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2010-06-25 13:29 |
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Fedor says if the 30 Million offer rumor was true, he would have taken it .. but says that it is just internet rumors, and the UFC proposal was nothing special.
This was from the conference call earlier this afternoon -
"The advantage in signing the deal with Strikeforce is really great."
"The UFC did not give us any chance to develop. The UFC wants me to be the fighter of the UFC. They do not offer us anything else. Dana White stated that M-1 rejected a huge amount of money and decided to fight for cheap money. That's not the truth. Nothing special was offered to M-1. And when we made a deal with Strikeforce and when we united with Strikeforce, we got the opportunity to broadcast all fights on the first channel in Russia, in the leading channel in Korea and in Japan, and in many other countries. But UFC won't give us these opportunities. If Strikeforce was able to offer a better deal than the UFC, why should we go to the UFC? I'm happy we have found a great partner. I'm very happy to fight again. I don't know the name of the opponent yet. I know for sure that the fight will take place in fall. I will be happy to meet any opponent, which will be offered by the organizers."
"I would like to say that I have full control of all the contracts and my career as well. I get all financial reports. All important issues are being discussed with me. Everything I don't like, Vadim tries to send for. I need to tell you I have complete control of what's going on."
"From my viewpoint, the UFC does not have the proper attitude towards fighters. They do not consider fighters normal people – human beings. I think the attitude for UFC fighters is not the correct one. The offer seems to be one kind and on the Internet, they published different numbers. The offer we got from them was neither of those. I don't pay attention to different discussions. There are a lot of people who take the side of the UFC. A lot of people take side of M-1 as well. I think that if the numbers which are published on the Internet were real numbers, we would have signed the contract with the UFC."
Det roliga är att det enda Dana har att säga om saken nuförtiden är att han "travelled to all corners of the world and didn't spend time with my kids because I was on the phone to make the deal". Vem fan bryr sig om vart han åkte och hur många telefonsamtal han hade? Det är ju hans jobb.
Att han påstår att han gav Fedor mer än någon annan fighter, kanske, men fightpursen är inte det enda man tjänar pengar på - antagligen tjänar Fedor mycket bättre på att få strömma innehållet till alla asiatiska länder t.ex. får procent på ppv:n osv.
Kolla bara hur Dana svarar på frågor som om en co-event med Strikeforce - att Strikeforce är "smalltime". Men va fan, och? Poängen är ju för i helvete att Fedor är där, de kan göra en fight där båda tjänar pengar och fansen får se vad de vill. Löjligt.
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