“I remember my stomach feeling like I swallowed a brick,” Jackson recalled in 2007. “I still, to this day, think that somebody poisoned my room service or something like that. I was happy that it was my biggest paycheck to date, but I know they brought me there to lose. They made me lose all this weight when Pride didn’t even have weight classes. I knew there was no way I could win. But I knew I couldn’t turn back and not fight. I said, ‘I’ve got to go out there and put on the best show possible and do my best so I could at least make a name for myself and Pride would have me back.’
“I don’t want the public to think that I’m afraid of him, if Overeem doesn’t want to wait for New year’s eve or some other date next year to fight me. If he doesn’t believe I don’t get to choose my opponent and that maybe Dream doesn’t want us to fight on New year then he can come to Zagreb next weekend and we can fight in my cage with neutral referees.”
We’ll set up accommodation for him and his team and Nova TV can set up a live coverage of the fight which could be seen on the internet around the globe.” “Should he not show up I urge him to stop calling me out until the rematch happens. He has an opportunity stand behind his words. We’ll fight for honor.”
ロシアのスポーツサイトＳＰＯＲＴＳ．ＲＵよりエメリヤエンコ・アレキサンダーのコメントを紹介します。以前お伝えしたＢ型肝炎疑惑もあり信憑性はかなり怪しいのですが、原文どおりに紹介します（露→英語訳は海外掲示板および機械翻訳から）。 "There is an agreement that on the 24th January show by Affliction and M-1 Global, I will have the rematch with the former UFC champion Josh Barnett. But it is likely that before that I will fight on the traditional New Year's show in Japan. But negotiations on the fight still going on." 「１月２４日のアフリクションとＭ１グローバルの合同興業で、元ＵＦＣチャンピオンのジョシュ・バーネットと再戦する事に合意している。でもその前に日本で恒例の大晦日興業で試合する可能性がある。ただ今は交渉を進めている段階なんでね。」
Our company manages undefeated bantamweight, Joseph Benavidez (8-0). In June 2008, Joseph signed a two fight deal with DREAM. He was to fight Kid Yamamoto at DREAM 5 on July 21, 2008. Kid was subsequently injured and Joseph fought Junya Kudo instead. Per the terms of Joseph's contract, he was to be paid within two weeks of the bout via wire transfer. The transfer did not occur on time. In the later part of August and early September, our company sent several demands for payment. DREAM provided no response to our demands whatsoever. Finally, about 30 days after the agreed due date, the payment was made with no explanation as to the delay.
“I’m afraid Mirko is trying to run from me again,” Overeem recently told Sherdog.com. “FEG wants to make it happen, I would like nothing more than get my hands on him again and I know that the fans would like to see a definite ending as well, so the only obstacle here is Cro Cop. He’s the one who hasn’t signed the contract yet and he’s the one who is trying to avoid fighting me again because he knows that he will get his ass kicked again.”
“I really do (it) for pleasure, just because I have a desire to do it,”
「(サンボは）楽しみの為にやっています。やりたいからやっているだけなんです。」
“I lost to a very good fighter from Bulgaria,” Emelianenko explains. “I missed a throw. Sambo obviously has different rules, and in an MMA fight, if that were to happen, then it wouldn’t have been a big deal, but it’s a different scoring system and unfortunately, I wasn’t able to do certain things that I would do in an MMA ring.”
“Sambo is dear to my heart, but it’s still a hobby,” he explained. “MMA is my profession, and I think in an MMA ring, he would have very little chance against me.”
“Communication kind of broke down with Dana (White) so we talked with Lorenzo,” Fitch told MMARated. “(I) just got off the phone with him and we came to an agreement. We’re going to move ahead and I’ll be back in the UFC. We’re going to sign off on the video game and I’m back. It was never even about the agreement or the contract. It was the approach that we felt Dana was being a little bit hot-headed and was threatening us right off the bat. It didn’t seem like a professional way of doing things.”
"It had to do with Dana (White) calling my managers and immediately saying, 'we need to get him to sign this contract' and 'it's a big favor to me.' Then we asked him, 'Why do you need this contract signed?' "Then we finally asked, after reading through the contract, why can't we negotiate for different terms? Because it asked me for a lifetime contract for the video games, so they would have exclusive rights to use our likeness for these video games and we couldn't go and do any other video games ever again in our lifetime."
"We got the bout agreement returned today and then later tonight they released me from my promotional contract. So at the moment, I'm no longer with the UFC. I'm unattached right now,"
“Kevin is going to focus on light-heavyweight for now. But I can see that Sengoku is having trouble getting opponents for Josh, so it is always a possibility.”
“It’s not just Brazilian fans who are looking forward to a return from Arona. The folks at Affliction have already sent a message through my brother Rogerio [Minotouro]. ‘We would like to hire Arona, we want to see him fighting in our events, you may tell him that – we want to negotiate with Arona now,”
Bas: I don't know where we go from here; I will just have to see what happens. Kimbo's manager Mike is a great manager and who knows maybe he'll go over to Japan and do some pro wrestling before his next fight.