Hahaha I love all the people that try and defend Fedor and his increasingly more embarrassing list of opponents. Every time I read allowed his last three opponents including or not including Barnett I am forced into uncontrollable laughter.

After Barnett is finished, Fedor just needs to wait until Ken Shamrocks suspension is over so he can show his #1p4p skills by defeating another former UFC Champion. I mean if you beat a former UFC champ it means you're the best in the world right?

Can the idiot nutthuggers at least call him the best heavyweight not the best p4p, Its really disrespectfull when there are at least 5 fighters who if they weighed the same as Fedor would beat him. GSP, A Silva, Machida, Penn, and fucking Rampage would knock that motherfucker out! Mir or Lesnar would probably take him too.




ITS FUCKING NOT EVEN DEBATABLE. HE IS NOT P4P KING.

lol dubba,

its kind of funny how being kod by a LHW makes you inadequate..like mir huh? wow didnt think of that? brock beat herring..out of his prime, fedor beat herring in it prime when he could be juiced up on steroids. randy couture LHW so how does that make lesnar cool? UFC offered more money than any other organization? dude you dont think fedor has more sponsors than the UFC can make up for straight pay? GTFO lol you make yourself look like an intelligent business man until everyone realizes that you dont know any of the numbers involved. nice jump on the lesnar humptrain, he beats 3 folks and one of those was a rematch..vera beat mir in 1 round..took brock 2 and he had dominate position the entire time. when he didnt have dominate position he got his bell rung..by frank fricken mir.

dana is all like AA and tim knocked each other out all the time..when did AA knock sylvia out? wasnt it an achilles lock? wasnt it only once? oh and "anything tom says never comes true"..like chuck being the best LHW in the world..but the second he goes to japan he gets his assbeat mercilessly. UFC stays in the UFC for that reason. anderson silva was in pride and lost there comes to the ufc and hands it to everyone.

franklin can beat everyone at MW except anderson silva...he goes to japan and machida ko's him.

dana white is a promoter and a good one, because no matter how much he lies or shit doesnt come true..you still believe him. i got more, i might as well ramble on

rampage beats chuck, omg rampage is the best ever he beats dan henderson... forest beats him..after getting his head dribbled off the mat 6 million times by jardine..forrest is the best..but he doesnt need to avenge his loss against jardine.

the spiders most challenging fight was against hendo. hendo beats some folks, kayo's the dogshit outta bisping..hendo just wants a rematch, but he has to go against franklin again? what the fuck for? is franklin gonna go after silva for a 3rd time?

i never said anything about gsp because his weight class is shot..he is an awesome champ but he's looking like franklin before silva to me.

mma is turning into a predictable mess, they wont put the champs up against good opponents until they are done with their marketability. history shows this to be true. UFC isnt the best talent , it just has more eyes to look at its signage saying that they are.

Dana cotradicts himself on a regular basis when it comes to Fedor. Bottom line you can't believe half the shit that comes out of his mouth because he is always in PR mode.

C'mon Dana.
If Fedor is really a nobody and can't beat your guy, why not sign him to a one fight deal?

Shady business practices?
I wouldn't have thought that of you had you not accused everyone but yourself of doing just that.

Just swallow your pride and sign Fedor. Let the fighters decide, in the cage, who is better.

Or are you scared Fedor will beat your vastly experienced guy(Brock) then leave your "elite" organization?

And, yeah, Fedor has beaten all your guys. How many has Brock beaten?

A job where your boss berates you? Doesn't Fedor want to be like the rest of us?

@ JPFighter, thanks! But in order for people to stop asking about Fedor, these interviewers are just gonna hafta hop on the Mercer hype train!

@Dubbayoo

All the points you have listed are all the more reason for Dana White to simply stop answering questions about Fedor. The UFC does not need Fedor.

@ KarmaAteMyCat:
Thanks, man! I figure if I'm gonna ramble, it may as well have a chuckle in it! Plus it distracts from any grammatical/factual errors I make along the way...

