Can anyone beat Fedor?

[sisforshaq]

Im not a die hard MMA fan but I hear this dude is the greatest of all time. What's the deal?

[jakkups]

6 years as the top heavyweight MMA fighter in the world. Beaten every top contender to his throne in convincing fashion. And he doesn't seem to show any signs of slowing or weakness for that matter. I honestly think knowone can beat him. Click on the link in my sig. You can download or watch every fight he has ever had. The guy has a loss on his record which should've been ruled a no-contest but under the rules of RINGS it was a tournament and someone had to advance so they let his opponent have the win. However they did have a rematch in which Fedor damn near ****d the guy. So he, like great fighters such as Lennox Lewis, has beaten virtually everyone he has ever faced.

[j]

u mean, besides me, right?



.....maybe, the t-1000.

[jakkups]

And this guy

[roujinziro]

Brett Rogers. He took out Arlovski in 22seconds and would do the same to Fedor :P

[sisforshaq]

Why doesn't he come to the ufc?

[daragez]

nice share!.....thanks!...

[FreshPrince]

Cain Velásquez should be ready to beat him in two years.

I honestly think Lesnar would beat him now, assuming his submission defense has improved vastly over the pat year.

[Drunken Cat]

Why doesn't he come to the ufc?

Basically, it's the UFC exclusive contracts which has been the deal breaker in the negotiations in my view. The UFC ties its fighters into contracts in which the UFC effectively ownes the fighters as its private assets.

Furthermore, when a fighter becomes a UFC champion, he is effectively tied into his UFC contract until he either loses a fight or retires. This occured when Randy Couture attempted to get out of his contract in order to pursue a fight with Fedor, and a drawn-out legal battle ensued. Ultimately, Couture dropped his suit in order to accept a big-money fight against Brock Lesnar.

I've voiced my opposition to the UFC's contracts on this forum on numerous occasions, and in my opinion they are indeed criminal from an anti-trust point of view because of their effect on stifling competition. Still, I doubt that they will see a fair day in court any time soon, as our economic system is rotten at the head and the UFC's business practices are merely a result. In fact, in the current corporate climate you could even argue that they don't have a whole lot of choice in the matter.

[Drunken Cat]

Also, I can imagine that someone will come back and say that the UFC owning its fighters as property is a normal situation, however I would beg to differ. It seems more normally the case in combat sports, indeed sports in general, that the athlete behaves more as a freelancer, selling their services to the promotional entity.

In the case of boxing, while surely there are promoters who hold fighters under there thumbs (a situation broadly recognized as detrimental to the sport), it is most often the case that a fighter operates under the umbrella of his management team, which in turn handles negotiations and generally steers the career of the fighter. In the case of the UFC, they have sought to combine these elements of promoter and manager, so that the UFC is in control of steering the career of the fighters and the fighters themselves are in an inherently inferior position.

Again, this is not unheard of practice in boxing either, however you do not hear people praising Don King for such practices. Furthermore, the lack of viable competitors to the UFC in the MMA-promotional industry gives the UFC a stronger hand with which to negotiate against its fighters.

Finally, Dana White, with his personality-cult mentality regarding himself, is a symbol of all which I have spoken of above which is wrong with the promotion. Just look at how he conducts himself around the fighters, he essentially treats them as if they're his fighting ****s, subordinating them to himself. This is outrageous, and when you consider that Dana White is nothing but a goofball who clearly has an inferiority complex in regards to said fighters, the roots of White's bizzaro management style begin to take shape.