Fedor possibly signing with UFC this week
 

Apparently there will be an announcement either at the UFC press conference on Friday or Fedor's one before then where they could announce he is going to the UFC.

About fucking time.

if this comes true i will never doubt you again + <3 you :'(

Fuck


YEs

I am jerking off to this news rn

Ben Rothwell and Chase Gormley just got picked up by the UFC and are going to be on the 104 card

just read that. awesome news.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/spor...zing-deal.html
This is from the LA Times so hopefully its true

A long-awaited agreement between the Ultimate Fighting Championship and the man considered the world's best mixed martial arts fighter, Fedor Emelianenko, is expected to be announced by UFC President Dana White on Friday, a source with information about the negotiations told The Times today.

The source, who asked not to be identified because he's not authorized to speak publicly about the dealings, called negotiations between the UFC and Fedor "very civil" just days after Fedor's scheduled Affliction Trilogy fight Saturday against Josh Barnett was canceled.

Affliction wound up folding its MMA promotion activities and announced an apparel deal to sponsor UFC.

Now, Fedor, who has previously fought in organizations including PRIDE Fighting Championships in Japan, Bodog Fight and Affliction, is crossing over to the world's most successful MMA fighting organization, as well.

With a 30-1 record that includes victories over former UFC heavyweight champions Tim Sylvia, Andrei Arlovski and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Emelianenko would likely get an immediate shot at reigning UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar.

The source said officials were discussing details on the public announcement of the deal, which in the past has been complicated by Emelianenko's resistance to accept UFC's standard six-fight contract and his unwillingness to surrender some merchandising and marketing revenues.

But this month White said he was optimistic he could bring Emelianenko aboard, and his confidence was well-placed. The UFC declined to elaborate on Friday's scheduled announcement.

-- Lance Pugmire

He must have heard what the guys on the internets were saying about him

So, would Brock/Fedor be the biggest drawing UFC show ever?

the question is do you run Brock/Fedor right away or do you wait a couple fights and hope Brock is still champ? It's kind of a tough call because if you wait, what if Fedor somehow gets knocked out by "x" guy and there goes everything out the door. Or do you want to build him up for 1 or 2 fights so the fans who don't know him get to see him before Brock.

I think you do it right away

biggest fight in the history of the UFC.....

haha randy said that part of what brought him back to the UFC was the stipulation that he fight Fedor first should the UFC ever get him

Hmmmm,

What do you think the chances of Randy doing that fight are though.

That would be good business. And regardless, the winner could take on Brock, either way you have a high drawing re-match for Brock, or a super dream match.

You'd either have the guy who just beat Randy, or the guy who just beat Fedor, to take on the heavyweight champ, I see that as a win/win

Of course there's the issue that Randy isn't involved right now is he?

Now I'm a MMA novice, I don't think that they need to build up Fedor, I know who he is just by youtube, I know he's a name and one of the biggest threats to Brock's title's run. So I don't think that Fedor needs that much build up

If it goes Lesnar/fedor right away, Randy will leave

didn't know that about Randy. so yea, they'll have to go that route

I wish I could find the video where I saw him say that specifically

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...nenko.Octagon/

From Dana's point of view, I don't see a problem

Regardless, he's got 2 money matches right out of the block. And his champion would either be Randy,Brock or Fedor. This seems like a wonderful posisition to be in from a promoters point of view surely?

oh jesus christ, come on

http://mmajunkie.com/news/15663/repo...ays-source.mma

Who cared if Randy leaves...if he loses to Nog his career is done anyways, no sense in wasting a big fight on his diminished draw

Ha! found it! at about 4:40 Randy says it was a stipulation.

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Doesn't matter. Couture didn't respect his own contract enough the first time to honour it. Under no circumstances should they put Fedor in against anyone but the UFC Champion on his first fight. If he loses to Couture, that's money pissed down the drain. Couture needs to worry about Noguiera before anyone else first.

Ok so...

The winner of Courture/Nog takes on the winner of Lesnar/Fedor

Still win-win no?

not if nog and fedor win

http://sherdog.com/news/news/m-1-no-...romoting-18792

so basically he wants ufc to copromote with another company and he is headlining EA's new game.

Dana would be throwing away everything hes worked for if he signs fedor.

I totally agree. He can't be the best fighter in the world if he doesn't fight the top guys either.

II think for once im completely on danas side on this one

Considering how great the UFC is doing right now, they should tell Fedor to stick his 'conditions' up his Russian ass. It makes no sense for them to bend over and take it up the ass, (at this moment given their status in the Mixed Martial Arts world) for one fighter.

nah, fuck him and that bullshit. not worth it at all. Dana is probably falling over laughing at all this crap right now

Why would you want to be associated with TNA when you are an MMA guy anyway? It just feeds the mma purist hate machine and makes you look bad being associated with TNA.

lol I feel like this is pretty much Fedor's management.

It's very much his management. No one person would be this stupid.

Way to call this one Rob. Your inside info is so elite. You should make a run at Metzlers job.

I'll leave that to you.

I don't even care anymore. Screw the russians.