According to MMA Junkie, M-1 executive Jerry Millen took some shots at Brock Lesnar and the UFC during a recent MMAjunkie.com Radio, upset that Dana White’s organization won’t co-promote a Fedor-Lesnar fight.
“If these guys in the UFC truly wanted to fight Fedor, they'd find a way,” he said. “Come to his training camp. Come to Stary Oskol, and we'll do three, five-minute rounds in the ring or the cage. We'll do it for fun. If you really want to fight him for competition, and it's not about the money for the guys in the UFC, then tell Brock Lesnar to jump his ass on a plane, take a train, and come to Stary Oskol. If these guys really want to fight Fedor, then come to Stary Oskol and lets get it on there for no money.”
“Fedor loves fighting,” Millen said. “He loves the competition of it, and he'll fight any comers. That's why when I hear these jerks say, 'He's ducking the UFC. He's afraid of Brock Lesnar' – Frank Mir's like, 'Oh, he's afraid of us' – give me a break. That's the biggest bunch of bull I've ever heard. Fedor's not afraid to fight anybody.”
It sounds like a lot of bluster, and he clearly has his agenda, but when he gets to the reasons why Fedor doesn’t want to sign with the UFC, he actually makes a little bit of sense.
"The fighters in the UFC are great,” Millen said, “but the UFC, to me, is the WWE model. They want to own the guys.”
“When you sign with the UFC, most guys sign their soul away. Fedor doesn't have to sign his soul away, number one, because he's at the top of the game, and he's doing very well without signing with the UFC. So he doesn't have to sell his soul. He's the kind of guy that won't sell his soul,” he said. “If you ever see Fedor (in the UFC), if that ever happens, it's going to be a very fair deal.”
Hopefully this is all a big pissing contest and the match that fight fans are dying to see will actually, somehow, one day get to happen. But personally… I’m not holding my breath. Millen is right, Fedor seems to be doing just fine without the UFC, and would deserve a whole lot of compensation if he actually signed on for a fight with Lesnar, for which he has very little else to gain.