UFC Plans July 31 Press Conference For Major Announcements
The UFC will soon make several major announcements, according to UFC President Dana White, who said during a charity radio appearance on ESPN 11oo in Las Vegas on Friday that the promotion will hold a press conference on July 31 to announce “a lot of crazy things”.
The UFC could use the press conference to offer additional details on its recently-announced “collaboration” with Affliction, with the latest reports suggesting that the UFC is “likely to absorb the contracts of all Affliction fighters except [Fedor] Emelianenko”.
A deal to air UFC events on ESPN or ABC is also not out of the question to be announced at the presser, with White saying during his radio appearance that ESPN executive John Skipper attended UFC 100 earlier this month, leading to speculation that deal could be in the works to bring MMA to the networks.
Stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com for the latest MMA news and MMA rumors, including coverage of the July 31 press conference.
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“Absorbing contracts” eh? Could be interesting, that would essentially be one to two fight contracts with the UFC for these guys. Could be a good “in” for them… Gilbert Yvel in the UFC… Wonder what would happen if he decked the moustache…
Honestly with this deal going on MMA just got 10x more exciting!
I’m going almost crazy with the thoughts of who could possibly be matched up with who and who might upset who…
I cant wait to see what happens.
acorrding to a source fedor and lesnar will lock horns at ufc 103 in dallas texas. the undisputed heavyweight championship will be on the line.
Getting the networks involved is such a gigantic step forward. GI-NORMOUS
Well I think Gomi, Mousasi, Buentello, Fedor, Babalu, Sylvia and a few others will not be aquired by ZUFFA… And there is NO WAY Dana would allow anyone with one fight left on their “contract” to fight in the WEC or UFC, he will have new contracts in hand and say sign or get the F on.. This is the time for Lorenzo Fertitta to negotiate with the Russians imo, but explain to them this is the 2nd and last opportunity for their client to come to the UFC (first refering to the Purchase of PRIDE) so if he wants to fight the best bring him to the UFC… I think that Lorenzo would allow him to do Sambo too but that is an entirely different conversation…. I see M~1 Global being the reason Fedor doesn’t come to the UFC this time not the UFC itself!
Good stuff.. I hope that they are saying they arn’t getting Fedor as a publicity statement then they announce it, and a fight with Brock
Just so people understand how this works.. becuase I know a lot of people DO NOT get what happens when the contracts are “absorbed”.. (hi dbiz much talk but yah.. lemme give ya some learnins.. ok) this is my understanding but be advised I’m Canadian so there may be some differences.
So.. your contract is sold to a new employer.. you and you employer both can honor it or walk away.. the employer usually dosn’t because. well.. they bought the contract.. DUH.
Now you CAN walk away UNLESS your contract was originally drafted as transferrable and you signed it. Then you are beat.
If it wasn’t then the contact can be considered void because you did not sign it to be contracted to whoever absorbed the contract.. AKA.. their signature is not on the document. Hope everyone is keeping up.
At this point you can honor it yourself, basically by signing a new contract or contract adjustment, at this point whoever absorbed it can also sneak some new stuff in, or you can walk and not sign any new contract. This is a contract re-negotiation.
So who knows how these contracts are drafted.. but it is really unlikely that you will see people just walk away from the best job in town.. like I said in another thread.. sure you don’t technically get the exact same contract or 100% get the fighters you buy the contracts for but hey.. nobody ever walks away. I can’t think of anyone who ever has, if you can.. feel free to spread the knowledge.
If not stop crying about buying contracts like it is something that has never worked in the past or is a waste of time because if it was people wouldn’t do it.. and the reality is the exact opposite.
So… You’re saying no one walked away from their contract when the UFC bought Pride?
No Fedor did hehe
No idea where my comments are going.. its early here for me so maybe I am missing something.. I know I am moderated but I usually can at least see comments in limbo.. can’t ATM..
Fedor didn’t but if they had of stuck to the original contract that was transferred he woul dhave I would guess..
But lookt at the fighters we got from pride by buying contracts..
D.henderson
Big.Nog
Rampage
Shogun
mores…….
so it does work and will hopefully work again!
