(Did Fedor make approximately 640,000 ice cream cones at Affliction? Oh, would that he had more than two hands.)
We all knew there was no way in hell that Fedor Emelianenko only pocketed $300,000 for throttling Tim Sylvia at Affliction: Banned, as was reported in the official payout figures from the CSAC. Word had it that he got “a sizable” amount of his money in the form of a signing bonus. Now FightLine.com says they have sources telling them that the figure was $1.3 million, bringing his total cheddar from the event to $1.6 million.
Sizable? Yeah, we’d say so. Especially since he owns the right to his fight footage in Europe, which is both a little weird and totally awesome. So this seems to be more in line with what we’d expect Fedor to be getting paid, right? After all, if Tim Sylvia got $800,000, and Fedor is at least twice as valuable, $1.6 mill is right on the button.
But if we’re to believe everything we read (and we do, even science fiction, which explains why we’re terrified of Asimov’s robots) Fedor was offered and declined a deal for more money with the UFC. Dave Meltzer wrote recently that Emelianenko was offered “a seven-figure signing bonus and a minimum of $1.5 million per fight.”
If that’s true — and we’ll point out that Meltzer is probably getting his info from the UFC on this one, who also once claimed that they totally weren’t offering Fedor waaaaaay more than Randy Couture, who as you’ll recall got pissed off enough to leave behind these failed negotiations — then something isn’t adding up here. Or else Fedor and his management team love their video rights and their freedom more than cash. Or else they’re dumb.
Loading ...
Post your comment
Showing 1-25 of comments
comments"Fedor’s a pusy coward, who lives off his nuthuggin fans, and the chance to beat up another can for 2 mil next time beats fighting the best, and being in UFC."
fedor's submitted a ufc hof'er twice, submitted a two-time hw champ in 36 secs, and beaten the current ufc hw title holder twice. add another former champ to the list in a couple months.
keep huggin dana's nuts, to speak in terms you understand. fedor is the real deal.
"Fedorâ??s a pussy coward, who lives off his nuthuggin fans, and the chance to beat up another can for 2 mil next time beats fighting the best, and being in UFC."
fedor's submitted a ufc hof'er twice, submitted a two-time hw champ in 36 secs, and beaten the current ufc hw title holder twice. add another former champ to the list in a couple months.
keep huggin dana's nuts, to speak in terms you understand. fedor is the real deal.
In regards to your other question. For Fedor, money isn't the only decision making point. Dana wanted exclusivity from fighting in other events, and Fedor loves him some Sambo. Why would he take the deal from UFC, when someone else would give him the same money and the right to fight when he pleases.
Come Guys, lets do our homework.
I hope that your vastly superior brain will not even acknowledge the stupid fukin nuthuggers who will blast you simply cause they cannot stop sucking of the Fedor cock.
Some of the stuff I knew about some I didn't but it just proves what I always felt about fedor, hes a big wimp, and his people are 3rd world morons.
I think you came close to the answer.......lets try : cause Fedor's a pussy coward, who lives off his nuthuggin fans, and the chance to beat up another can for 2 mil next time beats fighting the best, and being in UFC.
screw him, and his nuthuggin fans.
The video rights are just another demand in a long list of demands made by Fedor's manager. Vadim Finklestein also demanded that the UFC, Monte Cox, Bodog, or whoever he was dealing with co-promote with him in Russia under his M-1 banner. Additionally, he demanded that they also sign other Red Devil fighters under his management to lucrative fight contracts (regardless of whether or not they have Hepatitus) if they wanted the privelege of signing Fedor. Both Dana White and Monte Cox have attested to these, and while individually both of their words might be suspect, the fact that they tell the same story about Fedor's management seems pretty convincing. Monte Cox even named his organization after Finklestein's M-1 Mixfight, for fuck's sake.
Now we also see that video rights were amongst their demands. They may be others we haven't heard about, either (hand-picked fights have long been another rumor). So why are these video rights so important to Fedor? Well, they probably aren't. Like most of the demands, they aren't that important to Fedor, but to his manager Vadim Finklestein. Finklestein needs these video rights so that he can use them to promote his own organization, M-1.
Sure, Fedor demanded a few sambo matches. But the majority of the demands that killed the deal with the UFC, killed the deal with Monte Cox, and severed the deal with Bodog, were from Finklestein and served his own interests, not Fedor's.
Do you really think the UFC would agree to all of that other crap just so they could get a fighter who doesn't speak english, has little discernable personality, and has no concern for building up fights within their organization? Even the Japanese (who are constantly lauded for their solemn and quiet attention span during fights, as opposed to those raucus, ignorant Americans) thought Fedor was a bit too dull for their tastes. CroCop was always waaayyyyyy more marketable over there than Fedor.
And so it was Finklestein's demands that made it impossible for Fedor to fight for long stretches of time. This caused Fedor to lose his aura of invincibility, which was his lone marketablility. In looking out for his own interests, Finklestein has cost Fedor (and ultimately himself) millions of dollars. You can't tell me that these video rights will somehow pay Fedor more from a few showings on Russian television than if he had fought top competition three times a year for the past three years and become a UFC star with tons of sponsorships!
No... Fedor's management is self-serving, and above all, they are stupid.
If I remember correctly, the problem that Fedor had with UFC was that he wouldn't be able to compete in Sambo if he signed with them. That and all the other onerous aspects of UFC fighter contracts isn't attractive to a fighter who has Fedor's kind of leverage. Less money for more freedom, plus controlling the video rights in your home country sounds like a great deal to me.
Sign in
Register | Lost your password?
Register For This Site
A password will be e-mailed to you.
Log in | Lost your password?