{"id":3348,"date":"2009-07-31T19:14:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T23:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2009-07-31T19:14:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T23:14:15","slug":"mma-news-and-nonnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3348","title":{"rendered":"MMA News and NonNews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z073109fedor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a lot of news for <strong>MMA<\/strong> fans today, but the <strong>biggest news<\/strong> was something that didn&#8217;t happen.\u00a0 First, let&#8217;s look at what did:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tito Ortiz<\/strong> has re-signed with the<strong> UFC<\/strong>.\u00a0 He and <strong>Dana White<\/strong> have sorted out there differences and soon <strong>Ortiz<\/strong> will be back in the cage.\u00a0 His first opponenet has not yet been named.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rich Franklin<\/strong> was scheduled to fight <strong>Dan Henderson<\/strong> at<strong> UFC 103<\/strong>.\u00a0 That has been changed.\u00a0 <strong>Franklin<\/strong> will now face <strong>Victor Belfort<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Henderson<\/strong> is in line to get the next title shot at <strong>Anderson Silva<\/strong>.\u00a0 This should work out better for everyone involved.<\/li>\n<li>And now for what didn&#8217;t happen.\u00a0 <strong>Fedor Emelianenko<\/strong> didn&#8217;t sign with the <strong>UFC<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Fedor<\/strong> was offered more money than he&#8217;s ever made plus a percentage of the ppv sales.\u00a0 He was going to be allowed to wear<strong> M-1 logos<\/strong> [his manager&#8217;s organization] in the cage and on whatever signs, shirts, he wanted.\u00a0 He would still be allowed to fight in <strong>Sambo<\/strong>.\u00a0 The only concession <strong>White<\/strong> wouldn&#8217;t\u00a0concede was to make<strong> M-1<\/strong> a partner with the\u00a0<strong>UFC<\/strong> in the promotion of the fights.\u00a0 If <strong>Fedor<\/strong> is truly the best or even just wants to fight the best, he should have made the deal.\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/news;_ylt=Am1z4YeJ__LLxnV3RyGxUDc9Eo14?slug=ki-fedorufc073109&amp;prov=yhoo&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Iole sums it up perfectly here<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Looks like <strong>Fedor<\/strong> will be sitting on the couch with his &#8220;belts&#8221; for the time being.\u00a0 Bah.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lot of news for MMA fans today, but the biggest news was something that didn&#8217;t happen.\u00a0 First,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}