@ Mr. W/o Remorse:
Well said.. But in the case of Kimbo, he was actually ko'ed by a LIGHT Heavyweight! :P

I don't see how/why Fedor can continue w/o the UFC. I think it's comes down to Pride, ultimately. Whoa, two puns for the price of one! The UFC is the #1 MMA League, and Fedor may, or may not, be the #1 MMA fighter. The Wamma belt is just a piece of jewelry so that Fedor can feel pretty when he walks in and out of the ring. Cuz in reality, if the Wamma belt is supposed to be cross-promotional, but the #1 MMA League in the world has nothing to do with it, and the Wamma belt has no affiliation w/ any leauge's division of HW fighters who are competing for that belt... then I have one question... WHAT'S FEDOR THE CHAMP OF? If anything, the Fedor Nuthugger Fan Club.

The UFC doesn't need Fedor. UFC 100's profits, buzz, conventions, etc is more than enough proof that they are #1 w/ or w/o him. But he needs them to prove if he is STILL #1.

THE #1 FIGHTER IN THE WORLD IN HIS WEIGHT CLASS CANNOT BE A JOURNEYMAN! Can't be on top of the food chain w/ no food chain..

So great pay, great exposure, the best place to prove his mettle.. is it REALLY Dana White's words that's keeping him from coming over?

Shit, even TITO is finally realizing that it's best to be in the good graces of the UFC..

[fin]

Interestingly enough I think that this is exactly what DW needs to be doing to make it happen. Lets face just about every fighter out there is an ego-maniac (its basically a prerequisite for individual sports - extreme self belief). Call it what you will, the most important thing to any of these fighters is how the are perceived by the public. Calling Fedor out is exactly how you get him in the UFC. Believe me he's up to date on this stuff DW is saying. For the record DW was refuting what the interviewer was saying. Everyone has to keep in mind that Heavyweight is a different style of fighting... you get hit with one full weighted solid kick/punch to the head (by anyone that is a heavyweight) and you're night is over, just ask Kimbo. So for Fedor to have 30 some fights and not have lost really is a good case for p4p in my opinion, but fighting and winning against Brock would cement that, probably in a lot of peoples eyes. Trust me pple this fight will happen... it's too much of a win win for the UFC. Fedor win's P4P and heavyweight champ titles. Brock wins...all the nutthugging WWE fans will be vindicated.

So in summation... there's only two fights that we all want to see from here on out.... Sliva v. GSP and Fedor v. Brock.... nothing else matters.

I think DW's best strategy for dealing with Fedor is to just stop talking about him. When somebody asks DW about Fedor, he should just tell the interviewer that Fedor won't accept the UFC's terms, and move on. Perhaps Fedor and his camp enjoy all the drama, because it helps keep Fedor relevant in the MMA world. Quite frankly, I am growing sick of hearing about Fedor, and I'm sure that many MMA fans are feeling the same. I'm more interested in watching hungry fighters that are eager to compete (Carwin, Cain, Lesnar, Lashley, Mir, etc), not prima donna fighters that want stadiums built in their name.

That DW interview left me in shock, has that idiot got retardation?
Where on the net has fedor said he was the best?
Why is it Fedor managed to fight for every other Organisation but UFC?Everyone else managed to sign him.
Has Dana White forgotten about Fedor beating cro cop in his prime?
Do you think with the russian Government (one of Fedors Fans is the russian ex-pres not the fcking mafia) being behind him, and Fedor competeing in all the Sambo(champion) and even carrying the Olympic torch through Russia he would give a shit about DW and what he has to offer?
Fedor doesnt need to talk, he just wins, and hasnt lost, at the moment he is the best hands dwn fighter and will be until losing says otherwise.
A Fedor and Brock Fight would obviously be fcking crazy, but all this speculation is just shit tlk until a fight happens and DW gets out his check book.
Until then Fedor would arm bar ur mum if he could ahahaha

I straight up just died laughing @ Dubbayoo Best post ever.

FEDOR WILL KILL LESNAR!!!!

