Gegard Can Only Fight When Fedor Fights
by Zach Krantz on Dec 8, 2009 1:36 PM EST
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Ariel Helwani reports:
When asked when he expects to fight in MMA again, Mousasi noted that his contract states he can only compete on the same Strikeforce shows that feature his fellow M-1 Global fighter, Fedor Emelianenko.
"So when he fights, I will fight too. But sooner would be also be fine by me," he wrote.
That is bizarre. This clearly was a conceding point on behalf of Strikeforce as they have no gain with this clause. This is unfortunate for fans and the promotion. My guess is M-1's purpose is to build Mousasi by having him fight on Fedor's cards. They are clearly the only two M-1 Global fighters of significant value and the company is going to use them to build up each other and M-1 Global.
Update: Scott Coker talked to Josh Gross and said that Mousasi isn't required to be fight when Fedor does.
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And this is why
UFC did not sign Fedor. They basically want to run the company for the right to have Fedor fight 4 or 5 fights.
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I would love to know why seemingly alpha males like Gegard and Fedor are so vested in M-1. I guess Fedor has some ownership stake, but what’s Gegard’s story. A one point it sounded like he woudl have rather fought for the UFC and was bitter about the SF contract. Why can’t he just come to his own decisions?
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