Maaaaaybe we should just leave the contract “splaining” to people like Justin or fr702 or dbiz or someone like that…
Vinz,
I think Scott Coker knows more about “buying” MMA contracts than you do, especially in the US. When Strikeforce purchased E-XC’s assets, including contracts, they had to go to each fighter with a FRESH contract to sign. Some did, some didn’t. Some used the opportunity to get a better deal.
In the US, personal services contracts are to my knowledge never transferable simply because the new owner is not signatory to the original contract. Allowing straight sales/transfers becomes tantamount to human trafficking, for lack of a better phrase.
More simply, contracts are binding between the parties which signed them. When one of those parties sells the contract, they are offering a new party a shot at the services but a new contract MUST be signed naming the parties involved. There is no guarantee that the new party will gain the services offered.
Love, dbiz
acoording to a source close to me lesnar and fedor will fight mat ufc 193 in dallas texas on sept 19th. when you have sources like the t man no need to wait till the 31st
i think the UFC should puplicly “call out” Fedor! Talk some smack, piss him off! Make him and everyone else feel like he is “ducking” “real competition!”
BECAUSE HE IS!!!!!!!!!! IMO
Fedor cannot be pissed of, if he was that kind of guy who cared what people said, he would have lost a long time ago. Plus, you guys buy up everything dana white throws at you, this is business, they will bring fedor, everyone would pay big money to see him fight and especially against Lesnar, can you even imagine the how big that would be? trust me, it will happen!
only Dana White will make an announcement, that they are gunna make an announcements??????????
Just kinda weird to me, but still preaty cool
Hahaha, so true.
Like fr702 said ….. they dont have any of the really good fighters under contract . They were borrowed from other orgs .
that is not true…….ufc could potentially get gilbert yvel, jay hieron, chirs horadeski, vitor belfort,lindland, Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, Vladimir Matyushenko ,dan lauzon, brett cooper,buentello and others
Only if those fighters are not signed with any other orgs. Since their contracts with Affliction were non-exclusive, it is entirely likely that some or all have signed other non-exclusive contracts.
Since the UFC doesn’t do non-exclusive contracts (in regards to other MMA orgs, and I would believe K1 or other kickboxing groups), a lot of them won’t make it over.
I wish he would announce the real headliners for UFC 105!
They brought Afflication to their knees.. right on!!
I also hear they are doing some massive online poker deal. Can’t wait to hear details.
first off this so crazy, mma is now at the most pivitol[hope thats the right spelling]time of their existance. thank you frenzy your reports are great!!!!now we have a new major sport. ufc is like the nfl now and fighting for strikforce or other little shows is like playin the canadien football league or the areana football league. sure we will gets some stars playin over in japan and some stars comin over here to be stars like the guys playing in the mlb. the only thing i worry about is dana white is like the owner of all the teams, i really just hope he is fair to all the players. he really is ruthless sometimes, and i hope the brothers deal and pay some of the people that deserve to be payed.we dont want all the big heavyweights in japan.but i cant wait to see what happens with tito and all the other big name affliction people. i see multiple losses in brocks future. him and josh barnett are jokes.i dont think randy c. or lesner will be on the top 10 in one years time!!!!!!!
You are nuts to think that Brock is a joke. Some people are so blind due to the fact that he was in the WWE. You don’t do what he did to Mir, Couture, and Herring by chance. Brock is no joke.
im sorry i dont think he is that good. his striking with the standup is not that good!!!!sorry i think he would beat mir again, but i also think mir could beat him. the way he beat heath is one thing. heath lost to jake obrien the same way dominated with better wrestling.heath was in a real close win that could of either way with congo. sorry heath does not ever look dominate anymore. randy c. cant take a hit like he was could.randy c is 16-9 and will be 16-10 after the nog. fight that does not impress me sorry.real beast fight everyone and still have great records. nog is like 30-5, dan henderson is another person who has always fought the best and is like25-7. if you think if he fights carwin,nog,fedor, oveerhem,crocop,even werdum or barnett,he would walk right through these guys your crazy!!!!!like i said i see loses in brocks future.
