Thanks;
Amanda

Mark Cuban is a smart man and everything you said was pretty much speculation and opinion not backed up by facts. He IS bringing it to the masses…plain and simple. HDNet costs SIX @#%^ing DOLLARS A MONTH. Not to mention you get 20 other HD channels so you can actually see crap in HD.

Buying PRIDE was just an OK move by the UFC but they paid way too much. It would have only been good had they got Takanori Gomi and Fedor along with everyone else. They didn’t.

The PRIDE purchase was a bust.

1.) Have you ever heard of a non-compete? Why are the PRIDE people aloud to create DREAM? If Mark Cuban would have bought PRIDE, those guys wouldn’t be able to watch MMA, much less be involved in it.

2.) The purchase didn’t secure Fedor, Gomi or the other fighters in the deal.

3.) They should have kept PRIDE running in Japan, and bring the fighters back and forth.

Mark Cuban is an investor who is going to sell high. As far as MMA he is not smart like Dana in anyway. NO WAY NO HOW! Cuban has done nothing for MMA aside from providing a pretty picture on my television. It seems you dislike Dana but you should remember what he has done for MMA in the USA, Canada, UK and he’ll continue to spread it around like cancer. Buying out Pride was a great move for the UFC. By doing that they got rid of their only competition and a great established promotion. Cuban is a drama queen. Personally I wish he owned one of the sports teams I route for but he is a drama queen. Since when is Cuban the MMA Santa Clause putting on events for the masses!?!? I have to pay extra f-ing MONEY to get that HD ****! Wonder where my money goes……I bet not even a dime goes to Cuban.

Dana, the smartest man in MMA? Not!!! Mark Cuban is the smartest. And unlike Dana, he made his own millions many times over on his own. Unlike Dana, who happend to be a childhood friend of Lorenzo Fertitta. And while managing Tito Ortiz, he told Lorenzo he should buy the UFC. Then screws over Tito in the end.

Remember, when Dana convinced the Ferttita brothers to buy PRIDE for $65million? What did they get? The most expensive video library. They didn’t get the fighters. I’m sure Zuffa is still writing off the losses on that deal.

If the UFC doesn’t learn to play nice, co-promote and let fighters appear on other promotions it won’t last.

Mark Cuban, if you haven’t noticed, puts on his own events on HDNet and broadcasts Dream and many other promotions for the masses. He is also the one paying the attorney fees to get Randy Couture released from the UFC’s slavery contract.