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Quote of the Day - M-1 Global
By Zach Arnold | March 27, 2008
From Leland Roling of MMA-Analyst.com:
Zach Arnold called it… I bow to the Nostradamus of FightOpinion.com. The interesting part about all of this is that it very much seems like M-1 Global had less money than what was originally thought. Fedor’s demands were extremely high, and their European division wanted “glitz and glamour” over actual quality in their fights. The differences amount to one side wanting PRIDE, and the other side wanting HDNet Fights, and we all know what happened to PRIDE. Monte Cox made a smart move regardless if M-1 Global in the States succeeds or not.
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This M1 stuff is a big black eye for the MMA internet media. Maybe they will start asking tough questions instead of letting themselves get used as a form of advertising from now on.
This Monte Cox abused everyone when he made all these false claims about having a fighter under contract, when in reality he didn’t. He should be blackballed by the MMA media until he gets his act together. And I don’t think he can get his act together. He played everyone for fools.
Well, seems that Monte Cox was guilty of believing the same crap that he sold to all of those gullible (still surviving) Pride marks
But it shouldnt only be Monte Cox that takes the blame, he just sold his credibility. The real jokers in all of this are Fedor and his managers. Fedor cant hide behind his managers too much longer; seems like since Pride has disappeared, all of the Pride marks are projecting their Pride fantasies onto the decaying legacy of Fedor and Crocop
Before everyone starts patting each other on the back (especially Zach), he should now step up and cut Dana White and the UFC some slack. Quite a many idiots in the mma world were all over the UFC for not signing Fedor, blaming Dana for not doing enough. Reality is, there was nothing Dana and the UFC could have ever done, Fedor wasn’t going to sign. He and Finklestein were liars and con man, who were only interested in playing the UFC for some free press.
Con men or smart business men with no scruples whatsoever.
I think UFC avoided getting taken for a ride on that one, but I suspect it was more luck than knowledge of how crooked the Russians were.
I also don’t see any reason for Zach to cut Dana any slack. I don’t agree with Zach or Jeff’s constantly negative view, but this is the internet, apologies are not necessary, and UFC needs critical voices as much as any entity does.
Dana will just have to man up and take it in public, while wiping his brow with a sweatrag and thanking the fight gods that he didn’t get taken on that deal, unlike Pride.
I kind of disagree Jeremy.
After the negotiations failed, Dana is on the record calling Finklestein a ‘crazy russian’. Call it luck if you want, but it seems like Dana saw right through Finklestein’s games and bullshit.
Back on our mma message board (www.stonecoldbillyray.com), we went back and forth about this. Many people blamed dana.
But Dana also has a tendency to badmouth people that he can’t close deals with. It’s a dirty negotiating tactic that doesn’t work particularly well, but it is one nonetheless.
It’s kind of the business equivalent of “I didn’t want to play with your stupid GI Joes anyway.”
It’s not as unique to Dana as some would like to believe.
I don’t know very many people who ‘fell for’ M-1, pretty much every opinion site was calling it fishy from the start. The news sites just reported the news, it’s not really their place to judge one way or another.
Jeremy, I don’t think luck had anything to do with it. It may come as a shock, but Dana White is actually incredibly good at what he does. Sure, he gets a lot of criticism, but he always seems to come out on top.
I don’t know very many people who ‘fell for’ M-1, pretty much every opinion site was calling it fishy from the start. The news sites just reported the news, it’s not really their place to judge one way or another.
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thats totally false, the mma media fell for this thing from day-1. i bet there are very few if any articles with any of these sites calling this thing fishy
FL, Zach stated that he didn’t believe that they would make it past one event, if any events at all. My opinion during the radio show was that they’d at least make it to two or three under their current structure.
Zach was right, but yes, nobody really ever thought that the promotion would make it as far as my own site’s writers or FO, or any of the other opinionated websites out there including yours. In fact, I pointed out on that particular show how Sibling was structured with shell companies and how the company really didn’t have a lot of capital.
Yeah, but did he also correctly predict that they were morons, idiots, retards, and cockfaces? I did. That’s 4/4. Where’s my prophet of doom credit?????
They don’t need Fedor, they’ve got Timmy Sylvia BABY!!!!!!!!
And they’re ADRENALINE MMA…feel the extreme attitude dude!
FL,
LOL, I think the consensus was that they were morons, idoits, retards, and cockfaces. When I did the research regarding the company and found the shitstorm of shell companies and moving around of assets from one company to the other, and the massively low amounts of money that they were reporting, it just looked like a bad deal. Most people wrote this company off instantly.