1. UFC does not sign Fedor

2. UFC won’t resign Arlovski

3. UFC won’t do a co-promotion with M-1 to bring the most in demand fight in history to us, the fans, and file a lawsuit against their own champ Randy Couture.

4. We now get a chance to see Sylvia become champ again.

5. Werdum, although a good fighter is the #1 contender.

my response to these points…

1. Not being able to sign Fedor was a huge mistake. Also the terms they offered him being made public was not very flattering to their business approach. We got to see how they do business and props to Fedor for saying no to a contract he didn’t like.

2. By not signing Arlovski they are making a huge mistake and are letting him pretty much go to M-1 for a really good fight with Fedor which will happen. Especially if Cuban gets on board. Will you buy that PPV? I will. And the UFC will get nothing from it. Good news for M-1 because this would be their first major event.

3. By not allowing Randy to fight Fedor in a cross-promotion, the UFC is losing major $$$!! This PPV would be Huge money, and it looks asthough when October rolls around and Randy’s contract is up, M-1 is gonna treat him very well financially. The UFC says that Randy owes them 2 more fights, but why then is there a time span until October? This will apparently be up to the judge to decide. Either way, this fight will happen.

4. Tim Sylvia as champ again possibly. This has all the excitement of watching paint dry attatched to it. Tim is the most boring and useless champ they have ever had. He complains to the ref to stand it up if he gets taken down, and holds the opponent against the cage when on the feet. Really exciting stuff Tim. The funny thing is that the UFC will resign him when his contract is up but not Arlovski.

5. I was impressed with Werdum on the weekend, yes, but #1 contender? Not a chance. IMO Arlovski, Kongo and Vera should all be ahead of him eventhough Vera lost to Sylvia.

Basically i feel that the UFC is doing business in a very dyslexic way in the HW division. Let Randy and Arlovski go, but Keep Sylvia. Sounds like a fair trade, right? Anyway, good luck to you wherever you may sign Andre. I loved watching you in the UFC and look forward to seeing you fight wherever you sign. And good luck Nogueira with the title shot. Train hard because if you have ever had to sit through a Sylvia fight you know that having him as champ is gonna be painful. Please to do us a favour by sparing us of that again.[/quote]

I agree with ever sentence of this whole post!!!! Good Sh*t!

1. UFC does not sign Fedor

2. UFC won’t resign Arlovski

3. UFC won’t do a co-promotion with M-1 to bring the most in demand fight in history to us, the fans, and file a lawsuit against their own champ Randy Couture.

4. We now get a chance to see Sylvia become champ again.

5. Werdum, although a good fighter is the #1 contender.

my response to these points…

1. Not being able to sign Fedor was a huge mistake. Also the terms they offered him being made public was not very flattering to their business approach. We got to see how they do business and props to Fedor for saying no to a contract he didn’t like.

2. By not signing Arlovski they are making a huge mistake and are letting him pretty much go to M-1 for a really good fight with Fedor which will happen. Especially if Cuban gets on board. Will you buy that PPV? I will. And the UFC will get nothing from it. Good news for M-1 because this would be their first major event.

3. By not allowing Randy to fight Fedor in a cross-promotion, the UFC is losing major $$$!! This PPV would be Huge money, and it looks asthough when October rolls around and Randy’s contract is up, M-1 is gonna treat him very well financially. The UFC says that Randy owes them 2 more fights, but why then is there a time span until October? This will apparently be up to the judge to decide. Either way, this fight will happen.

4. Tim Sylvia as champ again possibly. This has all the excitement of watching paint dry attatched to it. Tim is the most boring and useless champ they have ever had. He complains to the ref to stand it up if he gets taken down, and holds the opponent against the cage when on the feet. Really exciting stuff Tim. The funny thing is that the UFC will resign him when his contract is up but not Arlovski.

5. I was impressed with Werdum on the weekend, yes, but #1 contender? Not a chance. IMO Arlovski, Kongo and Vera should all be ahead of him eventhough Vera lost to Sylvia.

Basically i feel that the UFC is doing business in a very dyslexic way in the HW division. Let Randy and Arlovski go, but Keep Sylvia. Sounds like a fair trade, right? Anyway, good luck to you wherever you may sign Andre. I loved watching you in the UFC and look forward to seeing you fight wherever you sign. And good luck Nogueira with the title shot. Train hard because if you have ever had to sit through a Sylvia fight you know that having him as champ is gonna be painful. Please to do us a favour by sparing us of that again.

werdum should be at the very least one big win away over a top contender before he is considered. arlovski should square off against vera, or kongo. hopefully when cro cop gets back he will be his old self (his loss to kongo might have had something to do with being kneed in the balls like 5 times, just maybe)

hopefully lesner lives up to the hype. and hopefully mir is back to the fighter he was before his accident. that would at least add some much needed depth to the division.

“It’s out of my hands,” White said. “He’s got a half million of my money. He can fight. He can fight if he wants to. We’ll keep it (an interim title) forever. Believe me, we’ll hold on forever.”

That’s just crazy talk if you ask me. The UFC, which filed a lawsuit against Couture earlier this week, is likely only keeping the title around Couture’s proverbial waist solely for legal maneuvering and not because White is nostalgic.

Also, was it just me, or was the fine print during vignettes during last night’s UFC 80 telecast that clarified Tim Sylvia vs. Rodrigo Nogueira’s match at UFC 81 was for the interim title pretty much buried? I saw the words “heavyweight” and “title” pretty clearly but “interim” was almost microscopic.
I understand why the UFC plans on keeping the heavyweight title as interim for an extended duration but it doesn’t mean I have to like it. The prospect of the the winner of Nogueira vs. Sylvia being just an interim champion for a protracted period of time just sucks.

And yes, I realize “interim” is merely a technicality and whoever wins that match will be the UFC heavyweight champ for all intents and purposes but isn’t White the same guy who was just quoted in an interview with SI.com that he still believes that MMA is pure? Well, what’s pure about having an interim champion with no end?