Maybe this is old news, but, anyway. He’s supposed to fight Fedor, if they can get him.
…HDNet Fights has entered into a contract with Couture that is scheduled to commence upon the expiration of his Zuffa promotional agreement. At that time, the company plans to promote a fight between Couture and Fedor Emelianenko in Dallas, assuming terms can be reached with the highly regarded Russian heavyweight…
I can’t wait until Dana tells us that, “Randy bitched out of his motherfucking contract, and is a fucking disgrace!”
Damn, good thing I live in the D-F-Dub…!
Awesome, please let this fight happen.
Why is he turning into the evil fight promoter from like every bad 90’s MA movie
Zuffa will win and Randy can’t fight with an other organization. He’s getting bad advice if he thinks he can.
I’m just glad that he’s trying to fight the man.
Has fedor any fights scheduled which could give us an idea of when this could happen (after coutures ufc contract expires).
Speakinf of which, is the ufc contract based on a number of fights or time?
I don’t think can go anywhere until the courts finish deciding the issue of when Coture’s contract ends.
I’m confused… there’s a 6 month no compete clause. Is that what is ending in June or his contract?
In this case, Randy is certainly the underdog to Zuffa.
When Randy is the underdog, he always wins.
Randy will be fighting Fedor come October.
Randy has two contracts with Zuffa, or at least a single contract with two sets of obligations.
The first part is a four fight contract, he only fought 2 of the 4 and therefore Zuffa say his next two fights are with them. If he retires then so be it,but if he fights again he needs to fight for them 2 fights and then he is free thereafter.
He also signed a UFC promotional contract that he would promote the UFC and no other rival organisations during this period that expires around October 2008 (this year).
Randy is saying that in October all contracts with the UFC expire including any unfought fights.
Dana is saying - Randy is trying to screw us, he has to fight with us twice more or not at all, and also he has already broken his other contract by cornering his fighters in Team Couture in other fight leagues.
Who is right, probably they both are partly, and until Dana files court documents and gets orders to the contrary Randy will do what he pleases,
Currently they are all playing brinkmanship 101.
I really want to see Fedor fight someone good, and Randy looks to be that man at the moment.
I don’t get why Randy wouldn’t at least want to fight Nog, though. Granted this would only take care of one fight on the contract, but still I would think he would just want to fight him in general in addition to Fedor.
Imagine a career ending fight against the best fighter in the division versus waiting another year or two possibly getting more serious injuries like the broken arm in the gonzaga fight. I think he doesn’t wants to go out like some many other great fighters.