Fedor is not fighting for his legacy, best believe that

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It's not Fedor's job to get the best matchups in UFC, it's Dana White's, and thus it's White's fault that this deal fell through. Dana knows Fedor would beat Lesnar, and is scared to split the inevitable windfall with someone else. It's just a real tragedy that the best MMA company in the world does not have the best MMA heavyweight in the world.

[VictorCharlie]

Lets look at this another way. If for arguments sake we say Tom Brady is the best QB in the NFL and next year decided to play for the CFL. Who really looks dumber the league with almost every top football player except Brady or the best QB playing in a league devoid of any players of comparable skill? Scared to split the earnings? Seriously why should he have to? The UFC has been tremendously successful without Fedor and will continue to be. Cant fault Fedor for looking out for his own best interests but lots not be absurd and suggest that the UFC didnt offer the best MMA contract in the history of the sport.

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That's probably not entirely true. I think we can all agree that Fedor is not afraid of any man on earth, least of all Brock Lesnar who doesn't possess close to the amount of skills Fedor has, so in that essence it must have come down to money, and what Dana was offering may very well have been a higher guarantee as far as money per fight than Strikeforce, but it wouldn't have equaled the amount Fedor could generate with him fighting in Strikeforce IN ADDITION to his earnings as part owner of his company, which is the earnings he would be forced to abandon had he signed with UFC. Bottom line, Fedor's total earnings with the UFC would not have been as much as his total earnings with Strikeforce. It obviously did come down to money, and Dana offering him more than any other UFC fighter is irrelevant if that is less than what he saw he could make with promotional control. De la Hoya raked in over $40 million for fighting Floyd and over $30 million for fighting Hopkins, partly do to the money he recouped as a result of his stake in Golden Boy Promotions. It would have not made sense for him to fight Floyd under a promotion by say Bob Arum or Don King and make $25 million guaranteed when he could pull in an additional $15 million helming part of the promotion.

[VictorCharlie]

Well then we agree. Fedor may have taken a better deal. I think we will have to see what Strikeforce can put together and if M1 will ruin them like they did Bodog and Affliction before its 100% sure he will make more money, but Dana was just as right not give up a percentage of UFCs profit. The UFC just did 1.5 million PPV buys, Fedor has never been on a card that got even close to that. Neither party needs each other what so ever. I dont fault either party but if Fedor wanted to fight the best HWs in the world then that is in the UFC hands down. What was once the joke of all HW divisions has grown into a pretty competitive division. Not really anyone on his level but the best there is.