Thread: UFC Threatens Ban of TapouT For Fedor Emelianenko Sponsorship
View Single Post
Old 06-26-2010, 06:41 PM   #15
IC Champion
They/Them
 
IC Champion's Avatar
 
Posts: 15,331
IC Champion makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)IC Champion makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)IC Champion makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)IC Champion makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)IC Champion makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)IC Champion makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)IC Champion makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)IC Champion makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)IC Champion makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)IC Champion makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)IC Champion makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)IC Champion makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)IC Champion makes a lot of good posts (200,000+)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Narcissus View Post
This is such a ridiculous argument though. Why would Dana White try to make it easier for his competition to succeed? He's not being some evil son of a bitch, he's being a businessman (admittedly though, sometimes the two aren't far off from each other.)

What it probably comes down to is that Fedor wouldn't agree to terms with the UFC, even though Dana feels that he did everything necessary to get him there. Now Dana is being unreasonable in response. Childish? Yeah. Can he get away with it with little to no backlash? Yeah.
They couldn't come to terms, Dana needs to get over it. Fedor got a BETTER deal. Dana did everything he feels was necessary, yet we don't know what he offered him. To Dana White 500k a fight would be more than reasonable, but Fedor was unreasonable for taking a better deal if he could?

Dana White is bad for the sport of MMA. These kind of things are anti-competetive tactics, and can get him and the UFC into trouble.
IC Champion is offline