a fucking pussy or he'd of signed with the UFC where 95& % of all top level MMA talent is. He's just in it for the money and the things him and his management team wanted for his UFC contract were completely ridiculous. Sure he'd destroy Silvia if he goes to M1, but Brock definately deserved more money as for anyone who got that PPV that normally doesn't was more interested in Lesnar/Mir that his.M1 has no chance at a co-promotion with the UFC as that's just bad business for the UFC to hype up another small time shitty promotion, if Fedor was a man and wanted to fight the best guys he'd of came to the UFC a total bitch move on his part. Fedor was definately at one top the Top HW in MMA but the guy fights 1-2 times a year and of lately hasn't had anything remotely close to a top 10 HW. |
First of all, your post is all over the place, dude. Second Fedor has beat most of the top HW's out there. Nogueira twice, Cro-Cop, Hunt, Coleman twice Lindland and Herring. He has nothing to prove. He knows he's a draw and he using to his advantage. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
I don't see Arlovski, Werdum, Congo or Gonzanga giving him a fight. The only realistic fight is against Randy. He's worth it and deserves it. Dana should just give them w/e they want.
If we don't see the Randy/Fedor fight in UFC it's a travesty and I'll loathe Dane White even more than I do now. :o |
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| Jack the Hammer |
Quote: Originally posted by Inoki21
First of all, your post is all over the place, dude. Second Fedor has beat most of the top HW's out there. Nogueira twice, Cro-Cop, Hunt, Coleman twice Lindland and Herring. He has nothing to prove. He knows he's a draw and he using to his advantage. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
I don't see Arlovski, Werdum, Congo or Gonzanga giving him a fight. The only realistic fight is against Randy. He's worth it and deserves it. Dana should just give them w/e they want.
If we don't see the Randy/Fedor fight in UFC it's a travesty and I'll loathe Dane White even more than I do now. :o |
Lindland's not anywhere near a legit HW, Hunts a damn K1 kickboxer, Coleman's old as fuck, Herring shouldn't be fighting,Nog and CC are his only respectable wins. The UFC younger guys and some of the more established HW guys could definately make some interesting matchups for him and make it the division right up there with any other division in the UFC. I don't blame Dana one bit for the UFC not signing him and the fight not happening. Did you hear the demands Fedor and his camp were requesting, was fucking ridiculous thats the biggest thing that's been ignored. He definately was just trying to fuck them around in his meeting with them.Fedor in the UFC would be insane, definately mix the fuck up out of the HW division. |
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| ndhalogod |
Why are Fedor's demands ridiculous? I guess he should just take $250,000 and be happy while Zuffa continues to make $40-45 mil per show.
Except he's the best fighter in the world and should be able to name his price. It isn't greedy to expect just compensation for your services. |
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| Jack the Hammer |
Quote: Originally posted by ndhalogod
Why are Fedor's demands ridiculous? I guess he should just take $250,000 and be happy while Zuffa continues to make $40-45 mil per show.
Except he's the best fighter in the world and should be able to name his price. It isn't greedy to expect just compensation for your services. |
Money wasn't the main thing, I wish I could find the article but don't have the time this second to find it. But he wanted like other fighters from his camp to fight on his cards, a certain amount of fights in Russia, the ability to fight out of the UFC. There were quite a few more. They should have paid him whatever it took. Tough to say I'm sure theres alotta behind the scenes this too we don't ever hear about |
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| Inoki21 |
Quote: Originally posted by Jack the Hammer
Money wasn't the main thing, I wish I could find the article but don't have the time this second to find it. But he wanted like other fighters from his camp to fight on his cards, a certain amount of fights in Russia, the ability to fight out of the UFC. There were quite a few more. They should have paid him whatever it took. Tough to say I'm sure theres alotta behind the scenes this too we don't ever hear about |
You're right. He wanted Alexander and Roman Zentsov to have contracts as well.
Fuck it, man. Do what w/e he wants. :bl:
And you're also right about him being an asshole about it. Pussy just wasn't the right word. Pussy and Fedor don't belong in the same sentence.
And I have a feeling that you're a Miletech guy, so we have a minor beef there. My best friend trains with Serra. He just went pro a couple months ago. |
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| Inoki21 |
Quote: Originally posted by Jack the Hammer
Lindland's not anywhere near a legit HW, Hunts a damn K1 kickboxer, Coleman's old as fuck, Herring shouldn't be fighting,Nog and CC are his only respectable wins. The UFC younger guys and some of the more established HW guys could definately make some interesting matchups for him and make it the division right up there with any other division in the UFC. I don't blame Dana one bit for the UFC not signing him and the fight not happening. Did you hear the demands Fedor and his camp were requesting, was fucking ridiculous thats the biggest thing that's been ignored. He definately was just trying to fuck them around in his meeting with them.Fedor in the UFC would be insane, definately mix the fuck up out of the HW division. |
Come on dude. You know damn well Hunt puts on awesome fights and would be great in UFC. Barnett too.
I honestly don't see any of those guys giving him a good fight. His demands are crazy like I stated in the prior post, but we're talking about the Michael Jordan of MMA. He can kind of get away with it. :o
A stand up war with Kongo might be cool but he would take him down and expose him. The only decent fight would be against Gonzaga b/c he can roll and bang.
Big Nog should of lost to Herring and we all know what Fedor did to him. I don't see anyone touching Fedor. To be honest I think Randy would get his ass whooped too, but I still wanna see it. |
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| marke mark |
Quote: Originally posted by Jack the Hammer
Money wasn't the main thing, I wish I could find the article but don't have the time this second to find it. But he wanted like other fighters from his camp to fight on his cards, a certain amount of fights in Russia, the ability to fight out of the UFC. There were quite a few more. They should have paid him whatever it took. Tough to say I'm sure theres alotta behind the scenes this too we don't ever hear about |
What's wrong with any of this?
I'm glad there are other promotions popping up, competition is good and maybe it will make Dana get is head out of his ass and do what the fans want. Don't get me wrong, he made MMA what it is today, but with alot of top talent with one or two fights left on their contracts, and him being a hard head, we can look forward to some shit PPVS within a year.
Elite, Global M1, IFL and Strikeforce (to name a few) will have some pretty big names to snatch from the UFC. |
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| Inoki21 |
| Lotta good discussion in this thread. I'm gonna start an official MMA thread. We can just post everything in there. |
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| cdburgh |
Quote: Originally posted by marke mark
“Numerous times have I read mister White’s statements on Internet concerning myself. In my opinion, allowing yourself to say those things is not a sign of a gentleman or a grown man at all! If he candidly wants to prove himself right then let my fight with Randy happen or let me face the reigning UFC champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. In the future I wouldn’t want to hear those statements in my address ever again and I won’t tolerate that.
My last fight in Japan proved that I’m ready to fight anybody with any height advantage, skillset or experience. I have fought and still wish to fight the best athletes. The Randy fight is my goal number one right now, he’s a great fighter and this is a very unfortunate situation when too strict and one-sided UFC contracts don’t let this fight happen.
The whole world is eager to see me fight your champions, people don’t want to listen to your press-conferences. I’m signed with M-1 Global and this promotion is ready to organize such fights under our banner or in co-promoted events.” |
Was this posted somewhere confirming that it is legit? Usually there is a link somewhere, I didn't see one here. |
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