I don't buy "UFC don't treat fighters as people" I also don't think he was afraid of UFC fighters
Wasn't Dana saying that Fedor's manager was wanting a percentage of the UFC or something like that
Wasn't Dana saying that Fedor's manager was wanting a percentage of the UFC or something like that
No they wanted to co-promote cards with Fedor in them. Basically on the posters and in the ring/intro it would say M1 Global/UFC instead of just UFC.
Vadim. There is no other answer.
M-1 wanted to co-promote UFC events, wanted UFC to run shows in the middle of nowhere in Russia, wanted UFC to sign a bunch of Fedor's teammates and wanted UFC to build training facilities all over Russia.
In business this is called negotiating in bad faith. Vadim didn't actually want a deal to be done so by asking for the moon, the UFC brass would have to say no and then they look like they're turning down an offer.
Whether Dana really offered Fedor an amount of money that was way out of whack with what Fedor was actually worth may or may not have happened but it's really irrelevant. Dana could have offered $20 million per fight and Vadim would have still said no.
The sad thing is that fanboys and 16 year old businessmen on internet forums can't recognize what happened in this negotiation.
One of the biggest shames in the post-PRIDE era of MMA if not the absolute biggest is that someone who could have been the signature fighter of the era had a management team led by numbskulls so he never reached a mainstream audience.
Vadim. There is no other answer.
M-1 wanted to co-promote UFC events, wanted UFC to run shows in the middle of nowhere in Russia, wanted UFC to sign a bunch of Fedor's teammates and wanted UFC to build training facilities all over Russia.
In business this is called negotiating in bad faith. Vadim didn't actually want a deal to be done so by asking for the moon, the UFC brass would have to say no and then they look like they're turning down an offer.
Whether Dana really offered Fedor an amount of money that was way out of whack with what Fedor was actually worth may or may not have happened but it's really irrelevant. Dana could have offered $20 million per fight and Vadim would have still said no.
The sad thing is that fanboys and 16 year old businessmen on internet forums can't recognize what happened in this negotiation.
One of the biggest shames in the post-PRIDE era of MMA if not the absolute biggest is that someone who could have been the signature fighter of the era had a management team led by numbskulls so he never reached a mainstream audience.