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I keep hearing the narrative for years about how Fedor and M1 wanted too much from the UFC and the offer he received was a good one there's a lot wrong with that and I think people's bias for UFC plays a huge factor. First off M1 was the largest mma promotion in Russia that spawned many fighters over the years so they shouldn't just be dismissed as an annoyance along side UFC when it comes to negotiations, Fedor was arguably their greatest product ever and at the time was the number 1 in the world, it's crazy that Dana just though he could throw out a dollar figure and that would just be fine and dandy for M1 to just give up the greatest fighter who ever lived so UFC could just enrich themselves off of him and then when they're done just spit him out like they always did.
It's makes perfect sense for M1/Fedor to want to at least co-promote the events that he and his stable mates were featured in I think that is what any smart business man would do and find it ridiculous that people at the time and to this day think that it was crazy for them to ask to have some of their fighters signed and co-promotion after all UFC was looking to make as much as they can off of Fedor's name, M1 and Fedor's teammates should have benefitted as well in the negotiations and the co-promotions the way I remember it was just for certain events and not a long term thing where M1 owned part of UFC either way it made sense giving that the number 1 fighter in the world was in Russia at the time and was being represented by M1 the biggest promotion in Russia so why would M1 just allow that while not benefitting also Fedor's career would be under strict contract from Dana and UFC. It all came down to Dana wanted full control and all the benefits of having the number 1 fighter at the time while the other side got nothing except a few million dollars which they could have gotten elsewhere so I think the narrative is a crock of shit a and people are bias for the UFC also Fedor and his team made the right move not going there at the time.
It's makes perfect sense for M1/Fedor to want to at least co-promote the events that he and his stable mates were featured in I think that is what any smart business man would do and find it ridiculous that people at the time and to this day think that it was crazy for them to ask to have some of their fighters signed and co-promotion after all UFC was looking to make as much as they can off of Fedor's name, M1 and Fedor's teammates should have benefitted as well in the negotiations and the co-promotions the way I remember it was just for certain events and not a long term thing where M1 owned part of UFC either way it made sense giving that the number 1 fighter in the world was in Russia at the time and was being represented by M1 the biggest promotion in Russia so why would M1 just allow that while not benefitting also Fedor's career would be under strict contract from Dana and UFC. It all came down to Dana wanted full control and all the benefits of having the number 1 fighter at the time while the other side got nothing except a few million dollars which they could have gotten elsewhere so I think the narrative is a crock of shit a and people are bias for the UFC also Fedor and his team made the right move not going there at the time.
