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Mark Cuban Attempts To Sign Fedor Emelianenko For HDNet’s Friday Fight Night

Posted By: Bruno Published in Fighter Talk

Sep

Mark Cuban and Fedor Emelianenko

The biding war for the world’s best MMA fighter Fedor Emelianenko has heated up this week. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban looks to have thrown himself into the mix.

Cuban’s growing High Definition TV network is looking to boost its most highly rated program. Friday Fight Night plays a variety of MMA action. Mostly small fight shows from different promoters each week. It looks like Cuban may be looking for a big name to start his own promoting game.

If he lands the biggest dog in the park it will be easy to entice other promoters to bring in their big dogs for a fight. Seams like an easy way to fill a complete fight card and get loads of viewers at the same time. Cuban knows it takes a lot of money to make a lot of money and his pockets are deep enough to outbid most of Fedor’s suiters.

This new interest in Fedor may help persuade the UFC to soften its stance and finally get around to signing MMA’s true heavyweight champ.

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HESSNOID Says, in 9-4-2007 at 14:52:38 from 68.121.32.133

I think if he is able to get Fedor signed up, that will be good thing for the sport of MMA long term. The more organizations competing for the best talent will help to also compensate the athletes better.
You can see that after Pride was bought out, nothing has happened with that organization. It looks like most but not all of those athletes that competed on that organization are idling just waiting for their contracts to run out or for UFC to give them a chance.
More competition is best for the sport. I think IFL, Showtime Elite XC, Chuck Norris Combat League, King of the Cage, and other venues is helping build a larger base of mma fans.

Rick Says, in 9-5-2007 at 10:03:14 from 75.161.40.38

I totally agree with Hessnoid. A monopoly on MMA would just hurt the sport.

dave Says, in 9-13-2007 at 00:12:48 from 67.83.123.42

Its also being saturated with non talent.Going mainstream now.Ill be surprised if it lasts as long as the poker craze-Also the judging needs alot of shoreing up!Will see?Cuban has no end to those deep pockets, Fedor is his!In the end only one will survive!

Carlo Says, in 9-14-2007 at 16:29:22 from 70.90.174.173

This is bad news. We’ll get the same situation in which the best fighters are divided between organizations and they never meet in competition. Who is Fedor going to fight? Will Mark Coleman be his first opponent in Cuban’s new organization? Who wants to see Fedor defeat Coleman the exact way he did twice before?

I understand the salary advantages that fighters might get with two or more major MMA organizations competing with each other; nonetheless, the top fighters can get paid rather well in the UFC. Anyway, the fans will lose out if Cuban acquires Fedor. Period.

Don Frye Says, in 9-21-2007 at 22:50:25 from 72.148.87.117

Listen up boneheads: You need ONE organization. Do you want to dilute the talent base? What if there were 10 NFL organizations. Alot of football players that would NOT make it if their were only ONE PREMIER LEAGUE…You need ONE MMA organization signing the BEST. You want Rampage with one league, shogun with another, and Liddell in yet another MMA organization? It could happen with Cuban in the Mix. It would be AWFUL. No great fighting matchups..think about that…Hope cuban falls on his a$$….We need that to happen for us..the fans…