I completely Agree with Dana, it's time to get off Fedors nutts and sincerely look at what he's done within the last few years. You can't live in the past I mean Honestly fedor is skilled he might even be one of the truly good heavyweights in the world, but seriously best Lb for Lb? Who the fuck can honestly say that.. I mean This is ridiculous it baffles me how so many of you lack the enough ability to step back and use the facts to form Logical thoughts. the guys good but he isn't god he even said it in an Interview "I dont care about my legacy" of course you dont you cant take a hit on the money your making to prove you really love this sport. I mean honestly if you all keep hugging this guys Nutts there gonna turn blue and fall off get over it.. GSP where I may not be a HUGE fan and I might even Dislike him a bit is the best Lb for Lb.. fucking ridiculous guys stop hating fucking idiots.

If you truly believe Fedor is afraid of Lesnar, you might not have noticed the bored look in his eyes as he ran through EVERYONE in Pride...
He also lives to fight larger opponents...
And ever stop to think that the Russian Mafia might be a less hostile work environment than the UFC?

At this point the UFC needs Fedor more than Fedor needs UFC...
It all boils down to that.

I'm convinced you get your news stories as soon as mma.tv posts something. C'mon Ben, you're better than that.

Did anyone catch the part where Dana says he thinks Fedor's one of the best HW in the world? It's near the end of the clip. Everything else he says is simply in disagreement with this jerkoff of an interviewer, who actually says he believes that Ray Mercer would "expose" strikers in the UFC. (LMAO!)

Dana is just saying that he doesn't believe you can call Fedor the best p4p in the world anymore. I'd have to agree... Sure he's great, but his recent opponents have been jokeworthy - all UFC rejects. You're only as good as your last fight in the p4p rankings, folks.

At one time Fedor was the p4p king, no question. But that time was several years ago, back in Pride. I'd love to see him come to the UFC, but that's up to Fedor and no one else. The offer is clearly on the table.

That said, if you knew you'd eventually be expected to fight Brock Lesnar, after the absolute beating he put on Mir, would you sign that deal? Fuck no, you would not. And it appears that neither will Fedor.

Fedor sucks! he always has, he fights cans, and that's all he wants to fight. all his fans are delusional nuthuggers who spam the hub with stupidity.
Dana White simply backs up everything I ever thought about Fedor.
All this is old news, Fedor will die a nobody and will have never stepped up, he is like tito, he isn't news stop posting shit about Fedor Ben's , it is a waste of time.

I'd like to see Fedor and Brock tag team vs Brutus Beefcake and Greg "The Hammer" Valentine..

and if there's time, Tank Abbott vs George "The Animal" Steele...

yeah, but if lesnar could back in time and fight mark hunt in his prime...

you go fedor. don't join the UFC until you can name your price.

lesnar's record isn't exactly filled with a wealth of a-list competitors. after he smokes carwin or cain who's left? let's face it, the HW division is weak. even if all the sanctioning bodies were combined it would still be weak.

lesnar/ fedor is the only fight that matters in the HW class and until white gets it done he's a cut-rate version of don king.

pretty much anything anyone says on this subject has so many holes in it. for example i just looked up and saw someone say crocop was an easy win for fedor because gonzaga beat him....hahah so stupid. no relevance whatsoever. p4p best fighter will never be settled all opinion. its a good conversation peice for face to face convo so you can be rational, but on the internet its pretty much the most annoying subject to try and read

Looks like CP has some bitter readers!

Fedor's trying to play hard ball thru the media. He was talking out of his ass in the interview w/ Bas. He says he doesn't enjoy watching any particular fighter. Oh wait, he almost forgot, he likes Josh Barnett's fights. Which was convenient to say on the spot, since he's been watching tape on Barnett lately. Who WOULDN'T be blown away by watching Barnett after being perched on top of Yvel with almost 3 full rounds of ineffective GNP?? Unless Yvel tapped out of boredom...

Fedor could've glossed over the question. How many times have you heard someone say that they're not thinking past the next fight? He obviously is, because probably wants to continue to have income. People are talking a lot of shit on Dana, I bet you Fedor's got a pretty sweet paycheck waiting for him if he goes to the UFC. Can Strikeforce give him a better offer? We know Affliction can't (anymore). Maybe Dream's got a really good offer for Fedor. Just in time for a New Year's Eve freak beating.

