Heavyweights outside the UFC they should sign

[Trabaho]

They don't invest i LHW HW and that's why it's boring. Maybe also the 2 head figures being light guys they resonate more with 125ers ect. LHW HW in the UFC is relatively poor. And 125 135 145 is blown up. Lower weight also do it cheaper. They just sign the cheapest fat HWs.

 

[dipstickjimmy]

UFC signs past prime Bellator fighters (Pitbull, MVP, Chandler) but doesn't want to sign Nemkov and Usman who are in their absolute prime as of now and have been one of the very best fighters in the world for some time now.

Nemkov would run through that shallow HW division, just give him a chance.

They don't want to or he just resigned with PFL? Also he is on team Fedor so if there is same management that could be an issue.

 

[Alpha_T83]

Anatoly Malykhin

Nah. He's old, he just lost, and his piss would melt the jar.

 

[HHJ]

They don't want to or he just resigned with PFL? Also he is on team Fedor so if there is same management that could be an issue.

Nemkov said he was in talks with the UFC and the offer given was insulting.

 

[Killer Kadoogan]

they're not going to be able to sign the best HWs from other orgs, no sensible HW fighter worth it would accept the peanuts out of campbells mouth.

they need to just sign HW brazilian strikers and Dagestani striker/wrestler types that will accept the peanuts.

maybe even spruce it up to peanut butter.

but it seems like that is there strategy.

only the impoverished HWs who are willing to rough it out for nothing.

that is the future of the HW division.

ricco not signing is a bad bad sign.

 

[dipstickjimmy]

Nemkov said he was in talks with the UFC and the offer given was insulting.

So he has the same management as Fedor and they refused to co promote? LOL

Its an opportunity so why should they pay anyone well? LMAO

 

[Fight Professor]

They don't invest i LHW HW and that's why it's boring. Maybe also the 2 head figures being light guys they resonate more with 125ers ect. LHW HW in the UFC is relatively poor. And 125 135 145 is blown up. Lower weight also do it cheaper. They just sign the cheapest fat HWs.

Elite athletes of that size are expensive. It is way easier to create a p4p ranking system and the BMF belt to market manlets.

 

[HHJ]

So he has the same management as Fedor and they refused to co promote? LOL

Its an opportunity so why should they pay anyone well? LMAO

Fedor is not managed by M1 Global

Your livin 20 yrs in the past

"dipstick"

 

[dipstickjimmy]

Fedor is not managed by M1 Global

Your livin 20 yrs in the past

"dipstick"

Yeah it was a joke. Maybe lighten up a teeny bit.

 

[Feniamin]

Valentin Moldavsky

Vitaly Minakov

Hatef Moeil

Thomas Peterson

Alexander Soldatkin

Minakov is retired, news in Russian from November https://mma.metaratings.ru/news/minakov-obyavil-o-zavershenii-karery-v-mma-554485

 

[Tokoloko]

Dude was gettin paid probably 4 to 5 times that in Bellator. They basically are saying they dont want him.

Iam pretty sure that he had pretty much similiar options as Jiri. Only difference is that Němkov was "option B" for them.

edit: Jiri's fight purse in his debut vs Volkan was repportedly 150k...Iam pretty sure Němkov had similiar offer.

 

[Tokoloko]

Elite athletes of that size are expensive. It is way easier to create a p4p ranking system and the BMF belt to market manlets.

Well there are not "elite athletes" in HW atm. Its mostly bunch of LHW's which refuse to follow diet. As example ill give u Todev from OKTAGON which is 13-7. Dude could be absolute force in LHW, but he rather eat whatever he wants and mostly go W/L/W/L...

 

[Trabaho]

Elite athletes of that size are expensive. It is way easier to create a p4p ranking system and the BMF belt to market manlets.

That's what I'm saying without calling anyone a manlet. But the LHW HW who are good are a different kind of exciting. Now they budgeting though they got more money than ever. How many good LHW HW fights are there. Barely any. Left over scrapes and innactivity of the few attractions. 145 s a great division. But I do see a lot of random 125 135 who is that fighters who fight for basic payment. They're not building big stars at LHW HW. And yes they are expensive cause everyone wants them. Especially other orgs.

Edit 135 is the good division, the top 7. 145 is mediocre. Not bad either. Loez Volk waa bad match making.

 

[HHJ]

Iam pretty sure that he had pretty much similiar options as Jiri. Only difference is that Němkov was "option B" for them.

edit: Jiri's fight purse in his debut vs Volkan was repportedly 150k...Iam pretty sure Němkov had similiar offer.

Well this is what he had to say last year.


“There were negotiations with the UFC, but misunderstandings arose, plus the conditions were worse than PFL,” Nemkov said during an interview with Ushatayka (translated). “If I were 20-25 years old, I would probably go to the UFC, but they made it clear to me that they are not particularly interested in fighters from Russia.I have a new two-year contract. When my contract ends, I’ll be 35 and I can still try crazy things,” Nemkov said. “If I manage to win here against everyone [in PFL] and everything, then I think in two years, there will be a different attitude toward me.”

 

[TheStruggler]

Cro Cop is up there too. People were saying it was a done deal for him to be champ when he came over and never got close.

crocop is the most overrated fighter ever probably. Dude has done nothing but everyone acts like he is some is multiple champ. Far from it.

 

[HHJ]

crocop is the most overrated fighter ever probably. Dude has done nothing but everyone acts like he is some is multiple champ. Far from it.

You tryna get that last yellow

 

[TheStruggler]

You tryna get that last yellow

They give me a double yellow for saying a word that isn't racists at all. The word I said is a literal tranlsation to 'sun god' but since it sounds close to the word that black people use all the time in rap lyrics, then it must be racists. I guess the mods gonna double yellow or ban mexican people for saying the word black in spanish too.

 

[Poirierfan]

Behold, the next HW goat who's been grinding UFC for over a decade now.

 

[Thesnake101]

Valentin Moldavsky

Vitaly Minakov

Hatef Moeil

Thomas Peterson

Alexander Soldatkin

Dude where have you been? Thomas Petersen got signed off contender series ages ago and he's currently 2-3 in the UFC, getting killed in two of those losses by Petrino and Gaziev.

Moldavsky is the last guy they'd ever pick up due to how boring and middling he is, and Soldatkin might not even be on their radar since his DQ loss in contender series where he was getting outwrestled by a shitty fighter.

Minakov is old as dirt, not dedicated to fighting and most likely retired.

 

[LindyBrah]

Dude where have you been? Thomas Petersen got signed off contender series ages ago and he's currently 2-3 in the UFC, getting killed in two of those losses by Petrino and Gaziev.

Moldavsky is the last guy they'd ever pick up due to how boring and middling he is, and Soldatkin might not even be on their radar since his DQ loss in contender series where he was getting outwrestled by a shitty fighter.

Minakov is old as dirt, not dedicated to fighting and most likely retired.

Now I have to watch Dana Pinks Thursday Night Exhibition Regional Contender Series to understand what’s going on