I expect an announcement on the re-acquistion of Tito Ortiz, as well as the contracts being brought over from affliction to the ufc.
And….hoping Dana and company announce Shake-ups for the UFC 103 LINEUP including the main event of Belfort vs. Henderson and Ortiz vs. Franklin
MAN! That would awesome…Dana has said himself he knows the fans are dissapointed in the main event already at 103.
If they are going to change the main event of UFC 103, and if they want to have a part 2 of a fight it should be Fedor vs. Crop Cop.
The problem with Fedor versus CroCop is that the UFC jut signed Mirko to a new deal.
Mirko needs the same type of opponents that Michael Bisping does, namely, stand-up strikers like themselves that either lack the attitude or the aptitude to take a fight to the ground, where if you have the proper skillset a fight can be more easily won.
The UFC gains nothing by throwing Mirko into the cage with an accomplisged ground fighter like Fedor.
Mirko needs to fight a guy like Heath Herring to get back on the winning track, and gain some time to work on a ground game if he’s serious about competing in the UFC. Also, a rematch with Kongo would be in order, considering Kongo’s mat cluelessness.
Also, Fedor’s PRIDE skillset can best be described as Japanese shoot-fighter set on MAXIMUM.
In a cage, that skillset is only made more effective. Mirko in all likelihood wouldn’t make it out of the first round if Fedor fought him in a cage.
But if you want to see Mikro get submitted or g-n-p’ed in 5 minutes or less, thats your call, I don’t want to ruin your fun, as I’m a supporter of neither man…
hendo-franklin is already signed, so i highly doubt they will fight other people. however hendo has nothing to gain from fighting a guy he already beat who is maybe at best top 10 at 205. major announcements are this…
tito is back
tito will get destroyed and I [dana] will laugh and then proceed to “take care” of his girlfriend/wife
fedor is garbage and he will never fight in the ufc, brock is the number 1 hw in the world.
F-WAMMA!!!!
Vitor is back
Wandy-Anderson will happen at 107 for the mw title
The UFC has just purchased Las Vegas and I [dana] proclaim myself president of the city
I[dana] have decided to run for president and i will win
GSP-Machida will happen for the toronto/montreal event in the next year.
I have aqquired some of fedor’s DNA and have created a clone, and he will be my/the UFC’s biatch. i dont have to pay him and i can expose his overrated pudgy self.
Nice shootin’, Tex
President of the city hahaha nice, I myself am the President of JellyBeans
Mmmm… jellybeans… Those sound as good tonight as shrooms and vodka sounded last night.
time to get some firewater, and go home to the alamo for me aint it j?
just to let you know in case you didnt already know, cro cop-fedor happened in pride, and fedor won a Unanimous [sp] decision. however cro-cop beat fedor’s brother alexsander [sp] and barnett in a Unanimous decision as well.
I was aware, but thanks nonetheless, bigchris2328.
And I highly doubt Mirko would last 15 minutes in a cage with a ground fighter like Fedor.
I knew Mirko beat Barnett in a ring back in the PRIDE day, but I’d love to see them rematch now in a cage, where Barnett could really work some of his scientific wrestling magic to better effect.
Oh, yeah, if he could ever pass a urine test, that is.
F~WAMMA
F~Barnett and kinda Thank you Barnett tho he still is a dik
Anyone think it’s possible that they may be bringing back Pride? Lorenzo was wearing a Pride shirt @ UFC100, and Lorenzo was the one who got Cro Cop to sign. Maybe the plan all along has been for Dana to run the UFC(American) side of the promotion and for Lorenzo to run Pride(International). It seems as though the UFC has a really good relationship with Spike, and I do not know if a broadcast deal would really make that big of a difference to the UFC. Perhaps the ESPN deal isn’t for the UFC, but rather for Pride. All the international events would be broadcast on ESPN just as ESPN broadcast the UFC events in Great Britain. Just a thought, but it seems that Pride was, and may still be, more popular than the UFC on an international stage. So if they own the Pride, why not use it to your advantage?
Really good point, 605, and well thought out IMO, but I can answer your question with one word.