Watch the interview, u can see the wheels turning.. James Thompson doesn't fight in the UFC, but that would be too obviously of a lie. Fedor is smarter than to acknowledge that there is quality competition @ the UFC. Oh wait, no he isn't. Because 2 days after UFC 100, Fedor is saying Lesnar's legit, and he likes that matchup. Whoops. Maybe he stumbled on it next day on YouTube while looking for some non-UFC fight video... Maybe he's into regional MMA. Maybe he saw Bruno?

So the #1 MMA company in the world (by FAR, game over at this point, sorry Affliction)...
..is ready to throw down more money than any other company could afford (without going bankrupt after it's fourth semi-annual show)...
...has the deepest HW division in MMA (aka, deep enough that it won't run dry before his contract expires)...
...says that they are ready for Fedor as soon as Fedor is ready, and his response is that the terms are just not acceptable..
...so Dana points out that beating guys who used to be champs doesn't mean you're the best guy around, nor does beating freak shows who aren't actually good fighters.

Dana's right guys.. It's ridiculous. Fedor beat former UFC HW Champ Tim Sylvia in 36. And in Sylvia's next fight he gets KO'ed in NINE seconds. By a guy who's not an MMA fighter. A fighter who lost to Kimbo Slice. So do victories like that prove that Fedor's the #1 guy TODAY? With that logic, Lesnar should be stripped of the title and Fedor should fight Kimbo @ TUF 10 Finale for the vacant P4P... on Spike!!! If that happened, it would be HUGE! And prove jack shit. And what if Kimbo won?

I am not proofreading this. After Affliction goes under, Fedor better hope his Sambo league gets a reality show...

ArmFarmer is a fucking genius.

Before ANYONE post ANYTHING about Fedor being pound for pound, they need to read his posts.....repeatedly!!!!

u02jfc9.......
Sure the standup looks different... but I would say mainly because they have other threats to consider. When two strikers are evenly matched... it's hard to tell how good they are (within reason). But take Franklin whose bread and butter is striking... he normally looks great striking until he fought Silva... Silva MADE him look bad because Silva was that much better. But the truth is... even Silva had 2 pro boxing matches... 1 win 1 loss... both fights against nobodies. I'm not comparing the two sports because they can't be compared... but as far as striking goes... the MMA fighters are not at par with a top ten boxer.

Fedor loses to Lesnar via violent face smash.

Mercer . . . I admit sometimes the standup doesn't look like a boxing stand up but fighters like Stephen Bonnar a golden golves boxer from Chicago, Marcus Davis a pro boxer, and etc

Fedor doesn't cut weight and is more than likely the smaller fighter in all his fights, sans Lindland, but even then not that extreme a weight difference. So by being the smaller fighter in the majority of his fights beating larger opponents makes him the best pound for pound. Georges and Anderson both cut vast ammounts of weight for their respective divisions. So Fedor is better than them...Fedor is more of an armfarmer than you armfarmer.

Fedor doesn't consider himself the best in the world, Dana, you douche bag. Never once has he made a statement about being the best nor has he ever come close. What a fucking jackass

If I were Fedor, I'd deliberately not sign with Zuffa/UFC just so I could watch DW keep throwing tantrums when he can't get what he wants or his own way.

I can just picture DW stamping his feet, pissing and moaning while tears well up in his eyes. Shit talking about Fedor is not such a good idea. It's certainly not going to make Fedor sign

I'm pretty sure Fedor could afford a plane ticket and take a vacation in Vegas. I think if DW bumped into Fedor in a dark alley or nghtclub, he'd piss himself on the spot.

Anderson: Cause of Rich Franklins facial reconstructive surgery, and beat him down twice without breaking a sweat, Choked out Henderson in round 2, submitted bjj world champion from his back with a triangle choke, crushed leben and irving, destroyed Cote's knee with the power of his mind, and got bored and toyed with a pretty good fighter for 5 rounds.

GSP: Has fought nothing but the best of the best in one of the most stacked divisions in ufc outclassing every fighter he's ever fought in every single aspect of the game(yes he lost two fights, yet the previous sentence remains entirely true)

Penn: Destroyed Sean Sherk as well as almost every other fighter he's fought that wasn't a ww. Also dominated the greatest ww champ of the time for 2 rounds before getting injured, and beat gsp up in the first fight.

