Who is hating the UFC here? Well, other than Ivan. They’re completely in the right to do this. Its the mouthbreathers who repeat this stuff that Zach and I are mocking.

Jeremy,

Meltzer confirms in the latest Observer that the information as released by Carmichael was exactly the same as he received and was the information that UFC wanted out in the public domain. Here’s the key quote from Meltzer’s story on this issue:

“Carmichael Dave, a Sacramento radio host who is close friends with Dana White, laid out what he was told was the offer UFC made Emelianenko. For what it’s worth, and this is not verifying the story as much as confirming this is the story UFC wanted out, but what he said were the exact same things we had been told earlier in the week.”

Putting pressure on Fedor to fight in the UFC is just like collecting an unpaid bail. I support the activist media campaign agaisnt Fedor.

30 millions for 6 fights is a pretty good guess though it should be cited as a guess.

Good article. It is very, very rare to find an objective piece of journalism in all of mma. Congratulations, this is one of the few I have ever read.

White has a stranglehold on the mma media. Those he does not own, are intimidated by the UFC or have access cut off. We have seen how it works. Dana is a pathological liar and does not deserve Fedor. Hopefully we see him in Strikeforce on CBS and Showtime. I won’t spend a dime on the UFC because of White.

Good work!

Clearly this was someone posting bullshit on Wikipedia. Of course it’s fake! Hell, I remember a while back someone posted on the Kirby videogame page that Uwe Boll was going to do a Kirby live action movie, which was clearly false. And on the Chuck Norris page Wikipedia had to lock it for a while because a bunch of people were posting the Chuck Norris jokes.

But anyway, I wanted to share this “find
” with everyone.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedor_Emelianenko

Fedor officially joins the UFC

On Thursday July 30, 2009, UFC president Dana White officially announced the signing of Fedor Emelianenko in an undisclosed contract agreement. Dana White has posted the signing on his twitter page and Sherdog.com has confirmed these reports. Fedor’s Manger, Vadim Finklestein, has been quoted as saying, “now we will see who the best in the world is.” referring to a probable Fedor vs Lesnar match in the near future.

-What the hell…did wikipedia just break a major mma newstory? Obviously this has to be fake….right?

Even regular news journalists report with a hint of persuasion.”

Are you serious? Just about ALL MMA writers out there are condemning Fedor for not going to UFC. And all of them are saying Fedor should go to the UFC, listing reasons why. How is that not being persuasive?

And as you said, many journalists may give a HINT of persuasion, but that is merely a hint. There’s a VERY fine line to cross. Good journalists don’t cross or even come across that line.