Report: UFC offers Fedor 30 million dollar contract
According to Carmichael Dave at KTHK 1140am in Sacramento, the UFC offered Fedor Emelianenko and M-1 global a pretty enormous offer:
- The UFC offered Fedor a 6 fight, 30 million dollar contract.
- An immediate title shot
- The UFC offered M-1 Global a cut of the PPV on top of Fedor’s purse
- Fedor was free to wear as many M-1 logoed items as he wished.
- The UFC also relented on allowing Fedor to compete in combat sambo
If this is indeed true, it would be the biggest contract in MMA history. However, it appears that M-1 and Fedor refuse to sign any contract with the UFC that doesn’t involve co-promotion with M-1. There are some reports that a deal between Fedor and the UFC is now all but dead.
You have to applaud Dana White and the UFC for the offer. They gave into many of the Emelianenko camp’s demands, and made the best offer they possibly could. I don’t see the UFC giving any more concessions or upping the offer any more. This seems like a “take it or leave it” offer to me. We’ll see if Fedor is serious about fighting the best fighters in the world, or if he’ll let Vadim Finkelstein and the rest of the goofs over at M-1 global continue to control him and prevent him from the super fights that everyone wants to see. I realize that Emelianenko has a stake in M-1 and that he stands to profit quite a bit if co-promotion was possible, but what motivation would the UFC have in offering that?
The UFC made the best offer possible. Fedor’s only alternatives are Strikeforce, who will not be able to pay him what the UFC can, or going back to Japan to fight lesser competition. If Fedor can be content fighting nothing but cans the rest of his career, then perhaps we should all stop calling him the greatest heavyweight in the world.
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