Brock: Crushed Couture on the feet and Mir on the ground. Nobody cares about Heath Herring.

My votes for GSP p4p best in the world, 2nd Anderson Silva, 3rd Fedor

yawn

Fedor's opponents..

Arlovski - Ko'd in a fraction of the time it took Fedor by Rogers, Ko'd by Tim Sylvia, decisioned by Tim Sylvia

Tim Sylvia - Dominated by 220lb Couture, Destroyed by a washed up boxer in a fraction of the time it took Fedor, Knocked silly then submitted by Arlovski

Hong Man Choi - is Hong Man Choi

Lindland - Middleweight that just showed us what Ken Shamrock meant by "beaten into a living death" against Belfort

Hunt - Almost ko'd Fedor, and is on a 5 fight losing streak with a 5-6 record

Coleman - Fights at lhw and hasn't been overly impressive in a while

Cro Cop - Folded in half by Gonzaga, has extremely vulnerable testicles

Nog - Finished by Mir, would have been finished by Heath Herring if Herring didn't have the intelligence of a brick

Dana is very passionate and he's right Fedor isn't good anymore.

I think Brock would beat Fedor on pure size, but Fedor is far from the P4P best fighter because he doesn't fight anyone with any credibility nowadays.

Last 7 fights in 4 years against bad fighters.

HAHA... Mercer WOULD expose the heavyweights for crappy striking. Can't grapple... but the boy can HIT... DAMN!

Dana White is SUCH a douchebag. It's a race between Dana and Brock for Douchebag of the century.
Fedor would KILL Brock.

now its the russian mafias fault?? DWs bullshit never ceases to amaze me, I wonder if he believes his own bullshit or conciously know he's lying? quit trying to brainwash the allready retarded all the real MMA fans know half the shit he says is blatant bullshit.

never thought i would say it... but AMEN hal

Fedor is like itchiban soup...it might be numba wan but there's no substance to it. Fedor looked terrible against Arlovski and looks bored as shit lately. Fedor will lose a fight very soon. Barnett, maybe or maybe not. Either way, it's gonna happen and it might as well be 2012...everyone will be batshit crazy about it.

that video was fucking hilarious. dana white is mad because he cant win. he always so confident right before he sounds retarded. the hw division in ufc is nothing. to all you cock chestnar ball buckets...if you say his name, it means that the entire time the divison was nothing until he came in...which would make all your other arguments about why he never came before...a crock of shit

Dana White is so damn retarded. Fedor would kill his heavyweights like a Lion to a Lamb.

If Anderson had done the same thing, fought the same guys but not for the UFC, he would say "He's a fuckin bum, he fought nobody!"

He says Fedor has fought no one, but Anderson Silva who has wins over losers like James Irvin is better? Dana is such a fucking moron.

Clearly Fedor is afaid of faceing kimbo slice after he dominates TUF. I hear he's considering cutting to 205 to fight machida for the belt. That would be a much easier fight for him.

I found the exclusive video of Dana negotiating with Fedor's manager:

www.mmascraps.com/2009/07/funniest-mma-video-this-year.html

Does Dana mention how Every. Single. UFC Former HW Champ. Sucks?

Because obviously they do, every last one of them. How else could have Fedor beaten all of them, including Nogeria twice? I mean, wow, Nogeria must be one of the worst HWs of all time to have been beaten by Fedor, twice, right? Might as well mention Crop-Cop too, in 2005 when Fedor beat him, badly, Cro-Cop was obviously regarded as the worst MMA fighter ever.

Right?

to me it looks like swedish has tasted fedor's pee pee

Fedor is a bitch who doesn't have the balls to compete with the best.

DW is right on EVERY SINGLE POINT.

WOW, Dana White is a moronic douchebag?!?!?!? Who knew?!!?

what does that have to do with anything?

ufc 103 --- main event -- Dan Henderson vs. Rich Franklin....GO FIGURE

Dana...are you fuckin stupid....GSP dont have a shit load of Canadian sponsors because they have to pay your ass $100,000 first....

wow. DW baffles me at times. They could market Fedor so well in the UFC, yet he is sleeping on that MONEY!

Whatev. Dude is an idiot sometime.