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[NateHoGG]

Why is he turning down 30 million 6 fight contract? I dont get why he has no desire to fight in the UFC, he must have a really good reason to not want to fight guys like Lesnar and Carwin. He wont have any good fights outside of Rogers and AO

[joeyP]

he has one reason, and it is very simple. The UFC won't co-promote with M-1 Global, and M-1 won't make a deal without co-promotion involved

[Malice]

Originally Posted by NateHoGG

Why is he turning down 30 million 6 fight contract? I dont get why he has no desire to fight in the UFC, he must have a really good reason to not want to fight guys like Lesnar and Carwin. He wont have any good fights outside of Rogers and AO

Do you have any verifiable proof he was offered that much?

[NateHoGG]

Originally Posted by Rockx

Do you have any verifiable proof he was offered that much?

No, I dont. I was emplying that its a very high probablility that the UFC is offering more money then Strikeforce is

[joeyP]

but it's simple, the UFC isn't offering co-promotion. that's all you need to know

[Fedorfan]

Well first things first - the UFC did NOT offer Fedor that much money but more importantly (and for the record i was really hoping he would come to the UFC and own) the underlying fact why he didnt sign in my view was that he is a SHARE HOLDER in M1 Global - ok now imagine youre in his shoes, if you sign a NO CO PROMOTION deal with UFC, then your company (M1 Global) will essentially rot away - lets face it Fedor is the only thing it has going for it and it molds its business around him. Put simply in business terms, if Fedors reps couldn't agree to Co-promote with the UFC and in the process gain publicity in the US in promoting their brand name, as well as leech of the money the super-fights would net in, then it made no sense for from a business standpoint to agree to him to sign a deal.

Futhermore the UFC would probably not agree to a 1-off co-promoted or not, super-fight between say Fedor and Brock simply because if Fedor wins, he takes the belt and walks away and in the proccess not only generates more publicity for himself and M1 Global but leaves the UFC egg-faced in trying to say that their HW division has a legitimate champion after that.