Ego.
Zuffa bought, strip-mined, and shelved PRIDE to prove amongst other things that the UFC is the “best mother-fu<king MMA promotion on this entire fu<king planet", as Dana himself would say.
If you need another one word answer, I got you covered 605.
Money.
Dana White, and the Fertitas, are all about the branding of the UFC, and their trademark Octagon and model. No way in H*ll that we're ever going to see Zuffa putting on MMA shows in a boxing or pro wrestling ring, having the first round of a bout be twice as long as the second, or waving off the hard-earned market penetration and visibility of the UFC brand in the UK by bringing back the PRIDE brand.
605, if I had to guess, I would say that if in fact Lo Fertita was wearing a PRIDE shirt at UFC 100 [I honestly did not notice either way], he was doing it to make a point, and throw out a good-natured FU<K YOU to all those that thought the UFC would never make it too 100 shows, or earn their first $100 million, or doubted that someday the UFC would become the ultimate power in the MMA universe.
Really cool idea, 605, just never gonna happen in this lifetime, my friend…
Didn’t the former Pride owners just go create Dream? IMO the UFC did not get what they wanted at all when they killed Pride.. the Pride guys got a great deal.. A **** ton of money and they still have a great promotion for MMA.
lol “F~Barnett ” thats gold
Bring back the King of G&P ORTIZ!!!
I cant wait to see what so called “Absorbing contracts”
the UFC gets.
so many good fights there
Man if there was ever a time for the UFC to acquire Fedor its now, Fedor needs the UFC way more than vice versa. Strikeforce is awesome but they will never beat out the UFC. I hope they get Fedor, announce the resigning of Tito, get Belfort, Babalu, Paul Daley and maybe a few others, the heavyweight division would be helped if they were to get Tim Sylvia, Arlovski (though the Brett Rogers loss hurt his value bad), Yvel and maybe Buentello. Some I think they’ll sign long term deals, but most will get short term “lets see what ya got in the big leagues” deals.
Hey Ram StrikeForce isn’t nor has ever tried to “beat” the UFC, they are just attempting to do their own thing which is what they have done for some time now with awesome success
Yvel and Buentello AA and Timmehh in the UFC well 3 out of the 4 have fought in the UFC already 2 have been HW champion and 1 has an opportunity of getting a contract from the UFC, you guess which one.
Paul Daley well I’m not sure but hey most likely will fight for StrikeForce imho
After doing some research, I’m convinced that Strikeforce is using exactly the correct business and promotional model needed to thrive in today’s MMA climate.
Competing with the UFC will get you killed, so it seems best to just try and consistently deliver a quality product, know your strengths and weaknesses, develop your own talent, and work hard to improve your organization.
And in all honestly I think Strikeforce has a decent shot of getting a Fedor appearance. Not immediately, because I think Fedor’s next appearance will be at M-1 Breakthrough, probably against Pat Miletich or Guy Metzger or someone equally unable to cause him to break a sweat, but next year, and maybe in a bout with Brett Rogers, if he isn’t in the UFC by then…
That would be an awesome idea 605. Since it seems the UFC has a ton of fighters and “absorbing” more. But they would have to have an annual UFC vs Pride show, just thinking of such goodness gets me all wet. haha jk
It is nowhere near as simple as “absorbing a contract.” as DBiz has said on numerous occaisions, personal services contracts are not valid after they’ve been bought out. All you’re doing is buying the right to negotiate with the fighter.
I’m too drunk to deal with any more of this crap tonight.
I understand where you are coming from, that drunk thing will kick your ass every now and again
What type of blackmail is this? You can have fedor if we put are company in there too? No, your company is not a legit and recognized company, and the UFC doesnt co-promote. Give Fedor a three fight deal in the UFC. If anything Fedor’s manager should just ask for alot of money too and be happy with that. M-1 Global is never going to launch, so what’s the point of co-promoting with an upstart company from russia?
Welcome Tito Ortiz!!!!! Glad to see you back and ready to kick some A#$.
Any word on these announcements yet? When exactly is the press conference going to be?