CFC offers $3mil for Fedor vs. Couture fight

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New MMA Organization Cage Fighting Championships, Inc. (CFC) Offers $3 Million Purse for Randy Couture VS Fedor Emelianenko
DAVIE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Cage Fighting Championships (CFC) Spokesperson Crawford Grimsley announced today, “The CFC will put up a $3,000,000 purse to bring the Couture vs Emelianenko fight to Pay-Per-View. $1,000,000 will be guaranteed to each fighter while the winner takes home an additional cool million, making this the largest single purse for any one MMA fight.”

Grimsley, a former heavyweight boxer who went 12 rounds with big George Foreman for the world title in 1996 said, “I don’t know who set up the current MMA system of sanctioning bodies locking fighters into exclusive long term contracts. I do know who is out to change this system though, we are, the CFC. We are not going to try to reinvent the wheel, but we would like to add a little of the business model that professional boxing has adopted for decades. Can you imagine if professional boxing would not allow champion to fight champion. How many great boxing matches would we have missed?”

Grimsley added, “The UFC has made this sport into what it is today and my hat is off to them, but in the same regard, we feel the sport must allow the best from any league to fight each other when the time is right. We are willing to sit down with any and all parties necessary to make this fight happen including the UFC, Randy Couture, the Gersh Agency, Fedor Emelianenko, his manager Vadim Finkelstein and M-1. It happens everyday in boxing. That’s how you get an undisputed champion. This exclusivity only hurts the sport, the fans, the fighters and the amount of money a fighter can make. We are going to do everything we can to bring this fight and many others currently prohibited. It’s time for the MMA to change for the benefit of the fighters and fans, not the sanctioning bodies.”

The first CFC event took place October 6, 2007 and has already hit the radar of Mark Cuban’s HDNet Network, which only broadcasts in 1080i High Definition, and the hit show Inside MMA. Highlights of the first CFC Middleweight Title fight “Let the Rage Begin” aired this last Friday, October 12, 2007. For airing information, go to www.hd.net and look for the Inside MMA schedule.

About Cage Fighting Championships

The Cage Fighting Championships bring some of the world’s leading professional mixed martial arts professionals into battle inside a 6-foot high caged ring. Headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

[Lexed]

oh snap

[Renesis]

AWWW SHIEET!!! Nice

[QuieTSToRM33]

Nice .... I was at that event in Davie on the 6th .... 2 of my instructors fought and one of them won the middleweight title.

[soo2bhuge]

i doubt it'll happen. both are under contracts with other organizations.

[sphincter]

I'd hit it though... hell for $1million guaranteed, I'd fight both Fedor AND Coture!! of course, I'd lose to each in record time (unless you count running around the ring) but hey, I'd have $1mm

on topic though.. I would LOVE to see this fight and I'm glad someone is stepping up to try to expost this exclusivity bullshit for what it is; a way to keep the PROMOTERS rich, not the fighters.

[Logan13]

I'd hit it though... hell for $1million guaranteed, I'd fight both Fedor AND Coture!! of course, I'd lose to each in record time (unless you count running around the ring) but hey, I'd have $1mm

on topic though.. I would LOVE to see this fight and I'm glad someone is stepping up to try to expost this exclusivity bullshit for what it is; a way to keep the PROMOTERS rich, not the fighters.

For a million, I'd fight them both at the same time.
But in all honesty, this is a BIG step for MMA.

[Renesis]

If I was them I would tell the other organizations to go fvck themselves and cash in on that mil and possible 2 mil.

[Coop77]

Fedor probably won't do it. He'd rather do sambo in russia than make money.

[D-Bo Dre]

Nice .... I was at that event in Davie on the 6th .... 2 of my instructors fought and one of them won the middleweight title.

I heard about that.. Any Idea when the next event will be held??

[J-Dogg]

For some reason I feel the same way Coop,

It seems for some reason that Fedor would be the one not to do it rather than Randy.

[abombing]

Won't happen. Randy would get sued.

[sphincter]

Randy would get sued until his contract is up (I read somewhere it's only 9 months) so 9 months of training for the fight of his life sounds like JUST the ticket if you ask me...

[Pooks]

Would had been nice if they came up with idea like 3 weeks ago, before Fedor was signed by K-1 sounds like just a cheap way to get attention.

[scottish]

Randy has 2 more fights on his contract. He is hoping in 9 months he can go to court and get out of it because "time is of the essense"